About Mr Ports


Mr Ports used to work as a Senior Technology Advocate in IBM Lotus Software where he was a leading expert in Messaging, Collaboration, Unified Communications and Enterprise Social Networking.


This is me doing the day job - presenting geeky stuff about collaboration


This is Mr Ports' family


















Don't mess with me or I'll shoot you (not really)













This is me and my best friend Matt



















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I'm a twin. This is my sister and I when we were small















This is my little daughter when she was small
 

I used to be a Cub Scout. I'm the chap on the right (Ian Atkin is on the left - thx for the picture mate)

















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I have also been in a couple of beat combos. This was my first real band, Crazy Uncle. We were the cream of East Yorkshire (in my head)

















 

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This is my current band, Sideburner. Although we haven't played live for a little while.




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