ADAM HAWKINS



Personal Information
ABOUT MYSELF
I was born in Melbourne on the 24/4/1977. I have a drivers licence and forklift ticket. I am Married and live in Wodonga.

Education & Training
High School
I attended Wangaratta High School from year 7 to 12 and completed my VCE in 1995.
Tertiary
In 1996 I comenced an Advanced Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at RMIT in Melbourne. after studying and living in Melbourne for two years, I was fortunite to receive a postion with a company in Albury as a trainee Computer Service Engineer. I completed my traineeship in 1999, and while working full time and studying as a computer technican I transfered my Mech. Eng. course to Wodonga Tafe and completed that in 2000. I also went on to get certifed by many companies and manufactures such as Hewlett Packard, Canon and Lexmark.
CCNA
In November 2001 I received a Cisco Certified Network Associate, which I had been working toward that year, This was a really gratifying certificate to receive and opened up new doors in my career path, it also triggered off in an interest in networking and communications.
Charles Sturt University
At the end off 2001 I applied to CSU so I could study a degree in Information Technology. I was accepted and commenced my Degree in 2002.

Current Employment
After working for four and half years as a computer technican, I was awarded a position as a Systems/Network Administrator for Domain network Solutions , and commenced work there in April 2002.

Other Interests
I am married two years and have just moved into our new house we built, so gardening takes up most of my spare time. I also enjoy movies and playing guitar. I injuried my knee seven years ago playing Football and have had two operations since. Eariler this year I reinjured the same knee playing Vollyball for Wodonga and now have to have a full reconstruction. So my Football and Vollyball days are over, luckily Golf is another one of my passions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - Thanks to everyone for allowing links to their websites, also thanks to Clipart Kingdom for the clipart pictures and Lissa Explains.

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