{"id":2,"date":"2008-02-06T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-01-04T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:12:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By profession I work within IT, helping companies build future proof strategies and technology architectures.\u00a0 At the moment I&#8217;m working for <a href=\"http:\\\\wsp.com\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">WSP<\/a>, a large engineering consultancy group.\u00a0 What drives me is how technology can make a difference to people by making their lives easier, more productive or just more fun!<\/p>\n<p>My background is in technology solution design and architecture, more on the infrastructure side than app development.\u00a0 Although I started off specialising in large desktop deployment and management projects, this lead onto Active Directory work, Unified Communications projects and cloud migrations.<\/p>\n<p>My current day job is architecture focused and sees me leading a team that works with business to plan the digital architecture for the company over the next couple of years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fascinating work in its own geeky way, and just what I want to be doing.\u00a0 Though I do miss the instant satisfaction of getting a script working!<\/p>\n<p>Outside the office I spend far too much time thinking about cars, and get my petrolhead fixes with my much loved (but sadly under-used) Lotus Elise.<\/p>\n<p>I work between Central London and Guildford in the UK, and live in West Sussex by the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact me on:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tombasham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tombasham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By profession I work within IT, helping companies build future proof strategies and technology architectures.\u00a0 At the moment I&#8217;m working for WSP, a large engineering consultancy group.\u00a0 What drives me is how technology can make a difference to people by making their lives easier, more productive or just more fun! My background is in technology &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}