"> What's your IT history?
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"um, very long? ;)
"Always system software, really. I did a lot of hardware design early on. Developer a couple of personal computers, wrote an OS and a real-time kernel. compilers, assemblers, linkers, interpreters, etc. Tons of stuff.
"Working at the Nortel Wollongong lab was a great experience; being responsible for the delivery of five (or six) nines products to Telco customers, managing teams of up to 15 people, etc. I just learnt so much by observing the director down there, JB Clarke. He's brilliant..."