Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He
quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal
Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in
OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux
development. Early in his career he became involved in what
is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth
of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of
professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc
It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.
Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite
Exposure" which got much notice from people involved
in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the
attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass.
While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it
became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about
technology and sometimes politics on his
blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts
appearing on the Interesting
Authors blog.