Kevin Kidson and Judy Brower co-founded the extensive South African wine portal,
wine.co.za in 1996
Kevin comes from an IT systems / programming background specialising in the flow of information within an organisation, with extensive knowledge of many IT systems including database management, email services, web services, domain services and he programmes in multiple languages.
In a previous life he worked for NCR fixing mini-computers, programmed navigation systems with Decca, sold and programmed Apple computers, consulted to Microsoft in Seattle, developed support systems for Aldus (Adobe) in Europe and brought desktop publishing to South Africa.
He is passionate about data (especially data integrity!) He loves breaking down laagers of data (proprietary data) to ensure that information is freely available (open source data)
Kevin designed and built
wine.co.za and CellarDirect and is responsible for the extensive database that sits behind
wine.co.za and the systems that allow staff to add, update and maintain that data. He is also the programmer behind
wine.co.za, ensuring the integration of data into the website.
And the rest of his day is spent supporting clients and staff with email, website and general internet issues.
He loves the sea, long hikes, discussions with friends and in his old age is getting into veggie gardening ( and will probably open up an information portal around that soon !)