a bit about me;
you can get too much of a good thing

An extended CV and treasure hunt for your distraction.

The basic CV is here

There's more 'technical' background on some of the career based things I've done here

Feel free to email me or just call and we can be analogue together.

The camera doesn't like me as much I I think it does. In this photo I'm running away to start a new life by the beach. There's a few more photos on flickr.com as well as some of the vanity domains I administer, of course you only need to ask and I'll send a link as quick as you can say email reply.

Psychobabble

There's some hocus pocus semi pseudo psychobabble [not that I'm cynical about this at all] about my personality and what's laughingly called 'workfit' here which seems fairly accurate to me, YMMV.

All the little old ladies at Myers-Briggs have assessed me as ENFP I'm not sure their sample was big enough to really form an opinion, but their business model is doing better than mine so maybe I should pay them more attention. You can see a diagram of my responses to the seven Holland's associations here this is fairly interesting in a self absorbed way and seems to sit happily with how I see myself.

Humble birth, everyone starts somewhere...

I grew up in West Bromwich and Birmingham [it seems fairly obvious why I haven't been back if you follow those links, but things have changed and I had a great time when I was there]

Headucation

I went to school at Lyttelton Infants school then Lyng Hall Primary school here and high school here when I lived here [turn on the aerial view instead of the map]

Whilst at George's I played the clarinet a little, here's me with the Art Teacher [Tim] David Brown and Pat Law.

Finally got to go to sixth form here.

After school I went and got an honours degree here when it was still the Lanchester Polytechnic of course it was about to become one of the premier centres for Computer Graphics education and eleven years later a University.

working?

I spent most of the eighties working in and around Rock'n'Roll for SSE Hire which was fun [as often as it was frustrating and distracting] I had either long hair or a bristle cut, a motorbike [when I wasn't crashing it] and some unhealthy food habits as well as a project management role.

Then I had one of many change of direction and thought I'd be a teacher so retrained here, before the campus moved out of the centre of Birmingham, then got a job teaching Ceramics and Art here which was three years of great fun, focus and learning to stay one step ahead of the rest of the class.

life is what happens while you're making plans

I came out to New Zealand in 1990 for a visit, went back to Whittington and resigned my post to emigrate. I should have been more organised and got us residence visas before we left, but I was too impatient so we came back in 1991 as visitors and bluffed our way to residency in 1992.

My first job was at Copyland before websites were invented, and I worked for two companies that are no longer running before an entrepreneurial seizure had me set up ninefish. After 12 or 13 years successfully not dominating the advertising market I closed up the shop and began working in a 'real' job at UMC but after the credit crunch and a reduncancy I'm looking for another job whilst temping with Kelly Services.

In the meantime I grew 3 more kiwi children to adolescence as well as my big, pommie born boy Eliot, got married [again] and separated [again] and now live happy and contentedly if somewhat chaotically in sunny North Beach: New Brighton by the sea, with Sam

a secret cockatoo and a plurality of girls...

The morning sun comes into my room, and the sea is just in earshot over there:

There are other things to see about my family and some of the things I do, but you'll need to be in the know or a fiend with google to find those. Think of that as homework.

For all my pommie relatives, you can check the weather and see how sunny it is in my town Christchurch

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