About

Because this is all about me I feel like I can go through all of the backstory with you…..

I was one of those kids who grew up with an ear for listening to the radio regularly, not only to enjoy the music being played but to take in the talent the ‘Pilots of the airwaves’ had…plus dream of when I would be able to find opportunities that would let me have a go at it.

I never grew up with a computer like some of my friends, my first experiences with a computer and the one that planted the seeds for my future is when the primary school I attended started installing Osborne Pentium computers into classrooms in 1995. We were given 30 minutes a week at minimum to have a play on the computer to do anything we liked, including being able to use a dialup connection to view the Internet.

Towards the end of my time in primary school in 1997 we got our first home computer so from then onward I spent time learning all about the computer’s software and hardware, which started changing my idea for a future job to the world of IT.

After spending a few years in high school battling my way of learning and getting into trouble a little bit, I decided that halfway through Year 11 was the time to leave and join the world as things were a little too challenging to succeed in school.

I spend the time immediately after leaving in study of the Information Technology field at a local TAFE, only to go searching for a career in the game shortly after but with no eventual success…so I started my own business fixing & selling computers and providing website hosting.

The new business combined some past interests, along with little bits and pieces I had been doing as a hobby since high school and allowed me to serve what was a somewhat undercatered audience in my local region.

By 2007 I had become a tad worn down by working 6 days a week fixing other peoples technical issues and was looking for other options which led to the discovery of a Broadcasting Diploma being offered at a local TAFE…I was ready to make something out of a radio career.

I was able to complete my Broadcasting course and was even awarded the Star Student of 2007, then within months was employed at our local FM’s (StarFM/The River).

My employment in the Commercial Radio game has lasted for almost 13 years, with a wide skill set that most in the game could only hope for and also included a stint combining my love for tech with radio conversations on breakfast shows across the country.

The time spent in the company with the levels of skills I had allowed me to thrive in my broadcasting and technology passions, starting as the fill in announcer and panel op for everything guy then moving to a full time on air afternoons shift covering several states and a bunch of great regional stations; a regular on air shift on the weekend on our local AC FM station and several years hosting a passionately local morning music shift that had a stronger audience than the ABC Local station in the same market.

Behind the scenes I worked with Production and Content teams to improve the way that we could edit, export and distribute content in the network of stations; along with our process of record keeping and communication. I was really proud of devising mass audio ingestion processes that were not being used anywhere in the company before, which in my legacy was adopted across the companies audio brands to improve distribution.

We spent time loading content across two separate radio playout systems while in transition from a legacy product, swapped a group of stations across to two national brands with a quite flawless changeover and worked days, nights and early mornings for several weeks on the edge of the new year of 2020 to communicate the emergency details in one of the worst bushfires in our region.

Following a major change of workflow for some of us when the world went into COVID lockdown and the subsequent halt to the economy, the radio gig came to an end as the company bundled myself and a few hundred people into a redundancy process so as to adjust the company for the changing landscape.

The process of being made redundant gave me a little bit of time to fix my deep emotional connection with my work of passion, take a week or two away and to get a feeler for how much had changed since I was last out of work, lasting about 6 months before the chance to gain an Interview and step up to a new gig.

The next few years was taking some of the best parts of my skillset and being able to really help others – joining a federally funded telecommunications support project being operated by one of our national farming bodies. I was employed as the 3rd employee on the project, working on the front line of support to give people real information about options that worked for them regionally and being able to debug technical challenges presented by service providers to communicate ideas for resolution on behalf of the customer.

Skills gained from everything I had achieved prior to this engagement saw the chance to take not only a community engagement role in the project, but to step up and manage the project for a year. I then went onto provide support to the Technical Support and Engagement teams across the 4 years of my involvement, parting ways just before Christmas in 2024 for another life challenge.

My time is currently spent working in a contract engagement providing ICT support across server and desktop infrastructure running across Microsoft Windows & Linux Server OS, Windows 11, MacOS mixed with some Cisco Systems and Ubiquiti Networking.

When not working I love to spend my spare time enjoying great music, playing with new gadgets, catching up with friends, enhancing my skills, fixing things and even going on day trips around the region to enjoy the beauty of where I live.