From: "Mike Ballard"
To: <pbird
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: Contact from Friends Reunited - Paul Bird

Paul

I joined the college in Sept 1986 and left in July 1989. I took the
BTECH OND Electronics and Telecommunications and an HNC in Radar and
Microelectronics. Sally Thornton also took the same course during the
same years ( She is now Sally Ballard !!)

I see that you have my picture on there already !
http://www.classaxe.com/mnc//pic/workshop1.jpg

Yes that's me in the gross jumper 

I left college and worked for a small company (3 people) call Brigden
Technology in Erith supporting PC hardware and PCB design software for a
year.

Left there and worked for IBM for two years as a customer engineer
servicing Banking, Retail and office equipment.

Moved to Reuters in 1992 as Field Service engineer in the City looking
after the financial systems for 3 years, moved on to set up a technical
helpdesk in customer support for two years and then moved into client
management as a Technical Account Manager which I am still doing
although now working with different customers to what I started with.

Let me know if you need more

Cheers

Mike Ballard
Technical Service Manager
Reuters UKI
 
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