David Patterson

Portsmouth, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Founder Director at KnowNow Information Ltd.

Technology / Software / Internet

I guess I'm a tinkerer. Always taking apart new technologies or learning new languages. Trying to get something familiar to do something new. The development of microsensors and the Internet of Things has enabled me to make my hobby my job. When my first company was one of the casualties of the dot-com boom I went to work for IBM to regain enough capital to start again. I didn't plan on enjoying myself as much as I did for 10 years. IBM gave me the freedom to talk to customers about the things that interested me. In particular, the development of their Smart Cities strategy gave me a topic that I really believed in and enabled me to gain enough experience to begin to see where I could fo...