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Aaron Heath (born July 1987) is an Australian web developer, blogger, traveller and sport enthusiast.
As a web developer he specialises in PHP, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, MySQL, C, Shell Script and AppleScript.

Early Life and Education:

Aaron was born in Adelaide (1987) and grew up in St Agnes which is a suburb in North Eastern Adelaide. He is the only child of Debbie and Raymond.

His mother works for a photocopier and fax selling company also in Adelaide. His father works for the Victorian Government.

During his pre-primary school years Aaron attended the Surrey Downs kindergarten.

From 1993 to 2000 Aaron was a student at Ardtornish Primary School which was the first place he became aware of and developed a passion computers.

After his successful completion of primary school he went on to attend Modbury High School from 2001 to 2005 when he successfully graduated year 12. His subjects in year 12 where Math Studies, Specialist Math (Half Year), Community Studies (Half Year), English Communications and Physics.

Life after High School:

After his completion of High School Aaron headed off to the UK for a nine month (February to November 2006) working holiday. He spent most of his time in Bradford, West Yorkshire and Glasgow, Scotland.

Upon his arrival back to Australia he has once again commenced cleaning at Wallbridge and Gilbert and BestFX once a week plus he also again commenced umpiring cricket with the South Australia Cricket Association.

Career:

Overview:
2001 – 2005: Australian Rules Umpire - Umpired in the Norwood Area from 7 year olds to 40 year olds.
2003 & 2004: Select Copiers – Work Experience through High School
2004 – 2007: Walbridge and Gilbert, Best FX - Cleaning Office Space
2004 – 2009: South Australia Cricket Association Umpire (SACA) - Umpired ‘A’, ‘B’ , ‘C ‘, & ‘D’ Grade, Under 14's & 16's plus U17 Cup and Country Carnivals.
2006 (Feb) – 2006 (Oct): PandA Engineering - The leading engineering firm in Bradford, United Kingdom.
2007 (Feb) – 2010 (Dec): Adam Internet in Adelaide, Australia.
2011 (Feb) – 2011 (May): bSkyb in Uddingston, Scotland.
2012 to present: Adam Internet in Adelaide, Australia.

Aaron started his working life when he was 13 by umpiring Australian Rules Football in the Norwood area.

In 2004 he started cleaning offices at Wallbridge and Gilbert and BestFX. Also in 2004 Aaron started his career as a cricket umpire by joining the South Australia Cricket Umpire Association which umpires games for the South Australian Cricket Association.

During his travels to the UK in 2006 Aaron worked for PandA Engineering in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He was there for 8 months and operated machinery used for milling and turning.

Upon his arrival back to Australia in late 2006 Aaron commenced working for the SACA again and has progressed into umpiring senior matches at the ‘C’ & ‘D’ Grade level. Due to work loads at his day job Aaron ceased umpiring in the summer of 2008/09.

In early 2007 Aaron started working for an ISP in Adelaide. He had continued to be employed at this firm while rising through the ranks until December 2010. He started as a casual Customer Service Officer in the companies Customer Service Department. Within three months he progressed to a full time member of this helpdesk and into the DSL faults team. Here he first started his interaction with the more technical side of DSL. After holding this position for a year he was promoted to Escalation Officer for the Customer Service department. He held this role for six months before being promoted to Team Leader of the departments DSL Faults team. He had progressed from a member of the team to the head of the team. Since then he had also taken over the role as VoIP and FTTH Team Leader. Along with his team managing duties he was also responsible for the smooth running of the companies front desk and the departments rostering (70+ full time and casual staff). This job holds a special place in Aaron’s heart and he has parted with the company on exceptionally good terms.

Over the last few years he has been expanded his skills to programming. He is constantly working on his own projects utilising his knowledge of C, PHP, Shell Scripts, AppleScript, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and MySQL. He keeps an up to date list of his projects at projects.aaronheath.com.

He has a number of private and retired projects however he also has a number of public viewable projects. They are:

* More information about each project can be found here.

In 2011 he spend the year in Glasgow, Scotland with a number of trips down to England to take in one of his favourite sports, football. During his time in the UK he visited places such as Bradford, Leeds, Blackburn, Bolton, Cardiff, Preston and of course Glasgow.

2012 saw Aaron return to Australia where he once again took up employemnt at Adam Internet.