Patrick Walsh

Patrick has lived most of his life in the Midlands in the UK, where the automotive industry used to be king. Having spent thirty years or so climbing the greasy pole from a lineside inspector to becoming a Quality and Environmental Manager in a large automotive group he became interested in information architecture and usability through setting up an online integrated quality/environmental/health and safety manual. He left the automotive industry to set up an intranet from scratch for a large local government department and now works at the BBC as an Information Architect. Projects include BBC intranets, homepage, music and the semantic web. For many years Patrick was a rock musician but decided when he was fat and forty that it was time to quit. For him IA, and how it can be applied to intranets, is definitely the new rock and roll!