About bpodr > Who we are

We’re not a big company. We like it that way.

When a job means we need to be bigger temporarily, we just call on experts we know and trust to work on the other bits that need doing.

So, for the moment, bpodr is Adam Austin and Graham Stewart.

Adam Austin

Adam’s involvement in the web began in 1997 and his passion for uncovering the inner workings of the internet led to him working as a freelance web developer for over 7 years. More recently, Adam has been involved in developing, maintaining, and promoting web sites for businesses of all sizes. At one point, he even managed to do this remotely by working on web-based projects while living abroad.

Adam now revels in using the Internet to help solve problems for businesses in the UK. By combining his skills in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), usability, web standards, strategy, and on-line marketing with the knowledge gained – and retained – from his time as a code monkey, Adam is able to convey and demonstrate with conviction how powerful a tool the web can be for businesses that embrace it.

Graham Stewart

Graham began working in IT as a programmer in 1986. By 1990, he was specialising in systems design and building enterprise administration systems for Reuters in Europe. In 1991 he was posted to Singapore, where he spent five years leading design, development, and implementation teams across Asia. He went on-line around the time NCSA released the Mosaic browser. In 1996 his team built the first intranet for the company – serving the training department. Graham returned to the UK at the end of 1996 and, in 1997, became a freelance consultant, working in both the UK and in the USA.

In the last ten years, Graham has followed the dual paths of IT consultancy and copywriting. In the latter role, he has put his technical knowledge to good use in B2B marketing material for clients such as Vodafone, BT, Hitachi, and Microsoft. Increasing involvement in blogging and web site development has meant that Graham has often been able to combine his skills in the same project. His IT and marketing communications experience lead him to believe that the tools and technologies now available offer companies a great opportunity for dramatically improving the way they reach their channel partners, distributed workforce, and their customers.

bpodr
Adam and Graham were contracted separately to work on a number of projects throughout 2006 and 2007. A number of casual conversations made it clear that both felt strongly about the business potential of the emerging ‘web 2.0’ technologies. At the same time, both were frustrated by a common element of most of the projects they were involved in: one the web site was built, that was seen as the end of the project. Both Adam and Graham realised that this should really be the start. With that thought, bpodr was born.