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This is the personal website of web designer Steve Beer.
I have created this website for the following reasons:
Hello, my name is Steve Beer. I was born on Tuesday, 9th June, 1970 at 5:45 in the morning, in Purley, Surrey, England.
I share my birthday with Cole Porter (1893), Michael J Fox (1961), Johnny Depp (1963), Natalie Portman (1981) and Natasha Beer (2007).
I am the first child of Roger and Marion. My brother, Marc, arrived in September 1972.
My earliest childhood memories are of my home in Orpington, Kent.
After my parents split up in 1976 I moved to Reigate, in Surrey, with my dad, and my mum moved to France.
My mum married again to a Frenchman named Gilles. I have a sister, Claire, (1981), who lives in La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes and a brother, Romain, (1984), who lives in Rennes, Brittany. My French family have lived in Versailles (France), Niamey (Niger), Libreville (Gabon), Bordeaux (France) and Miami (USA).
My dad married again to a German named Helga. I have sister, Katarina, (1984), who lives in Surrey.
Other relatives include:
Aunty Chrissie Blount, (Dad's sister),
Uncle Roger and cousins Sam, Susie and Adam Blount
Aunty Betty, (Mum's sister), Uncle Douglas and cousin Alex Goodall
Aunty Jan and Uncle Michael, (Dad's brother), and cousins Simon and Matthew Beer
Uncles Jaques (with wife Aîcha), Michel and Frédéric (with partner Françoise) Carles, (Gilles' brothers) and lots of French cousins, (Leila, Nina & Yuri & Mélissa).
Grandmother Doreen Beer
Oma Anna Pfortner (Helga's mum)
Confused ? - see my family tree
NOT Redhill in Aberdeenshire, Moray, North Somerset, Nottinghamshire or Telford & Wrekin.
(also see my CV)
My formal education began at Crofton Infants School near Orpington in Kent. After we moved to Reigate in Surrey, I attended Doversgreen primary school. Reigate Priory Middle School, Redstone, (which became Warwick), Secondary School, and Reigate College followed. After a year of studying maths at Sussex university, I realised my choice of degree subject could have been better and decided to get a job.
Student work for Ratedale Security at Gatwick airport was fascinating but not much of a career prospect for me.
I got a job with BIS Banking Systems, (now Misys and also Midas Kapiti International), in Wimbledon, as a junior computer programmer. The in-house training is well known for its quality and I was soon proficient in the art of programming the midrange, (mainframe-style), computer known as the IBM AS/400. My job involved making changes to the back-office banking software using a black and green screen computer terminal.
After three years, the quest for a decent salary and a change from banking led me to the Generali Insurance IT department in the city of London. Here I worked on the insurance and accounting package known as IMACS. It was my job to customise the software to the users' requirements and fix any problems which arose.
After two years at Generali, I decided to"go contracting". I set up a limited company, (Progenuity Ltd.), and sub-contracted myself to an agency called TriSystems. Through the agency I have worked for companies such as AEGON Insurance, Albion Insurance, Assicurazioni Generali, Bimeh Iran, Bridgeway Management Ltd., REMI / CMGL / KPMG / Turegum / St James Claims Management, Dominion Insurance, Hitachi Credit, International Oil Insurers, Wurttembergische and Zurich Reinsurance.
I currently work for a very nice man called Jason of Hubbard Computer Services. We support the BPCS system of Atlas Copco and it's subsidiary companies.
I have acquired a host of PC skills which include Windows, word-processors, spreadsheets, databases, email and web design.
I live in the leafy suburbs of Redhill, Surrey, in a three bedroomed semi-detached house, with my wife Heather and our daughter Natasha.
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