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1997-present NEW ZEALAND

Building web sites and assisting with Internet Marketing
When we came back here I had my mid-life crisis (one of the best things I ever did) and rode the-then brand new, emerging, Internet out of journalism into search engine work, web design and online marketing consulting.

Jenni and I call ourselves, NETgain. We are a registered New Zealand business partnership, and have developed a robust business in Christchurch, my old university city. We run a really good search engine service and have built web sites in eight countries and helped people around the world do their Internet marketing and get onto page one of Google. We have many (almost embarrassing) testimonials from our customers.

Our three children — and they're the reason we came back home — are now at university (two are doing medicine, studying to be doctors) and high school. Jenni is a kindergarten teacher and relieves at kindies through the city two or three days a week.

1993-96 EGYPT

Public Relations
At the prestigious American University in Cairo, Managed the production of a 32 page, quarterly alumni magazine, sent to 18,000 readers; contributing articles and responsible for the budget, editing, layout and printing.

Produced the university's annual report; writing the text and responsible for photography, design and printing.

Managed the production and design of numerous brochures and leaflets for university departments.

Administration
Prepared and maintained annual publication budgets and allocated work flow for five staff.

Photography
Shot photographs and developed black and white prints.

Design
Good working knowledge of QuarkXpress and the principles of graphic design.

Television News
Supplied Television corporation of Singapore with news packages from time to time, in English and Malay.

Video
Making Produced a film for a major Japanese engineering company. Did the budgeting and scripting, and directed filming and non-linear editing.

For the American University in Cairo produced a video record of the 75th anniversary year. Wrote the script and directed non-linear editing.

Radio News
Filed regular news reports from Egypt and the region for Vatican Radio during 1995-96. Also occasionally for Monitor Radio (US) and did QandAs for Radio NZ.

1992-93 EGYPT

Freelance Television
Some work for TVNZ Holmes Report.

Radio
Filed occasional reports for Radio NZ.

1991-92 NEW ZEALAND

Writing
Freelance

1981-90 PAKISTAN

Writing
Covered aspects of the Afghan war and Pakistani affairs for magazines and newspapers on a freelance basis.

Photography
Supplied photographs with magazine stories.

Teaching
Journalism Taught news writing to Afghan war correspondents in a USAID_funded center, in Peshawar, during 1987.

Video
Budgeted, scripted, shot and edited more than a dozen video training films, in the English and Pushtu languages, for agricultural development agencies, and Afghan aid groups based in Pakistan.

Ghost Writing
Short historical novel published.

Radio
Scripting Wrote a series of scripts that were translated and broadcast in Urdu.

1979-80 NEW ZEALAND

Research
Research Assistant with the NZ Employers Federation in Wellington.

1977-79 SE ASIA

Travel and volunteer work
Travel and some volunteer work with church organization in the Philippines and India.

1974-77 NEW ZEALAND

General Reporting
With the Evening Post newspaper. Wellington (Now the Dominion Post. And with Chaunter Associates, a freelance firm. Both in Wellington.

1968-73 NEW ZEALAND

Education
BA in Political Science and a post-graduate diploma in journalism from Canterbury University, Christchurch.