the team

Our dynamic and expanding team consists of:

Simon Brook

Peter Osborne

Rob Crim

Modi Siotos

Elly Brook

Simon Brook - Director

Simon is Osborne Brook’s technical director. Simon’s background is in Mathematics and Philosophy – allowing him to both think outside the box and communicate his innovative ideas to clients and stakeholders.

Simon‘s strength lies in flexible and innovative approach to technical problems. He is skilled at seeing new ways clients can make use of the internet.

Peter Osborne - Director

Peter is Osborne Brook’s director of usability and design – he dreams in XHTML and CSS. He has a cross-discipline background, having obtained a Ph.D in Environmental Chemistry in 1995 before working as a Member of Faculty in Modern History at Oxford University (1996-9).

He has also worked as a Research Editor (OUP) and as an associate lecturer in Technology with the Open University and is still (slightly bizarrely) a consultant in sustainable design to a Japanese construction company. Peter’s strength is his ability to work with and understand the needs of stakeholders and partners from diverse backgrounds.

Robert Crim - Lead Programmer

Robert, as far as we can tell, thinks in code (mostly Ruby wrapped in a Sinatra framework). His instinctive grasp of emerging technologies and languages helps keep us on the ‘bleeding edge’ of web design and application development.

Robert has a background in engineering science. Before coming to Osborne Brook, worked at The Planet’s data centres in Texas as a sysop.

Modi Siotos - Web designer, SEO specialist

Modi helps clients with natural search engine optimisation (SEO) by analysing their websites and identifying SEO opportunities within their markets. Before joining Osborne Brook, he worked for a software company in Amsterdam and did an MSc in Internet applications development at Brighton University.

Modi has also worked as an external lecturer for Brighton university in both, the Computer Science and ICT departments.His major interests in IT include organic SEO, web analytics services, accessibility and usability – using open source applications (Wordress, Joomla etc).

Elly Brook - Office Manager

Elly is Osborne Brook’s Office Manager/Finance/HR person - otherwise known as Director of Nagging. She has a background in EFL teaching and project management (though not simultaneously) and loves nothing better than making order out of chaos. Once she’s finished organizing the creative brainboxes at Osborne Brook she goes home to the really difficult bit of trying to organize her three children