Close, Andy

Andy Close was born the son of a farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, England, when the word 'bucolic' actually had a meaning. But a farmers' life wasn't to be, because at just the right moment someone invented 'programmable' computers that were smaller than a house and didn't smell of cow shit ... and he was hooked. With one of the very first degrees in Computer Science under his belt, he proceeded to hack (carve would imply a degree of finesse) out a career in IT. He's programmed everything from device drivers to mainframes and worked on some of the largest (and usually disastrous) commercial IT p...