Just as these web pages are a work in progress, so am I and so is my story (particularly at the moment!).  One day it'll make interesting reading. Until then, though, please suffer through the following snippets...

I was born on February 15, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  That makes me a cusp Aquarius, for those of you who care about such things.

I grew up on Sydney's leafy Lower North Shore, attending Mimosa Public School (Kindergarten to Year 4), then Chatswood Public School (Years 5 and 6) and finally Davidson High School (Year 7 to Year 12), completing my Higher School Certificate in 1987.

I played cricket, volleyball, basketball and soccer for most of my time at school and I enjoyed swimming and cycling but was never much of a runner. I was also often involved in debating and mock trial teams and the like.  School was pretty good - even better when I look back upon it (I guess that's always the way).

I've always traveled. My folks went around Australia in a Holden Ute for their honeymoon, and it never really stopped.  I've spent at least as many Christmases away from home as present, though that ratio is starting to become more normal (at least until I win Lotto and can travel all the time!).  From 5 Star hotels in London, to dodgy aircraft in South America, to playing cricket on board a ship on the Pacific Ocean, to sleeping on banana chairs under the stars on the Nullarbor, to backpacking around the United States through the urban jungles to the wilderness of Tasmania and a lot of places in between - I've pretty much seen it all.  My interests page has more detail for those who are interested.

I started working in Trade Finance/International Banking in 1988 with National Australia Bank Limited, and with them completed my Diploma in Export Management in 1990. In the following year I became a Justice of the Peace. I am a member of the Australian Institute of Export and the New South Wales Justices' Association.

In January 1993 I moved to Brisbane, Queensland having been transferred by my then employer. About two years later I changed employer (to Standard Chartered Bank Australia Limited) and nine months later I was transferred back to Sydney.

Brisbane was an excellent experience. It has a wonderfully relaxed lifestyle with the weather to match, and just a couple of hours from either the Gold Coast or Noosa. I'd like to get back to Brisbane more.

I spent the better part of five years with Standard Chartered in Sydney before a restructure saw me looking for something else to do with myself, and managed to spend time in both operations and corporate management working in supervisory and management roles both state and national.

A brief stint as the Export Sales Executive for Kerr Brothers saw me transition from trade finance and then I took the plunge into Information Technology - a long time hobby and now a new career.  Online Strategies saw me as a consultant for SME businesses doing pretty much everything and that kept me busy, entertained and constantly learning for nearly three years.

Which brings me to my current employer, a major, world wide, Computer OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), which has allowed me to learn so much more about colour and printing and no doubt has helped to guide me back to a passion of photography.  We are involved in imaging from printers to scanners to projectors to cameras and other related devices.  I won't name the company for my own privacy - I only name the ones I'm no longer with.

Outside of work I've managed to travel, meet new friends, break my leg in a way that only the X-Rays can tell the whole story, learn to fly a little, move around, help friends building and renovating houses and generally have a pretty good time.

I'm still here.  A little (and I mean little :-) wiser, and a bit worse for wear.  Sydney does that to you, but I don't mind - can't help but love my home town.