About

Julian was born in Ilfracombe, UK in 1943. He has lived as an expatriate Englishman for most of his life first in Germany then Australia, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and now Thailand where he lives in retirement with his wife and daughter. He began his career as an officer with the Orient Line, serving in big passenger liners to Australia and around the world. With the demise of line voyaging he left the sea and after a spell working with the Playboy organisation in the UK he became the Operations Manager for a support services company in Saudi Arabia. In later years his career changed direction and he worked in the IT industry as a programmer, lecturer and finally as a project manager. He is occasionally called out of retirement to act as (he calls it) an itinerant corporate medicine man – attempting to cure the self inflicted ills of businesses that get their IT strategy wrong. His passion is flying – he holds a pilots licence and exercises the privileges whenever possible.