Ian Jowett was 11 when he was gifted a Vtech-2000 for christmas, he found a vb excercise in the back of the manual, and tought himself software development. Click here to view more information on Ian Jowett.
After completing a Btec in computer studies, at Tameside College, he has continued to work for various technology companies, in a software development capacity.
He is an experienced developer, always continuing to develop his skillset. Ian has a vast array of experience in many sectors, and has delivered software solutions
into the healthcare, HR, financial and telecom sectors.
When he's not working on software, Ian is a photographer and film producer.
OnlyIan.com is a creative studio, that allows Ian to combine his 20 years skillset into one offering.
It always makes sense to have inspiration and there are some Microsoft influencers and speakers whom have been in the field for a long time, and are good sources of information and learning, below are some influential developers.
Scott Guthrie is Executive Vice President of the Cloud and AI group in Microsoft. He leads the teams that deliver Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub,.NET, HoloLens etc
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee.
This isn't developer related, but it is a cool blog I found of a fellow traveller, it's a really clean site.