Martyn is 35 years old and is a senior systems administrator at Memset Ltd (you can see him riding his electric bike on the Greener tab on the front page of Memset’s web site). Martyn’s focus and specialities include anything and everything related to with “the cloud”, including Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS.
Previous to working at Memset, Martyn has spent six years working in the film and television post-production industry for The Moving Picture Company and Imagineer Systems as a production systems administrator and systems engineer respectively.
He has worked on a total of 42 film and television productions at his time at MPC, and had been responsible for shooting the promotional video for Imagineer Systems featuring interviews with prominent members of the visual effects community that was shown back at NAB in 2008.
In his spare time he is learning to produce his own short stories and screenplays. Occasionally he interviews people. Between 2008-2010 Martyn was a Top Contributor for the Google Apps Help Forums, but has now retired from those duties.
Martyn is a staunch anti-piracy advocate, but believes the current laws provided by the likes of the DMCA, the DEA and the forthcoming SOPA act are incredibly damaging to both consumers and IP rights holders alike and are subject to abuse. He also believes that ISPs and web hosts must not be held liable for arbitrary web-site blocking due to piracy, and that the entertainment lobbyists who propose these measures are complete technology luddites who cannot or will not change their outmoded business models or “get with the times”.
Martyn can be contacted via email here.
