I mainly want to use this page to explain why I set up my own company. I have a background in engineering both educationally (MEng from Glasgow University and PhD at Strathclyde University) and workwise, with nearly 20 years of work experience in such institutions as MOD R&D, Spanish telephone R&D, JP Morgan technology/networking, Strathclyde University Industrial Control Centre, Petroleum Experts software application development and Voxar/Barco MID software application development. So, my superficial motivation is to found a company that is satisfying for engineers (like me) to work in.
However, I've come to the conclusion that we should regard the technical aspects of software engineering as mainly a solved problem, and concentrate almost purely on how we define what we are going to do, and then how we maintain that. I've seen that developing a product quality software application, even one that is to medical device standard, is quite easy, given a good product specification. However, building the vision and specification of what that programme should do, and then maintaining it over a number of years, seems to be something that people find difficult to do.
So, what I want to in MayTay Medical is to foster a passion for and love of the subject matter of what we do (come up with better ways of investigating medical data, and therefore improving medical care for people) at, quite frankly, the expense of worrying about some of the peripheral aspects of computing which are often ephemeral anyway. And I also want to set out our store in acknowledging, explicitly, that the biggest problem we have is figuring out what to build and how to maintain the vision of that, not actually how to build it. And, so, the point of the company is to provide a place for people to work, who acknowledge the above and, yet, also possess the skills in how to build it after they've figured out what that it is. And I think it is important that in a small company these diverse skills and attitudes need to exist in the same people.