I was born on June 14th 1963 in Aberdeen on the north east coast of Scotland. I have been to married to Heather since 1987. We have 2 children Ashleigh and Kirsten. We all live in Aberdeen. I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Siemens ITS. I have been with the Company since 1986. We are the IT service arm of Siemens Business Services within the Siemens group.

My job involves travelling around the North & East of Scotland carrying out hardware repairs to the various type of computer systems and peripherials my company supports. This includes a wide range of products by different manufacturers. Anything goes really and because of my location, geographically, I have to support everything from PC's to EPOS at one end to larger Unix mini's and Servers at the other.

My hobbies are Boys Brigade, Formula 1, Genealogy & web design.

Although the Boys' Brigade was officially formed on 4th October 1883 but I have only been a part of it since about 1970. I went to the Junior and Company sections as a boy then drifted away from it while at college. I went back as an officer after a chance meeting in 1990 and have been fully involved ever since. I took charge of the Company in 1999 as Captain and its been a challenging and busy time ever since. Our Company, the 44th Aberdeen , based at Mannofield Church also have a home page on the Web which you can also visit to find out more about our Company, if you haven't been to it already.

Heather was born on July 30th 1964 in West Lothian in the south east of Scotland. She is studing at college on a post graduate teacher training course to become a primary school teacher.As is the norm in our family Heather is involved with a youth organisation and runs the 40th Aberdeen Guide unit at Mannofield in Aberdeen. She is also the Arts advisor for Aberdeen & District Guides.

Heather's hobbies are Guides, Eastenders, arts & crafts.