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I build the thing—and the system that runs it.

Software, residential construction, digital fabrication and woodwork, from one person. Useful when a project needs those to line up rather than pass between suppliers.

{{EMAIL}} What I take on
  • Web development
  • Residential construction
  • Digital fabrication
  • Craft woodworking

One practice · no handovers

A Three practices

Three ways the disciplines combine.

Each one pairs two trades. The key on every card names the pair.

A timber-clad tiny home with a sedum green roof and roof-mounted solar panels, its sliding glass door opening onto a deck

Software × Building

Connected buildings

Tiny homes and residential work with the smart layer designed in rather than added later. Sensors, controls and remote management get specified alongside the framing.

  • Design and build
  • Device, power and network layout
  • Remote monitoring and updates
  • Handover the owner can actually use

Example A tiny home where heating, power and access are managed from one dashboard.

Laser-cut plywood parts laid out flat, still in their cut sheet

Wood × Machine

Products that ship flat

Wooden furniture sets and laser-cut goods, drawn for the machine and the buyer at once. The design doubles as the cut file, and the instructions are written for a kitchen table.

  • Design for manufacture
  • Laser and CNC cut files, nested
  • Flat-pack assembly instructions
  • Webshop and fulfilment set up

Example DIY furniture kits sold through webshops, from sketch to production run.

A tablet, technical drawings, dividers and callipers on a desk

Software × Team

Tech lead who writes code

Tech Lead and development consultant for governments and businesses, on short fixes and longer programmes. I set the architecture, review the work, and stay close to the code.

  • Technical leadership
  • Architecture and code review
  • Team standards, CI/CD, delivery
  • Tender and vendor support

Example Development lead on public-sector and commercial projects.

Fig. 1 — Workshop

B Why combine them

Projects tend to lose time in the gaps between trades.

Not in the work, in the seams: a spec that reaches site half understood, a drawing redrawn for the machine, an estimate from someone who has not held the tool. Combining the trades removes some of them.

Spec → Site

Fewer handovers
The person writing the specification is often the person on site, so less is lost between the two.

File → Part

The drawing is the instruction
A design drawn for the machine goes to the machine. Fewer steps between an idea and a part.

Tool → Estimate

Grounded estimates
Budgets and timelines from someone who has done the physical work, not only specified it.
C How a job runs

Same four steps, whether it is a kit or a programme.

  1. Step 1

    Scope

    A visit or a call, then a written scope with a price and the known risks.

  2. Step 2

    Prototype

    One small real thing first — a working screen, a test joint, a bench mock-up.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    Fixed scope, and a short weekly note on what moved and anything that changed the estimate.

  4. Step 4

    Hand over

    Source files, cut files and documentation are yours. Support and maintenance if you want it.

Fig. 2 — Build site

D Selected work

Some of what has been built.

Plywood off the laser and the router, doors off the bench, and a deck with the lighting built into it. Every plate opens to the photograph it was cropped from.

Two flat-pack plywood six-bottle carriers on a garden table, the left one with a hop cone cut through its handle panel Full frame

Fig. 3 · Laser

Six-pack carriers

Two versions of the same carrier, one with a hop cone cut through the panel.

A plywood crate holding twelve brown beer bottles upright in cut circular openings Full frame

Fig. 4 · Laser

Twelve-bottle crate

The same tab-and-slot joint, scaled up to a full crate with a centre divider.

A sheet of plywood laser-cut into crate parts — rows of circular bottle openings, slotted panels and curved dividers — all still lying flat in the sheet Full frame

Fig. 5 · Laser

The crate, flat

Every part of the crate nested into one sheet, cut and not yet lifted out.

A brewery's round logo engraved into the plywood front panel of a bottle carrier Full frame

Fig. 6 · Laser

Engraved to order

A customer's own mark engraved into the front panel of a stock carrier.

A CNC router with a full sheet of plywood clamped to the bed, parts already cut and nested across it Full frame

Fig. 7 · CNC

Nested on the bed

Parts laid into one sheet before cutting, which is where the offcuts are won or lost.

A long plywood dining table with a tapered top standing on splayed cross legs Full frame

Fig. 8 · CNC

Dining table

A long tapered top on splayed cross legs, cut from sheet stock.

A three-tier plywood shoe rack with slatted shelves let into combed side panels Full frame

Fig. 9 · CNC

Slatted shoe rack

Three tiers of slats let into combed sides, so the joint is also the shelf support.

A small plywood book bin in a child's room, front-facing picture books stacked in both open sides Full frame

Fig. 10 · CNC

Children's book bin

Double-sided, low enough to reach into, and cut flat so it went up in the room it lives in.

A side table made from a bark-edged log slice resting on curved plywood legs joined by a round stretcher Full frame

Fig. 11 · CNC

Log-slice side table

A sawn log slice on machine-cut legs. One half of it drawn, the other half found.

A large frame-and-panel barn door lying flat on trestles in a timber-framed workshop, with a nailer, chisels and glue standing on it Full frame

Fig. 12 · Joinery

Double barn doors

Made to measure, frame and panel, built flat on the bench before they were hung.

A large two-level timber deck against a black-clad house, with small lights set into the edge of the step and along the perimeter Full frame

Fig. 13 · Build

Deck with smart lighting

Fittings let into the step edge and the perimeter, so the lighting is part of the structure rather than sitting on it.

A newly built barn clad in black timber on a brick plinth, with a white bargeboard gable, a dormer window, exposed rafter tails on timber corbels and two pairs of white glazed double doors Full frame

Fig. 14 · Build

Barn build

Black timber cladding on a brick plinth, exposed rafter tails, glazed double doors: an outbuilding detailed like a house.

E Capability

Two benches, one person.

Desk

  • Web applications and APIs
  • System architecture and technical review
  • Integrations between systems
  • CI/CD, hosting and monitoring
  • Connected devices and remote management

Shop

  • CAD and CAM, design for manufacture
  • Laser cutting and CNC routing
  • Cabinetmaking, joinery and finishing
  • Residential construction and fit-out
  • Prototyping and small production runs
F Contact

Send a drawing, a brief, or a half-formed idea.

No contact form. Mail or call and you reach me directly.

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