I now live in a coastal suburb of Brisbane, Australia. But I grew up in Perth, in Western Australia. The move to Queensland happened in 2012.

After high school, I attended university, but did not fully apply myself. After a year of university at the University of WA studying Engineering, I commenced work in an Australian bank.

I worked in that bank for over 22 years before commencing university again (Edith Cowan University, WA) with a more mature attitude. This time I graduated and was in my mid-forties. I then left the bank job, and commenced lecturing at that university and at TAFE WA. This lasted a few years and whilst it was great experience, was not very fulfilling.

I next worked as a programmer in a company I founded, programming business software for over thirty years. Most of my development was targeted at computers running Microsoft operating systems and interfacing with Microsoft SQL databases.  And yes, the first systems were for MS-DOS based PCs as Windows was not around at the time.

Initially I was using a language called Clipper, and it was very database orientated. From there I moved on to Clarion for DOS and subsequently Clarion for Windows with some C Language programming.
In the year 2000 I was contracted by a Texas based company to convert and enhance some old software they had. The task was to move it to Windows and with their old flat files database data migrated to Microsoft SQL. That was a huge project and was successfully completed in mid 2001.

Now, after 30+ years programming I am retired. I do a small amount of consulting to the company which bought all my clients and source code.

But new projects and ideas keep coming at me.

I am married to my lovely wife Candace. We have family in USA and in Australia. Our two favourite family members are a granddaughter Ella born in 2005. Ella lives in Texas, USA and our other favourite is Leo, our grandson born in 2013 who lives nearby in Queensland, Australia.

by  John Griffiths