Summary
Paul Henshaw is a experienced technology leader and software engineer with over three decades in international R&D and more than a decade leading development teams, currently serving as Director of Technology and Development at the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. He blends hands-on software and database development, GIS-driven interactive mapping, and embedded/mobile systems expertise with program and budget management, contract drafting, and stakeholder liaison across international projects. A proponent of agile methods and open source communities, Paul has a track record of building interdisciplinary teams and shipping distributed, standards-driven software from research prototypes to production. His background spans telecoms, digital TV set-top platforms, in-car telematics, and scientific computation, reflecting comfort with both low-level protocols and high-level metadata/modeling. Notably, he has contributed engineering work back to standards bodies (e.g., W3C/Jigsaw) and managed patent and IP strategy, combining technical depth with governance and legal awareness.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mayflower High School
St. Anselms, Basildon
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Kent
English, Italian, French