Lisa moved to Margate, Kent UK in June 2009 after twenty odd years, of living in Greece. She started out as a seasonal holiday representative working for the large UK tour operators. After ten years of summers in the Greek Islands, winter skiing, the alpine resorts, and basically living out of a suitcase and putting work first. Lisa settled and made her base on the small and remote Greek Island of Symi, where she was very much part of the local community, both on the land and at sea.
In more recent years, Lisa has been paying the bills with contract agency work, involving months away, enjoying the freedom of intense periods of very hard work, followed by times off at her small remote island home, at sea or some other distant corner of the world.
As part of a millennium resolution Lisa signed up to study with the Open University, the distance learning fitted well around her rather unusual life style and work pattern. Regularly commuting across Europe and beyond, Lisa could often be found studying on her laptop in some strange locations and when asked. "Where she went to university?" she felt like answering Heathrow Terminal Two! Fitting study around her lifestyle choice was no easy task.
Extremely experienced, at communications and team working in distributed environments, remote islands, being her thing, long before she were to study communications as a subject formally! She has been using the technologies since the days of the telex machine, punch tape, and as a keen sailor even, off shore-radio and the use of flags! Lisa is proud to prove distance is no object to learning.
Her mature years, did not stop her from normal student activities, in 2004 she took time out to explore land, just for a change :-) Make the most of all those air miles that were clocked up commuting to and from work, Lisa headed out, to India where she travelled overland, crossing from West to East via the Himalaya’s for her snow fix! During that very exciting year, Lisa also took several shorter trips, closer to home, meeting up with her sailing chums in various locations around the Med.
A natural linguist, speaking Modern Greek fluently, Lisa also has a basic ability in a plethora of other languages; she is not shy of make a fool of herself, or others sometimes ;-) Send Lisa ashore and she will come back with what is required, language skills or no language skills. Pork chops in a Muslim country, or a monkey wrench in some sleepy back water, 9 out of 10 times she can deliver. If you are in her company on April the 1st be on your guard! She loves a practical joke!
In 2008 Lisa graduated with a BSc (Hon’s) Information Technology & Computing, and continues to have a keen interest in the fast changing world of technology, she is especially interested in Human Computer Interaction, (HCI) and the use of software, to overcome Disability and Exclusion. (e-inclusion)
Follow the traveller or geek, and see where it takes you!
In more recent years, Lisa has been paying the bills with contract agency work, involving months away, enjoying the freedom of intense periods of very hard work, followed by times off at her small remote island home, at sea or some other distant corner of the world.
As part of a millennium resolution Lisa signed up to study with the Open University, the distance learning fitted well around her rather unusual life style and work pattern. Regularly commuting across Europe and beyond, Lisa could often be found studying on her laptop in some strange locations and when asked. "Where she went to university?" she felt like answering Heathrow Terminal Two! Fitting study around her lifestyle choice was no easy task.
Extremely experienced, at communications and team working in distributed environments, remote islands, being her thing, long before she were to study communications as a subject formally! She has been using the technologies since the days of the telex machine, punch tape, and as a keen sailor even, off shore-radio and the use of flags! Lisa is proud to prove distance is no object to learning.
Her mature years, did not stop her from normal student activities, in 2004 she took time out to explore land, just for a change :-) Make the most of all those air miles that were clocked up commuting to and from work, Lisa headed out, to India where she travelled overland, crossing from West to East via the Himalaya’s for her snow fix! During that very exciting year, Lisa also took several shorter trips, closer to home, meeting up with her sailing chums in various locations around the Med.
A natural linguist, speaking Modern Greek fluently, Lisa also has a basic ability in a plethora of other languages; she is not shy of make a fool of herself, or others sometimes ;-) Send Lisa ashore and she will come back with what is required, language skills or no language skills. Pork chops in a Muslim country, or a monkey wrench in some sleepy back water, 9 out of 10 times she can deliver. If you are in her company on April the 1st be on your guard! She loves a practical joke!
In 2008 Lisa graduated with a BSc (Hon’s) Information Technology & Computing, and continues to have a keen interest in the fast changing world of technology, she is especially interested in Human Computer Interaction, (HCI) and the use of software, to overcome Disability and Exclusion. (e-inclusion)
Follow the traveller or geek, and see where it takes you!
