| My life experience includes working as a
Children's Entertainer on a holiday camp in Scarborough (great
fun!) and Internal Auditor for a firm of Funeral Directors (far
fewer laughs but I met some amazing people). I spent a year
living in Munich while I trained and managed a team of auditors
there (and learnt German - after a fashion) and for a number
of years I was the Operational Audit and Communications Manager
for Budgens Stores Ltd.
I then went to Omron Systems UK as a Project
Manager and from there moved to IS Retail where I stayed for
four years as a Technical Consultant. When IS Retail shifted
into selling hardware only I moved to Turnbull & Asser (very
posh shirts & ties) as IT Manager but commuting to the centre
of London every day took its toll - between 4 and 6 hours in
the car to cover 90 miles every day is just no fun! I am contracted
to the National Extension College as a tutor on their "Tutoring online"
course which explores how tutors and teachers might use online
technologies in their daily practice.
I worked for the Open University as an Associate
Lecturer on T171 "You, Your Computer and the Internet" and now
I'm working on M150 which is a first level computing course,
other courses I've worked on include TU170 and TT281. I graduated
from the Open University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science
(Honours) degree and a Diploma in Systems Practice (DipSysPrac)
- check out this page for details - I'm now studying for a Masters
degree in education.
I live alone in a tiny hamlet in rural Kent, not far from Canterbury. My
three children live with their mother. We were married for 21
years but we're now separated.
If anything is worth doing it is worth doing
well and if we can put a man on the moon we really can achieve
anything can't we?
Life doesn't present obstacles, just hurdles
to overcome.
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