After serving my apprenticeship in Glasgow I qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1975 and transferred to our Johannesburg office on a two year secondment. I then worked in a marine engineering concern in Saudi Arabia for 5 years in total. I then spent 2 years with a road construction company in Nigeria from where I went to Sudan as Financial Controller for the Sudan Rural Development Corporation. After a year working freelance in Scotland I went to Egypt with Lilley Construction of Glasgow who were building part of the tunnel works for a new sewer system in Cairo . When that was complete I went to Bangladesh under an EEC funded contract aimed at reconstruction of basic facilities in more that 700 rural locations.

 

I have been in Uist for the past nine years, the first 4 years were spent with Uist Builders in Daliburgh and since then I have been working on a freelance basis.

I enjoy living in the islands and believe location should be no barrier to learning which partly explains my involvement with Cothrom. I am ‘into’ traditional music and serve on the Board of Ceolas Uibhist Ltd.