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We are IT professionals with an unashamed passion for understanding how things work.
Matt 'Mr T' Thornton
Founder, DeveloperMatt’s biggest (and most irritating) asset is his attention to detail. Whether it’s spotting bugs in code or spotting grammatical errors in other people’s work, Matt will find it and tell you about it.
Usually with an obnoxious smirk on his face.
After a long spell at University honing his analytical skills, gaining a PhD in remote sensing and computer science, Matt has spent the last 15 or so years applying them in Guernsey.
Don’t interrupt him if he’s in the zone - usual signs are air drumming, fixated stare on random object and/or swearing prolifically - unexpected behaviour may will result.
Trivia: Matt recovered The One Ring from Mount Doom and now stores it in his beard.
Marc 'Bev' Beavan
Founder, DeveloperMarc is living proof that delivering IT solutions should be fun. With no shortage of inappropriate jokes and a penchant for punishing people who leave their computers unattended, Marc’s no holds barred approach means things get done; and they get done right.
(Sometimes even first time.)
With 15+ years’ experience spanning London and Guernsey, Marc never shies away from a challenge.
In fact, if you need something doing, tell him it’s impossible and watch him prove you wrong, whilst drawing “space rockets” on things, especially your notepad.
Trivia: Marc was the 6th member of Take That
Amy 'John' Madden
DeveloperAmy is only 4'1" but can throw an american football more than 900m which is pretty impressive and really handy in our line of work.
Fortunately her insane talents don’t end there. Not only can she write some well nice code, has somehow escaped years of private banking and regulatory reporting with only mild PTSD, but she’s also got an encyclopedic knowledge of champagne-based cocktails. Great!
Trivia: Amy holds the Guinness world record for most spins on an office chair without chundering - 94.
Jason 'Debbie' Magee
DeveloperJase is a full-on code monkey with an indefatigable taste for biscuits. He often sports unnecessarily tight ball-hugging jogging bottoms. No joke - it’s been known to cause power outages.
He particularly likes systems that are protected by 18 layers of VPN / security / authentication and modifying systems that connect to 10 other systems, none of which can be easily tested. He definitely won’t whinge about it at any available opportunity.
But he’s pretty handy with Blazor, so we let him off. Just don’t leave your foods unattended.
Trivia: was a stunt double in The Goonies.
Actual trivia: he does that there data.gg.
More actual trivia: he’s barred from the Number 19 golf course bar after ordering them to prepare 23 piña coladas.
Sophie 'Gidget' Lucassen
Marketing Manager, Future DeveloperWe popped “Passionate about building seamless brand experiences with a human-centred, creative, and tech-forward mindset” in to Google Translate and it told us that meant Sophie is right gooder at marketing stuff which is good because we have lots of crap and we’re stuff at marketing it.
Or words to that effect. Sophie joins us as our first non-developer-person (albeit with an active interest in learning what we do) which could easily a tear a hole in the delicate Cortex-space-time-continuity. Which is pretty exciting!
Trivia: Before moving to Guernsey, Sophie had never seen water.
Cyndi
Administrative ImplementerCyndi is the heart of the organisation and she’s involved in everything. Whether it’s sending emails, or responding to emails, or handling social media or just generally being a help around the place, Cyndi is there.
There’s nothing to be confused about. Other than she may have used to be a squirrel.
Unless you don’t receive the Cortex email newsletter. In which case, yep, this could be confusing. It’s a metaphor.
Trivia: Cyndi auditioned for EastEnders but didn’t get it because she refused to say ‘you slag.’
Bob
FacilitiesBob crops up in many places. Usually Git commits and demo portals but is also responsible for dusting off our disk arrays. He also fixes the appliances that Marc breaks.
Trivia: Bob is a nickname, that’s actually short for Kate.