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Patrick is an Electronic Engineer who has worked for several multi-national companies, both in South Africa and in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Much of his experience has been as part of large and small R&D technical teams designing and developing hi-tech electronic products.

After completing his Masters of Electronic Engineering in 1989, he joined Ziton as part of their R&D design team, designing fire detection equipment.

In 1992 he relocated to the UK from South Africa and joined GPT Video Systems’ (Now Marconi) R&D team where he was responsible for designing and developing the electronic hardware for several subsystems of the company’s latest Video Conferencing products, working on projects in the UK and internationally.

In 1997 he joined 3Com’s international R&D team (spanning UK, Ireland & USA) designing Application Specific Integrated Chips (ASICs) for the company’s latest Gigabit Ethernet technology for LAN Superstack II and III Switches. He is also the co-author of several USA and UK 3Com networking patents.

In 2004 he returned to South Africa and completed a full time MBA at UCT’s Graduate School of Business.

Upon completion of the MBA, Patrick founded Precision Networks in mid 2005, which is an IT Networking company providing professional and affordable networking and IT solutions to SMEs.

Over the years Precision Networks has also formed strategic partnerships with many companies and moved offices to Cape Town’s CBD in May 2008 as part of a strategic move to engage SME companies more actively in the CBD area.

2013 is now the 8′th year of trading and the company is growing steadily despite the difficult current economic climate. In fact the company was nominated in the Trade category for the 2012 SMME Awards.

When not busy with the “serious stuff”, Patrick can be found playing football or building lego with his son John and daughter Meghan (yes she loves trains and lego) or drinking good wine with his “better half” Wine Journalist Joanne.