Oliver Crow

Oliver Crow is Simplexity's principal software systems architect and the Director of Systems Development. He has over twenty years of experience developing applications software in both academic and commercial environments.

He brings to Simplexity a dedication to quality and process in the production of software systems and applications. It is his contention that most computer software annoys its users and that this shortcoming is worthy of the serious attention of application designers and developers. The amount of time and energy that we all spend lost in frustration with the systems that are supposed to help us should be a source of great embarrassment to those of us tasked with system development.

Oliver grew up in the suburbs of London and attended college at the University of Leeds. After graduating he was drawn to California by the promise of a culture open to new ideas, and in 1992 he moved to Berkeley to continue his studies in multimedia systems.

In the 90’s Oliver worked on multimedia systems, network architecture and the internet. He was instrumental in a number of projects in digital video effects and interactive digital media. He created and managed networks and applications on UC Berkeley campus for distributing digital video in higher education and research applications. In 1999 he co-founded the web application development company SkyMind. In 2001 Simplexity and Skmind merged, and he has since worked on the Simplexity team building developing custom web applications and databases for a variety of industries.

Oliver believes that the most interesting and effective work is always done by small teams of highly skilled people, working tightly together on well defined projects. This is the approach we strive for at Simplexity.

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