Some things I want you to read are my blog (Goldfish Chronicles) and my resume/cv (pdf).
Born in the UK, studied in London (Imperial College) and University of Kent, moved to Kentucky and then to Seattle.
Amazon, where I organize open source.
The Apache Software Foundation, as a director, VP, member, infrastructure helper, Legal committee member and as a committer to Commons, Jakarta, Roller, Maven, Struts and Tomcat.
OSJava.org, OpenSymphony Quartz and JIRA Outlet.
Draft reviewer for Shawn Bayern's JSTL in Action (Manning), George Reese's Java Database Best Practices (O'Reilly), Harshad Oak's Pro Jakarta Commons (Apress), and Kito Mann's JSF in Action (Manning).