About
Tom Glenn was born in 1989, in Blackpool (UK) and currently lives in a small town called Alnwick (About 30 miles from Newcastle).
He lives with his family consisting of his mum Jo, Dad Rich, brother Jake (Who’s just as mad as he is), baby sister Ruby and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Maverick!
Tom has recently moved out of his parent’s home and moved into a new home with his girlfriend (Donna).
His interests consist of Web Development (in XHTML, PHP & MySQL and more recently ASP & ASP.NET), Software Development (in C# & Objective-C), Gaming (mainly MMORPGs and Point n’ Clicks) and spending time with his friends, family and girlfriend.
Since the age of 13, Tom has been developing websites for many different purposes. His first glimpse of “fame”(?) was when he created a website for a local ‘Save Little Marton Mill’ campaign and was then interviewed on a local radio station for it. Since then, Tom has decided to take his Web Development hobby a step further, by plunging himself into the wonderful world of PHP & MySQL, which he has now been developing in for around 5 years.
At the age of 16, Tom began his own Web Development business called Hazviz Web Creations which he ran in his spare time.
He then began working for a local ecological firm called Marishal Thompson as an Assistant Systems Developer, which included the creation and upkeep of the firms many websites and software applications. Aswell as on-site technical support for it’s members of staff.
After two years at Marishal Thompson, Tom left the job to finish his software development degree at Northumbria University. In July 2009, Tom graduated from Northumbria University attaining a BSc (Hons) 2:1, the second highest grade possible.
In January 2010, Tom was re-employed by Marishal Thompson and will now be taking on large bespoke software development projects for external companies such as Halifax and Alton Towers.
In his spare time, Tom now toys around with the creation of iPhone and Mac applications, .NET windows applications and games development. Tom is also the founder of MmmCocoa.com, a site dedicated to providing Screencasts/Tutorials for iPhone and Mac software development.