Hi, I'm Brian (Dad) and am the technical one who created this site.
I like spending time with my family who are the most important things in
my life. I like playing games on my PS3 and PSP which gives a welcome
break after a hard days work and after the younger ones are all tucked
up in bed. I enjoy gardening and DIY when I get the free time to do it.
I also love to go on our holidays which makes sure that I get to spend
premium time with my children. Oh, and I love gadgets which is probably
why I fulfil the role of local technical support for the rest of the
household, it's normally my gadgets that go wrong.
I was born in Coventry during April 1966, and I have two older brothers
(Keith and Gary) and an older sister (Diane). I went to Woodlands School
for my secondary education, Stringer House as it happens. Many years on
Sue stumbled into a reference on the Woodlands School web site for me
and a painting I had done with a friend Roy back in 1982 which is
apparently still on the wall and had survived a fire.
I left school at sixteen to take up an electrical apprenticeship with
Rolls-Royce, at first in the
Coventry training centre and then in Ansty near Coventry. I finished my
apprenticeship in 1986 and became a qualified electrical engineer
working for Rolls-Royce. In 1991 I started studying an
Open University
degree which helped me switch to a new career still at Ansty in the
Information Technology department of Rolls-Royce Industrial and Marine
Gas Turbines. In 1996 I achieved my BSc in Computing, a very proud
moment for Sue and my parents and of course me. My career then took a
new turn in February 1997 when Rolls-Royce outsourced IT staff to
EDS Limited and I joined them
working on the Rolls-Royce account.
In 1998 I left the Rolls-Royce account and Ansty and took up a leveraged
role based out of Milton Keynes which allowed me to work on many EDS
accounts across the UK including BP, Inland Revenue and Barclays. 2001
saw me change to an EMEA wide Messaging team and I became a home worker,
no more driving to Milton Keynes every day. Then in 2009
Hewlett Packard acquired EDS and
I moved into HP and am currently working on a very large Global account
in the messaging space.