Geoff has been involved in the engineering support and maintenance of medical equipment since 1974. Following army service in Hong Kong, UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia, he has worked in Saudi Arabia (a further four times), Nigeria, Jordan, Oman (twice), as an agency technician in the UK National Health Service, and for private UK medical engineering companies.

During his long years overseas, Geoff worked for equipment maintenance contractors, and on new hospital projects with consulting engineers and architects.

Experienced at all levels from bench technician to project engineer, he now prefers to work at the practical "hands-on" level, mentoring younger technicians, and developing computer database applications related to biomedical engineering.

Most of my time is spent serving the world-wide biomed community, in one way or another. Either as a benevolent hacker (in the original, benign, sense of the word), often engrossed in my software projects for weeks on end, or as a mentor and adviser to less experienced technicians. And also in what I like to call retro-engineering. By this I mean refurbishment of used technical equipment, and seeking out ways of keeping older (and often much-loved) medical equipment in service, in the most cost-effective way possible.

Plus occasional equipment inspections and repairs for equipment on its way to people in need throughout the world. And, lastly, as a scrounger of surplus equipment, parts, manuals, tools and test equipment etc. on behalf of (or in support of) medical charity groups.

I also remain generally available to assist in tasks such as those listed at the Our specialities page of this website. For these and other assignments that may pique my interest, I need to charge at a per diem rate, depending upon the nature of the work. Although I am prepared to do a fair amount of pro bono work when the mood takes me (and the cause is just), like everyone else I still need to pay my bills.

In my younger days I had always imagined that I would, at some stage, write a book about the technical support of medical equipment. Indeed, over the years I have penned a few articles, policies and procedures and the like. But with the advent of the internet, I now have the opportunity to spread the word in a much more dynamic (and easily edited) fashion by way of my software projects.

Both the DOS and Windows versions of my TaskMaster equipment maintenance program remain available as free downloads, on the basis of demonstrations of what can be done. Depending upon the amount of time involved, I would need to charge if any follow-on work is needed (such as alterations to the programs, inventory data collection etc.).