[RHClarke]

My first paying gig was as a general labourer with the town of Sioux Lookout in Northern Ontario as a teen. It was there that I learned what hard work really was and determined that I would avoid it at all costs in the future. After university I worked as a bill collector in the wilds of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where I got my combat experience. Eventually, I joined the Canadian Army and after a lengthy career of pissing off colonels, wifey number two and I retired in Ottawa, Ontario, where I became a project management (PM) consultant. After an initial contract in Montreal, Quebec, I worked with the army at national defence HQ to obtain modern equipment and clothing right up to the end of the Afghan war. While on "leave" or whenever "on the beach" (between contracts), I had the pleasure of touring China preaching the western version of PM. I also got a short visit to both Thailand and Tanzania to give some leadership and management training. My last contracts were with the military doing some not so exciting but very interesting policy work. While all of that was going on, I ran my consulting small business and will be opening another small business involving our hobby - once my lawyer sorts out some issues for me.

You would never peg me for a PM "expert" if you follow the Hammond Barn thread. I play with CMPs for the fun of it and am in no hurry to see the end of the neverending, continuously ongoing HUP project.