An Australian born and raised European compu-nomad, I've found my way to the U.K. this last year, following a five year stint in France.

A hardware engineer by training, with a background servicing digital radar for the Australian Airforce, I did some mainframe CE and data communications work, as well as chip and transistor changing, before joining Sun in December 1987.

Yup count 'em, 16 years.

Sun is the only kind of envoronment I can survive for that long, I'm not generally one to stay in any place longer that 5 years, but in Sun I've swapped roles every 4 years or so, and pretty much picked and chosen what I want to do and when. (Recessions and burst bubbles aside the choice of time and place has been mine).

So having done hardware, training, people management and tech management in Australia I chose to go to France in a software sustaining role on Streams based data comminications products.

Two main factors drove that decision, providing an education money can't buy for my then 2 year old daughter, and filling that little hole in my CV around C code. While in France I ran several trainings in Sparc crash dump analysis and did some little dabbling back in technology management.

That much aside, welcome to my blog. I plan to update on what I'm working on occasionally , along with a little home spun philosophy.