Chris Anderton
As far back as Chris can remember he always wanted to run his own company. Chris was an early adopter of the internet: his first websites went live in 1995. Chris’ working life began in the e-business department of IBM where he worked on a number of high profile sites, including The Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Chris’ corporate exposure was furthered by joining Accenture as a Global Architecture and Core Technology consultant, where he worked on enterprise integration and legacy system replacement with intranet technologies.
In 2006 Chris decided that he'd nibbled enough of the corporate pie. He realised his ambition and set up TheWebFellas with a vision to creating best of breed web applications. He knew it was where he belonged - it meant being somebody rather than one employee in a sea of nobodies. Realising one man would not be enough to change the world, Chris also invited his brother Rob (a kick ass coder) to join him. He did and TheWebFellas were born.
Rob Anderton
Rob started developing software shortly after he learned to walk and like many kids growing up in the 80’s he was often found in front of his trusty MSX or his brother’s ZX Spectrum typing in BASIC and machine code until his fingers were numb.
Rob’s professional career began at a small IT firm where he quickly progressed to the role of development team leader. During this time he was involved in a number of large scale projects primarily using Microsoft technologies for clients including The Apple Store and B&Q. After six months working on the trading systems at London brokerage Tullett Prebon, Rob became hooked on financial trading and decided to take a break from full time coding to make millions from the markets.
In 2006 Rob was ready to return to his roots so when Chris asked him to get involved in his new venture the timing couldn’t have been better. Rob is TheWebFellas’ resident Ruby on Rails guru as well as being an enthusiastic supporter of web standards and semantic markup.
Michael Jerome
Michael joined TheWebFellas in 2007 where he is responsible for meeting, greeting and generally caring for our lovely clients.
Something of an industry heavyweight, Michael brings a booty of experience from working with start-ups, mid-sized and large businesses. Michael has worked in both technical and pre-sales roles and has been involved in projects for a wide range of clients including AstraZeneca, NatWest, ICI and even the British Ministry of Defence.
Michael is a devotee of accessibility and open standards on the web.
Jez Andrews
During his career Jez has worked in both technical and project management roles and has extensive experience in business transformation, systems integration, application management and information delivery.
Jez was involved in the implementation of intranet technologies at IBM and the creation of a new internet sales channel at a leading UK retailer. Before joining TheWebFellas Jez was the lead developer at one of the world’s premier financial services providers where he directed the creation of an institutional investor information product.
Jez is a keen advocate of web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to facilitate collaboration and dialogue.
About the site
Powered by Rick Olsen’s superb Mephisto web publishing system (which we’ve contributed a number of patches to) and riding on Rails 2.0 the site uses Dan Webb’s excellent code highlighter, Sven Fuchs’ ultra-fast tag cloud, Paul Ingles’ elegantly simple Flickr photo stream and a number of our own custom plugins.
Rob spent many hours hand-crafting Liquid templates to create an XHTML site that not only uses an elastic layout (go on resize the text – you know you want to!) but is also bursting with semantic and microformatted goodness. The site should look good in any modern browser and should otherwise degrade gracefully.