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Phil Archer

There are many professionals with whom I share my name: among them a golfer in Warwickshire, a musician/artist in Norwich, a journalist in Houston… and a retired farmer in Ambridge. I make no claim to share any of their skills, but this is where I make my own contribution to the Web.

I do two quite separate jobs: one for a Greek company, i-sieve Technologies, and one for a global standards body, W3C. Despite nominally having offices in both Athens and Sophia Antipolis (near Nice), I work from home in Ipswich (that's the original one in Britain, not one of the various towns around the world in places like Massachusetts and Queensland that share the same name). Apart from when I'm travelling to conferences and such like, this makes it relatively easy to negotiate the path between work and family life.

Before taking up my present roles I have had a varied career path that has included work in local radio, advertising, countryside conservation and online child safety. I still keep a hand in most of these activities so there's quite a mixture of material on this Web site. If you want the full gory details please see my CV

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I try to maintain two reasonably active online identities: one professional, one personal. Please note, never talk about my family online except in the most vague terms. In particular, I never, ever talk about my children (and never mention their names). They will create their own identity in their own time