About
So, who is Ben Milleare?
In short, I’m the 29 year old Technical Director of a leading SEO Agency currently living and working in Essex, UK. I’ve been in the Internet industry for well over 10 years now professionally, and a whole lot longer recreationally. My first taste of the web was via a free Compuserve CD on my trusty 386 back in around 1995/96. Prior to that I used to hang out on various dial-up BBS and the odd hacked VMS ;). Once online I soon found IRC and the electronic dark arts and the rest, as they say, is history.
I have been involved in SEO for as long as I can remember, having first worked for my current employer many years ago when the company first formed, leaving to do my own thing, and now coming full circle and rejoining the company back in 2008 to head up their Corporate SEO team. I was promoted to Technical Director in January 2010 where I head up the service and R&D teams, working to improve staff skill-sets and managing various software projects.
I’m a PHP developer at heart and generally code web applications using CakePHP, having fallen in love with the framework back in 2005 while it was still pre-1.0. Recently I’ve been waiting for the first stable release of Lithium (#li3) and also dabbling with the awesome power that is node.js. In the past I’ve worked as a Head of Engineering, a Lead PHP Developer for the worlds largest publisher of fine books in Central London, and also as a freelance ‘jack of all trades’ web developer on Alexa top100 sites.
I married my wife, Adele, in 2006 and we have two children; a little boy, George, who was born on March 21 2009 and more recently a little girl, Grace, born on September 15 2010.
I strongly support research work on finding a cure for Cervical Cancer as well as preventative charities that work with young women to educate and advise as I lost my big sister, Leala, to this terrible disease in 2009.
You can find me on…
Twitter: twitter.com/bmilleare
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/dir/ben/milleare
GitHub: github.com/bmilleare
Flickr: flickr.com/photos/bmilleare
Delicious: delicious.com/bmilleare
