I am a self employed lighting engineer, who also has a background in electronics and woodworking. I do not smoke, but I do drink. My Interests are Computing, Electronics, Music and Reading. I have two children Alexandra (23/2/94) and James (28/6/96).
For quite a few years, I owned equipment to provide lighting for shows/gigs, and worked quite a lot at Leicester University and Leicester Polytechnic (now Demontfort University). I now mainly work for my brother as a carpenter.
A Brief CV would show
1976 Left School, 3 'O' levels (Maths,Engineering Science,Technical Drawing)
1976 Worked for Marconi as a 'Portable Appliance and Tools tester'.
1976-1978 Worked for a company who made kitchen units
1978-1980 Worked for GEC/Marconi, who later became Fisher Controls, as a wireman.
1980-1981 Worked for my brother as a carpenter.
1982-1983 Worked as an electronics test/design engineer at a small company.
1983-1986 Worked as an electronics test/design engineer for a medium sized company.
1986- Became self employed (under the Enterprise Alowance Scheme) working as a lighting engineer (This had been a part time thing from when I left school). I still freelance as a wireman or chippy.
My computer systems are
An Iyonix PC.
A Microdigital Omega
An Acorn RISCPC 700 with Kinetic, 2 Meg VRAM, 64+64 Meg DRAM, Viewfinder, AtomWide Triple Fast serial Port, Computer Concepts TV Card, Blitz Card, Epson GT-9500 Scanner, Matshita CR-582 CD 8 X Read IDE, 812 MByte IDE, 12G IDE, APDL Datasafe with 8G Drive, Dell 21" Monitor, USR Sportster Voice 33.6 FaxModem, MEDL Trackerball.
A Riscstation R7500.
Software wise, I use !Zap, !Organizer, !CallerID, !VoiceMail, !Inetsuit, Messenger Pro, !Browse, !Oregano, !Oregano2, !DigitalCD, !Teletext+, !Speak, !SparkFS, !Prophet3+, !Datapower, !Vector, !Vantage, !TechWrite, !Fireworkz, !Sleuth, !TopModel2, !Vigil, !ArcPCB, !Thesaurus, !Convert, !Close, !ImgMaster, Acorn C++, !CDBurn, !CDScribe2 and many others.
My musical interests vary from Metalica to Kate Bush, but with a 'heavy' bias toward rock.
Reading interests include Science Fiction, Science Fact, Horror.
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