Ted has been a member of HM Revenue & Customs, Criminal Investigations, Digital Forensics Group in Nottingham as a digital forensics investigator since July 2002. His work involves the forensic analysis of digital seizures in relation to serious criminal direct tax and VAT frauds, drug and tobacco offences, obscene images, fuel and all other HMRC assigned matters.

He has been involved with, and interested in, computers since he was a teenager when he used to fiddle about with an old IBM 8086 and MSDOS 5.

He joined the Civil Service in 1998 having graduated from university with a BS(c) (Hons) degree in Geography & Environmental Science.

In 2010 he completed an MS(c) in Forensic Computing at the highly regarded "Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT)" faculty at Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UK. His final year thesis was a study of eCryptfs - the enterprise level cryptographic filesystem for Linux - and its implementation into Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.10 and 9.04. Part of that study involved the development of a live capture tool for capturing decrypted content of eCryptfs encrypted data. Development continues.

He joined the F3 Committee in 2005 and designed and built the F3 web site. This is it, which he now administers and maintains.

He is an enthusiastic supporter and user of open-source software. Domestically he now uses Fedora Linux and all things open-source. Between 2005-2010 he used Ubuntu Linux. Please note that he does not proclaim to be a Linux expert!

He likes to write Python code now and then (such as a small app to decode the dates and times from the history files of the BT Yahoo! Browser) as well as some PHP although more recently his photography interests have become more time consuming.

Alongside his day job, he is a keen semi-pro photographer who specializes in photography of dogs, but he also photographs weddings and a variety of other subjects. Unusually for the digital age, Ted photographs using both digital and film formats having his own darkroom where he produces traditional black & white prints.

Aged 33, he is married with a daughter and owns three rescued dogs. He is the creator of Lost-Doggies UK (www.lost-doggies.com) where (with over 4,000 members) he has helped re-unite lost and stolen dogs since 2001, as well as advertising rescued dogs available for rehoming.

Until electricty prices got so stupidly high, he used to volunteer several of his home computers to The World Community Grid project where they number-crunched day and night trying to find cures for cancer. They all ran Linux, but electricity costs caused a halt to that particular endeavor!

He also dabbles with Koi Ponds and Bonsai Trees.