This website belongs to me, Daniel Bryant, the handsome young chap in the picture to the right of this text. I currently live in Guildford, a town just outside of London in the UK, having originally lived all my life in Silverton, a small village just outside of Exeter in Devon. During working hours I like to engage in a broad range of activities:

• My main skills relate to IT Consultancy, specifically developing web-based enterprise applications using Java JEE , Spring, Hibernate, MySQL and Oracle RDBMS, DWR, DHTML and Prototype. I am Sun Certified (SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD), a professional member (MBCS) of the British Computer Society and also a member of the Professional Contractors Group.
• I own a company, Tai-Dev Ltd, through which I offer IT Consultancy service. Tai-Dev holds Public Liability, Employers Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance (Details available on request).
• I'm currently working on my Entrepreneurial skills, and have been involved in a range of IT startup companies over the past 5 years, in addition to forming Tai-Dev. I'm currently part of the team at TriOpsis Ltd, a company specialising in creating software for the management of visual business information. I was the primary server-side architect and developer for the company's initial flagship product - the Retail Display Manager.
• I also actively conduct academic research within the field of computing, specifically artificial intelligence and creating computational models of how humans reason and argue. I am currently studying for a PhD at the University of Surrey, and have published in respected peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.
• As part of my link to academia I like to take the opportunity to teach as much as possible, and have lectured to all levels in the Department of Computing within the University of Surrey and also Sixth Form students from a local college. Topics I teach include Enterprise Software Development, Visual Computing, AI and Research Techniques and Tools (being a huge fan of Life Hacker)

In my free time I'm into listening to music and goining to concerts (RnB and Hip Hop), watching TV (particularly American drama show, such as Sopranos, Lost, Prison Break, 24 etc.), going to the cinema, chatting with friends, reading (specifically self-development books and other thought provoking material), running (with my favourite race distance being 10k, but I have run an increasing number of half marathons over the last three years), going to the gym and taking part in martial arts/eastern excerises (I'm currently enjoying learning Zhan Zhuang Chi Kung in London and Tai Chi in Guildord).

I’ve created this website to showcase what I do inside and outside of my daily work, and so hopefully the content will continue to expand over the coming years.

You can contact me by email: daniel [at] danielbryant.co.uk, and if you want to find out even more about me (or want to employ me) please look at my CV ( 63k) and University web pages