About

My name is Nicholas Foster better known as Nick. I am currently living in Melbourne, Australia although I am originally from Basingstoke, UK.

I have worked in the UK and Australia for various organisations. For details of my experience and education please review my CV or take a look at my LinkedIn public profile.

History

I studied Computer Science at Brunel University in Uxbridge, West London achieving a Bachelor of Science degree with second class (upper division) honours. During and after my undergraduate studies I worked for Lloyds TSB. I worked in the Capacity Planning team assisting in the setup and execution of the entire bank’s performance and capacity monitoring for all their UNIX and Windows based servers.

I had always wanted to do some postgraduate studies so in late 2004 I applied to Melbourne University to do my Master of Information Technology (MIT). I decided on Australia for various reasons including that fact I had always wanted to visit and I had had some good recommendations from a few different people. I was accepted on to the course and flew to Australia to start in July 2005. The course was great and allowed me to really develop my IT thinking and skills. After completing my MIT, I decided to do a graduate law diploma, firstly because it interested me and was an area of IT not many ‘geeks’ go into and secondly because I required the extra time studying to apply for permanent residency in Australia.

In 2007 I founded Cinergix with two other friends from Melbourne University, Chandika Jayasundara and Charanjit Singh. Cinergix’s mantra is ‘Make Design Easy’ and we do this through our three guiding lights of Share. Reuse. Innovate. Today was have released our first product - Creately which is currently in private beta release.

Personally

I am engaged to Nadisha Prelis and we are getting married in Sri Lanka in January 2009. I can be an opinionated individual, as attested to by Nadisha, and this blog is my outlet. I can be quite analytical in my take on things and I like things to be fair. The thing that I really hate is when someone is lying, if you are going to argue at least make sure the facts are correct.

My Blog

There are people out there writing about how to do things and what the research shows. I know this as I read them - a great example is the Harvard Business Review blog. However sometimes we need a way of seeing how something will work in the situation we are caught in.

In my blog I will try to give you my experiences and what you can draw from them. I won’t leave you hanging and ask you to figure it out I will let you know what the experience means for you.

As well as these experiences I will also be writing about my ideas and thoughts for the current and future of IT, humans, the earth and life in general.

Finally

And remember … “There was only one time that I was wrong and that was when I thought I was wrong but it turned out I was right!”

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Nick Foster
6 October 2008