Rob Batters

Rob Batters is the current Director at Market Hill. Prior to this, they worked as a Technical Support Analyst at Sherwood Computer Services from May 1984 to July 1990. Rob got into Technical Support by being bored watching the overnight backups write file names one after another at 9600 baud to the paper based consoles on the bureau systems. Rob rewrote the backup routine to write them to file instead thereby generating countless additional bureau processing hours.

Before working at Sherwood Computer Services, Rob worked as a Computer Operator at The Corporation of London from May 1982 to May 1984. Their first job was loading 2400-foot reel-to-reel tapes on tape drives that looked like they'd come from a 1960's Sci-Fi movie. And card readers (that's punched cardboard cards, not credit cards). Rob thought they were cool too. And 200Mb (Yes Mb) disk drives the size of dishwashers. Cool. When they wrote a character-graphic space invaders program on a DRS20 attached to the ICL mainframe on a night shift and got in trouble for it, it was time to move on.

They are on a team with James Cherry - CTO, Ramzi Shammas - Principal Consultant, and Dominic Green - Principal Consultant. Rob Batters reports to Thomas Ballard, Managing Director.