User:Brianhavers

Brian James Havers

Born London 14/03/1951

Educated in London

Worked in Essex from 1966 through to 1986 when I was offered the opportunity to work in Kenya, East Africa. We went on a one year contract and returned to the UK in November 1999 in time to celebrate the Millennium but it was with a heavy heart that we came home to UK it was bought about by the fact that our youngest son had a motorcycle accident that left him with major injuries not least a brain injury that left him with no short term memory, and although the treatment he received from the Maxillofacial and ophthalmic and dental surgeons and their teams his aftercare left us little option but to head home.

Once back in the UK after a break I joined the NHS as a member of the IT Support team and it was in the sane department I worked up until my retirement at 66 when i was at a point when just getting to the office was an issue as I had a heart problem that meant I had to have a triple bypass resulting in issues with my right leg and a hip problem, so I gave in and retired.

I still miss the comradely of the office and the interaction with staff and the satisfaction of having resolved their issues and maybe making their day just that bit easier. I do however still have some involvement as I service and create websites for local organisations just to keep my hand.

I have a foot in many camps being an Apple Mac user as well as a very good PC as well as many mobile devices iOS android etc.

Have programmed in everything from Tiny Basic, JPL, Z80 & 6502 assembly language, DBase, TAS, Btreive Pascal but I don’t program these days it’s purely for the web these days.