User:jezmck

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Life History

I was christened Jeremy Charles McKean, and am now known as Jez (or jezmck online, and previously as jazzle).

I was born on November 17th, 1981 in Reading, Berkshire, England.

I grew up in Shiplake, Oxfordshire.

I attended

• Shiplake CE Primary School,
• Crosfields (in Shinfield, Berkshire),
• 'Teddies' (in Oxford),
• Shiplake College,

and graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2004 with an BSc Honours Degree in Computer Information Systems.

I then lived in Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside and worked in St Helens until 2008.

I then lived in Whiteley, Hampshire until 2010 and have since moved up the road to live in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire.

I work for Powder Blue in Martyr Worthy near Winchester.

My official CV is available online at jezmckean.com.

Web

I have run jazzle.co.uk as a freelance business in my spare time since 1999.

jezmckean.com is my main domain.

Subdomains:

• The Sketchup Components Collection is the best known. (see SketchUp)
• My blog, 'Recursive'.

I worked for Bitopia.

I now work for Powder Blue.

I'm a regular at the bit-tech forums.

I consider myself an advanced LAMP developer.

Misc

• I am three quarters English and a quarter Scottish - my paternal grandfather - hence my Scottish surname.

• As a McKean, I have roots in Clan MacDonald of Glencoe.

• I may be a descendent of Thomas McKean under whose 'presidency' the British surrendered in 1781.

• There is a McKean's law.

• Jeż means hedgehog in Polish, as demonstrated by the Jeż Coat of Arms.

It's Jež in Croatian and Slovenian, and ježek in Czech

Ježek in Croatian means shudder.

• I might one day visit McKean Island, one of The Phoenix Islands, but it is roughly the opposite side of the planet from here and its main export was guano!