a bit about me;
you can get too much of a good thing
If you got here directly it may be worth having a look around the rest of
the other site before you decide I'm too far up myself to know whether it's dark or light outside. This used to be a far more personal page, but I've decided I need a new role, so it's an extended CV and treasure hunt for now.
My CV is here
There's more background on some of the career based things I've done here
Feel free to email me
or just call me on 021 179 0238 and we can be analogue together.
I look lunatic in most photos, there's a few more of those 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 about my personality and workfit here
which seems fairly accurate to me, YMMV.
Myers-Briggs has assessed me as
ENFP and you can see a diagram of my responses to the seven Holland's associations
here this is fairly interesting in a self absorbed way
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]
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] and finally 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.
I spent almost a decade 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.
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
organised 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 my current vehicle to generate debt
that is ninefish.
In the meantime I grew 3 more kiwi children to adolescence as well as my
big pommie born boy Eliot, got married [again] and live happily and
contentedly in Brighton by the sea
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.
Check the weather and see how sunny it is in my
town Christchurch
Get the local news for Christchurch [The
Press]
