User:SteveMcBill

2008-12-19T00:46:11Z

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==My Background==

I have been 'interested' in wildlife since I was 4 years old but my interest did not become 'serious' until I reached 30 when I joined the [http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces/ Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society].

Work wise - I started in the lab of a hospital and then moved to chemical research. Following this I worked with the Department of Employment as a programmer for 25 years (much of it managing IT projects for the Dept.) - it was virtually all mainframe in Cobol, Plan, Fortran, Filetab and a few other languages.

Home IT interest led me into music and graphics programming for fun and thence to developing the initial website for the Cheshire Wildlife Trust during a boring Xmas period in 1996.

Since October 2000 I have managed the local biodiversity records center for the Cheshire region - [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd]. As at October 2006 we have 1.6 million species records available online for the public to search and map.

Who knows what will happen for/to me from here on in ??

==My Major Interests==

- General Entomology
- Symphyta (Sawflies)
- Carabidae
- Invertebrate Survey
- Terrestrial Mollusca
- Identification
- Survey
- Micro-fungi
- Identification
- Survey
- Photography (mainly digital nowadays)
- Natural History photography for website usage
- Photography for sale on Micro-Stock Sites
- Ragtime and Country Blues Acoustic Guitar
- Playing - especially steel-strung flat-tops
- Listening to old Country Blues players (e.g. Blind Blake, etc.)
- Information Technology (IT)
- Website design and implementation
- Database design
- Making use of accumualted data
- Making use of the technology to allow simple use of the data
- IT standards across the web and in other areas.

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