Hello, I was born overseas during the early 60s. I came to England when I was a few months old to the family home in Kent. I spent much of my childhood years digging holes in my dad\u2019s garden and climbing trees. At school, I studied a mixture of pointless subjects. During this time with the support of several teachers a keen interest in computer science and computer programming grew. Although the school didn\u2019t have its own computer, we used an acoustic coupler to connect a teleprinter to a timeshare system or to a nearby college offering BASIC. I took frequent visits to the college and learnt to program in SIR on their Elliott 903 computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I left school and worked for Marconi Elliott Automation as a Trainee Computer Programmer at their research and development base, FARL, in Chatham, Kent. This was a fun experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some very clever people. I made many new friends and extended my existing interest in ringing church bells, hiking and rock climbing. It was through bell ringing I met my wife, Donna, and we were married a year after we first met. We are still happily married and have two children. In 1984 I changed jobs and went to work for GEC Software in Covent Garden, London. With GEC Software I worked on the development of a range of configuration management, project management software and networking tools. It was during this period that I moved into general management and extended my skills and competence by attending management training at the GEC Management college in Dunchurch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the late 80\u2019s GEC Software merged with GEC Marconi Software Systems and we took the opportunity to move to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Here I was the general business manager of a small software development group working on a diverse range of products and technology. We lived in a small village, near Chester-le-Street, until the late 90\u2019s when I changed jobs again and moved to Lancashire to work for CSC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I am now retired, I have kept a strong interest in the details of computing and when bell ringing and geocaching permit I still like to spend time learning new skills, programming languages, and playing with my various home PCs. My new hobby for 2018 is searching for Ordnance Survey benchmarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a9 2016 – 2021 Ray Hutchings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello, I was born overseas during the early 60s. I came to England when I was a few months old to the family home in Kent. I spent much of my childhood years digging holes in my dad\u2019s garden and climbing trees. At school, I studied a mixture of pointless subjects. During this time with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}