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Daniel Hook - Managing Director

Daniel Hook

Daniel has been involved in programming professionally for the last 4 years. During this time he has written in C++, C#, VB.NET, VB 6 and SQL, supplying products to the medical and telecoms industries and, more recently, to the education sector. He has been involved with the structural database development for a Content Management System for Imperial College London and has worked on routing optimisation software using ILOG technologies.

Over the last 18 months he has moved away from core programming and has specialised in systems analysis:

John Fearns - Software Architect

Dr John Fearns

John's computing interests began with games programming for the BBC microcomputer in the early eighties, and later the development of general relativistic ray-tracing software on the Acorn Archimedes and PC, before joining the programming world professionally in 2002.

John's efforts now concentrate on:

Marko Ivin - Senior Programmer

Dr Marko Ivin

Marko has been involved in complex programming for over 10 years - from a large-scale simulation in quantum field theory to a DVD rentals website. Since finishing his PhD in theoretical physics in 2003, Marko has concentrated on database-driven web programming.

His recent projects have included:

Philip Parkin - Senior Programmer

Dr Philip Parkin

Philip has been involved with programming, mainly in an academic context, since the early nineties; from simulating the paths of photons orbiting black holes through to modelling phase transitions in Bose-Einstein condensates as part of his PhD.

Since joining Symplectic, Philip has worked on: