User:MilesSmith1776

Miles Kennedy Smith was born in 1965 in the United Kingdom. His currently lives in the United States of America with his wife Becky.

Education

Miles attended:

South Bromsgrove High School, Bromsgrove, England

Worcester Technical College, Worcester, England

The University of Reading, Berkshire, England

Northwood University, Michigan, USA.

In addition he is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Places Lived

He grew up in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and spent formative years in this town.

As a teenager he was able to go on a work placement in Villers Cotterets, Northern France for six months, working in tree cultivation. It was here he learned to speak French.

Later he lived for a second time in the South of France in a tiny village of Sigonce, Alpes d'Haute Provence, France, where he worked in trufficulture (the growing of truffles), agriculture and construction.

He also spent periods of several months in Lichfield, England, Gibraltar, near Spain, Beziers, France and Nafplio, Greece.

During his four college years studying Engineering he was based in Reading but immediately on graduating moved to Manchester, Lancs to work in the paper conversion industry. He was based in Manchester for some six years but also spent considerable time in the Greater London area.

After Manchester, Miles moved to the United States in 2000 basing himself in the suburbs of Detroit Metro and working in the automotive supply chain. He lived in Detroit for six years. He then moved to Toledo, Ohio where he worked in the forging industry manufacturing automotive components. Following the near collapse of the automotive industry in the US in 2008 Miles moved to Kentucky to work in the machining industry.

Travels

Miles is lucky to have had the opportunity to travel extensively in Europe having spent time touring most of Western Europe and some of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Balkans. In the North America he has visited half of the United States, mostly in the East and Mid West as well as Canada.

MilesSmith1776 (talk) 15:49, 18 October 2008 (UTC)