The six Ps of Christopher Lawrence Burke

  © 2006 Christopher Burke

Welcome, my name is Christopher Lawrence Burke. Born in Bathurst on November 15th, 1962, and had my first run of the touring circuit when I was around 6 months old. I've got a younger and two older sisters, all completely different to me in every way.

I moved to Queenbeyan in the late 1960s where I spent a typical wonder years type of suburban childhood (including trampolines). A few years later I moved with my family to Mawson in Canberra (yes the hot air capital of Australia), got up to typical youngster mischief and had a fun. Went to school at St Peter's and Pauls then Marist Brother's for some Catholic indoctrination.

My parents finally had enough of the cold, freezing Canberra mornings where it sometimes took until after midday to get water out of the frozen taps, and headed north to the warmer climes of Queensland.

So I started at Iona College in Brisbane, where I spent the remainder of my indoctrination. I've loved the Brisbane climate and lifestyle enough that I've lived in Brisbane ever since.

During the 1980s, after I left school and had my own money, I finally managed to start getting a social life, a taste in music and all that stuff I was meant to have 10 years earlier. Thanks to one of my sisters who bought me an electronics kit, and my father's taste for innovation and invention - I started having fun with electronics, programming and this of course leads me to the next step....

I went to The University of Queensland from 1980 to 1984, got my self a nice bit of paper called Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. I did volunteer work at the 1982 Commonwealth Games where I had the time of my life, got free tickets to the opening and closing ceremonies. I spent the 1980s spending money, building computers including a Super 80 then a Microbee (just to name a few).

In 1993 I got married to an amazing French gal, and we had a turbulent and delightful 11 years of marriage - bushwalking, laughing and fun times. I studied linguistics, creative writing, film making and a host of other creative things in those years. In 2004 we decided to go our separate ways.

Since then, I've been reinventing the bachelor in me - reintroducing myself to computer games (wow - changed in 10 years), D&D, board games so, if you are in Brisbane - send me an e-mail. I've been blogging, philosiphising and alround sparking an interest in the deeper things.

QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING

Academic
Postgraduate Studies in Linguistics, Monash University, 1999
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Communications, University of Queensland, 1984
Senior Certificate, IONA College Brisbane, 1979

Technical
Thinking Skills, Computer Security QUT, System Development using Information Engineering, Relational Database Design (Oracle), Advanced EXCEL, Microsoft Product Support, Introduction to Management, HP-UX System Administration, MTE Advanced C/C++ Course, Java programming course (SAGE)

CORE ABILITIES

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MANAGEMENT and PEOPLE SKILLS

Project Management

2 years

Team Leader

5 years

Communication with high level management

15 years

Proposal writing, cost benefit analysis

12 years

Preparing and presenting presentations including training

10 years

Customer requirements

10 years

Group facilitation, group leadership

10 years

Technical System Documentation and Code Documentation

5 years

ANALYSIS and DESIGN

Systems and business analysis using E-R data modelling and data flow techniques.

10 years

Problem simplification, analysis and solution

20 years

Relational database design and implementation

15 years

Quality Management and Sustainability

8 years

Disaster Recovery Planning

1 year

DEVELOPMENT and PROGRAMMING

Oracle

8 years

Delphi, Kylix and Borland Developer Suite 2006

12 years

MSSQL development

5 years

SQL (standard)

10 years

PERL

5 years

PL/SQL (Oracle’s stored procedure language).

5 years

WEB – CGI, Delphi Webroker, ISAPI, HTML, CSS

8 years

Assembler and various machine languages

5 years

Object Oriented and Event Driven Programming

18 years

Exposure to PHP, JAVA, .NET, C++, C#

2 years

ADMINISTRATION and  SUPPORT

Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98, PC hardware, Novell, DOS and Microsoft applications support, installation and administration.

18 years

Unix setup and administration including PERL systems and CGI programming

10 years

Web servers, e-mail servers on both Windows NT and Unix platforms

8 years

iPlanet LDAP directory servers, directory access routers planning, setup and administration.

5 years

Traffic metering systems.

5 years

TCP/IP networking, bridges and routers.

8 years

Photography Interests

Programming and Development

Stumped about why your downloads and the file on the hard disk don't add up, this little presentation may help

Philosophy and Thought

 

The One Sane Man Speaks - The Waste of the Human Mind

Play and Games

Multiplayer Chess Rules

NiceDice D20 Dice Roller

Wow Plugins

Personal
Professional
Photos
Projects
Philosophy
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