About Brendan

Me with my youngest son, Ciaran.

I’m Brendan. I’m married with two little boys and in my spare time play volleyball at a great little club in the West Midlands.

I was born in the first part of the seventies but I was brought up surrounded by technology – my parents bought their first computer in 1978 and I was using PRESTEL and BBS as a child well before the internet came in to existence. Whilst at school in the late eighties I got in to doing DTP work for a local printer and spent my entire savings on a scanner. I remember being blown away at university when I first encountered Mosaic (later Netscape). A couple of years later when I got my first proper job I ended up building databases and websites and got drawn in to direct marketing (telephone, postal and online – my first banner ad running over Xmas’96). I also ran lots of very strange overseas educational projects. Note to self: this is a really poor summary of such a formative and mad period of my life I’ll have to write a post on this at some point.

I started working at the University of Leicester on 22nd June as a Market Development Manager (Distance Learning) based in the International Office.

Prior to this I worked in a job that involved Marketing, Global Networks and Communities for the University that can claim to have invented distance learning some 150 years ago. It’s a university that’s very big and very prestigious but hardly anyone knows anything about it. Note to self: also write a post on this topic at some point.

I started this blog after a fair bit of thought. You can read about this here.

Feel free to drop me a comment and I’ll probably contact you to say hello. My contact details if you can’t work them out (fawcettbj on most networks) are available via http:cr.im/f

P.S. Obviously the views expressed here are entirely my own and certainly do not represent those of my previous, current or future employers.