Formerly trained in diesel-electric, hydraulic and pneumatic systems for the railways, today I work in the electronics industry as a production engineer, scrubbing BOMs for regulations such as RoHS and REACH(SVHC).

My main interest is in GNU/Debian, internet infrastructure (legacy and block-chains), 3D printing by combining COTS hardware with printed plastics, the local (industrial, manufacturing) supply chain.

My main project is called the Factory 4.0 Open Initiative, LLC. (FourOh-LLC), providing a GNU and OSS service stack to help prepare a production environment migrate towards Industry 4.0. If you are a small shop or a home-based business please join the project and we are going to help install, administer our shared https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extranet infrastructure. We have no “membership fees”, instead we ask our members to implement the FourOh-LLC service stack for their own purposes - then share some of the resulting capacity with the rest of us in DNS, LDAP, MySQL /PostGRES (high availability) clusters.

OSM is at the core of the FourOh-LLC infrastructure and data warehouse, in combination with Placekey, supply chain data, business logic and other non-proprietary, non-private assets. We are not building just some “products” or “solutions”: we are building THE local talent pool, which may then implement whatever is need.

I am not a programmer or a graphic artist, I cannot contribute to the development of this web or to any other relevant software. I am just a user of all these wonderful tools, and many thanks to all who create, evolve and share them!