 Born in July of 1967 along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, I have spent all my life here in Atlantic Canada. I was very fortunate to have a Father that was a Warden for Parks Canada and we got to travel quite a bit when I was a kid. I learned at a very early age how to deal with many different types of personalities, how to become “one of the group” and a team player. It has served me well over the years and is probably why I feel so comfortable in dealing with people and the public in general.
I have been married now for about 15 years and have a very loving and caring wife. We have two children, a boy and a girl. We live in Dartmouth N.S., Canada where we own our own home and enjoy what we have in life. Both my wife and I are SCUBA divers and enjoy the ocean very much. Being from, and living in Atlantic Canada, we have among the best shipwreck diving in the world. We have been diving in the Caribbean while on vacation and have absolutely loved it as well. I am an avid diver and hold the Advanced Diving Certifications from PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors).
I got involved with electronics at a very early age (around 8 years old) and found that it came very naturally to me. As a kid I found that I always had someone’s old TV or radio apart on the basement bench to fix or clean it up. By the time I was 14 or so I had quite the little business on the go. In Junior High School I got involved with my first computer system, an old TRS-80 Model II (for you history buffs out there). I learned how to write a mean program in just 4K of memory! WOW! This was a start of what I knew would be a life long career in the computer field. I got quite seriously involved with Digital Electronics about that same time too. I still love the idea of interfacing computers with the real world. Out of High School, I took a bit of time off when I could not get the course I wanted in electronics and wound up working as a masons laborer for a local bricklayer. I rather enjoyed it and ended up taking brick lying as a trade to hold me over until I could get the course I wanted in the electronics or computer field. I am actually a 3rd year apprentice bricklayer. It helped to feed my desire to create and build things with my hands. I love to work in detail with my hands. After a few years of doing this, that little inner voice was calling me back to the technical world. Who was I to say no?
I wound up going to a private school to get my papers in Computer Technology and did extremely well in it. I already had the background for it and it came quite easy and natural to me. I have been in the field ever since. I started my career in this field back in 1988 with a company by the name of Beothuk Data Systems. I was a field engineer with that company for a bit over 3 years before being laid off. I had gotten excellent experience in the mainframe and mini computer world and in dealing multi-user systems using UNIX. For a while I did Private Contracting work before I joined up with a company by the name of True North Computers as their service manager. I gained invaluable experience with “Clone” PCs and in dealing with… well… “less than happy” customers. I was only with this company for just a short period of time, a little over 6 months, when I realized that this was not a good career move for me. I took a Service Engineer position with an international company by the name of MicroAge Computers. True North Computers went out of business a month later. I had a wonderful stay at MicroAge for over 7 years, going through two owners before downsizing in the company claimed my position again and several others. With MicroAge I had the opportunity to deal with the larger companies like IBM, Compaq, HP, Toshiba and many more. I had earned many certifications from these companies while at MicroAge. I spent 7 great years submerged in networking technology dealing with companies like Merrill Lynch, CIBC, ING Canada and many others. After being laid off from MicroAge, I went back to Private Contracting that laid the foundation for NNT. I do enjoy this a great deal. I prefer the long term contracting better but do take short term ones when the come up. I currently still am contracting my time out, but always keep an eye out for a position with-in a company. In late spring of 2001, I started a position with General Electric (GECITS). What a great company to work for. I loved it there an wish I didn't have to leave. I was unfortunately laid off just over a year later due to a rough time in the IT sector. GE had to make many painful decisions and I was one of them, along with several others in CITS, about 3500 of us in total. The work I did with GE allowed me to do some traveling and interface with my clients the way I liked to. I met every challenge that came my way while I was there.
And here I am again! NNT is my company. I represent it and it me. We do well together. Over the years I have worked on everything from “reel to reel” data
storage systems on old mainframe systems to the current generation of
network file servers and their fiber optic bus structures... from
Network O/Ss like Windows 2000 (server and professional) to UNIX… from
servers to printers, from robotics to electronics. I have my own lab
setup at my residence and stay current with technology as best as I
can. There is so much more I can do but not the room here to put it. I
try to do it all!
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