About me
Hi, I'm Jon.
I live in south-west London, and have spent most of my life doing things with music and computers, sometimes simultaneously. I have run an IT support company, worked as a freelance IT consultant, and had jobs at a recruitment consultancy, a market research company and a recording studio. At the moment I am lucky enough to be working at Tate doing fun things with their various systems.
I am passionate about technology in all its forms and consider myself very fortunate to have grown up at roughly the same pace as home computers; my first one was a TI-99/4A and I've owned or used just about every major model since then. I thoroughly enjoy messing around with PCs and am rarely happier than I am when spending an entire day getting my computer to automate a task which would otherwise have taken me five minutes to accomplish by hand.
My other great obsession is music, in just about all its forms. I am convinced that I will eventually hear the perfect performance of Beethoven's 9th symphony, but while I've come close on occasion I haven't found it yet. That doesn't stop me booking tickets for it every time it's on.
I treat myself with nice food and nice wine. I particularly like white Burgundies from around Montrachet, but generally I can't afford those so I usually end up a little further up the road in Saint-Aubin; I buy far too much wine but at least that gave me an excuse to build a database to catalogue it all. I love to cook but couldn't imagine doing it professionally.
I support West Ham United so must have done something pretty bad in a previous life. I am frantically trying to work out what that was so I can avoid doing it again this time round.
One day I will open a beach bar on a tropical island. You will be very welcome to come and enjoy a beer with me.
You can find me on LinkedIn where I am very serious and professional, on Spotify where I listen to lots of obscure electronic music from the 1990s, and on Instagram where I post pictures of wine bottles, art, and Mildred the Tate Modern cat.
You can email me at jon@jonhaworth.com.