Mark Ford
Founder & Community Builder at SussexDigital
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Ford is a delivery-focused founder and community builder with 11 years of experience leading large-scale digital and data programmes across government and health sectors. He combines hands-on front-end engineering roots with pragmatic programme leadership, having led critical services like the NHS National Booking Service and digital NHS Health Check while managing supplier and clinical safety relationships. Based in Worthing, he runs local initiatives—WorthingDigital and SussexDigital—to make the regional tech ecosystem more visible and connected, showing a genuine commitment to inclusive, user-centred services. Allergic to nonsense and skilled at cutting through complexity, he thrives on helping teams deliver resilient, drama-free outcomes for national public services. A serial organiser and entrepreneur, he balances public-sector delivery with running his own consultancy, Intelligent Lime Ltd.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
St Andrews Highschool for Boys, Worthing
Github Skills (20)
psql9
adp9
finder8
rails8
billing8
ruby7
cbo6
react6
tax5
static-assets5
javascript5
frontend3
validation2
prototypes2
wrapping2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
crashposition/worthingdigital
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:32 commits in 4 months
fordie/worthingdigital
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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