Name:                 John M Hotchin
Home is:             151 Winchester Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 8RX, England


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D.o.B.                 15th February 1957
Home Town:       Scunthorpe, N. E. Lincs, England
Marital Status:    Married....2nd time around, 11/12/13
Children:             Son (Martin - 2E1FVS), daughter (Francesca)

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Interests & Hobbies:   Amateur Radio, motorcycling, my classic Mini, computers, music - not necessarily in that order!!

Profession:       System Administrator II for McCain Foods Ltd, responsible server maintenance at all UK sites, South America, France, Belgium, Italy and Greece.

I left school when I was sixteen and worked in the motor trade as a paintsprayer/panelbeater for 22 years.  A desire to get out of the motor trade and my seven years experience as a bodyshop manager got me a job in the world of computers training end-users in the use of a computerised body shop management and estimating package.  I quickly realised that my interest lay in the technical side of computers rather than training and I quickly progressed from training to PC building and support and on to network and server support.  I am now a qualified HP/Compaq Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and since December 2012 have been a member of a system administrator team maintaining servers all around the world.