My Name is Bruce Taylor, I was born on the 10th January 1974 in Hanover Germany to English parents, my father being a member of the British armed forces serving a tour of duty in Germany. I lived in Germany until I was 4, when we moved back to the UK. I spent a year in Tidworth, before my Father left the army and the family moved to Bideford in North Devon. My sister and I spent the rest of our childhood in Bideford, a small rural market town near the coast. Our house stood on a hill at the edge of the town over looking the town and river estuary.

I attended the local school, Bideford Collage where I took and passed 10 GCSE and 2 A levels, as well as studying for BTEC Diplomas in Agriculture and Computing. I then moved to Bristol in 1993 to study for a Degree in manufacturing systems engineering. This being a broad based Engineering degree it gave me a good all round knowledge of all aspects of Engineering, including Mechanical, Electronic, Fluid and Computer Engineering.

After the degree I started work for Stage Electrics, an entertainment equipment rental company, where I specialised in digital computer controlled lighting systems, during this time the digital control systems became ever more complex and often had parts or whole PC systems within them, this gave me plenty of practice at rebuilding computers and installing software.

I have always been interested in computers having talked my father in to buying me an Amstrad computer at the age of 12, and then a PC some years later. I always found great joy in upgrading my own and friends computer systems and always tried to make the systems run at the best possible speed on a limited budget.

As I learnt more about computer systems this led me to a point that I wanted to expand my knowledge of computers and networks. So in the April 2000 I joined The Business Resource, a small IT support company in Bristol.

Being a small dedicated team, giving good support and consultancy, the company quickly took on more clients and expanded the IT system, servers and networks of all it's clients. Specializing in small companies with upto 50 users, enabled TBR to focus on giving real support to the users, and in effect becoming the in an house IT department for its clients.

While gaining experience with servers and network systems, I continued to work on and gain knowledge in personal computers, as well as laptops and hand handheld computers.

To gain further knowledge and further my experience I bought an Apple Mac G4 with OS9 and OSX installed. While being involved with IBM compatible PC's for a number of years Mac's have always been fairly specialised and quite rare, in companies with PC systems, it was therefore a great opportunity to learn. Having worked with the Mac at home for a number of years this has lead to me being able to support clients with Mac systems both using OSX 10 and OSX9 (to a limited extent).