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As much as I enjoyed the challanges of northern flying during my wonderful years at Calm Air, the weather and the reduced winter light was a bit hard on this southern girl, and last fall my husband and I made the move back below the 50th parallel. To Newfoundland, which is almost like home for this Cape Breton girl (yes she really does have seagulls in her eyes). Still I'm far from my boys and my family in Ontario and we'd consider moving there as well, I know it well after 20 yrs there. I'm always one to keep my options open. If you're in the market for an aviation specialist, particularily dispatch. Take a read over my resume and give me a call or drop me an email.

I had a long and varied career in many different sectors before returning to my first love - aviation. Including office management - taught me to be able to juggle many tasks and always prioritize. Advocacy - taught me how to deal with government offices and regulatory bodies and how to speak the bureaucrats' language. Newletter editor - taught me about communicating clearly and consisely. Customer Service - taught me how to deal with the public, and to handle customer complaints with an eye toward making everyone happy, customer and company alike. Print manager for a large international banking investment house - taught me to work independantly to critical time constraints, and manage enormous responsibity, and work with computer technical people via phone support and of course motherhood, which taught me how to put all the above together in a kind and loving way, and make sure multiple persons individual needs are all met - and everyone's out the door ontime.

However, through all that I never quit dreaming of flying. From the time I first discovered the joy of aviation while in the RCAFC it stayed with me. When my marriage broke down, and I found myself in need of building a new life and a new career, it was time to go back to what I loved. I started flying in 1997 at the Canadian Flight Academy in Oshawa Ontario, but it didn't take long to run out of money and funding, so I applied to Seneca College - School of Aviation and Flight Technology. Seneca's programme at that time was a competitive one, and I was one of only 150 out of 500 applicants accepted into first year to vie for 32 flying spots in 2nd year. Well I managed to be one of the 75 that survived semester one alas I did not make the cut at the end of the second semester. Still it was a great learning experience and I loved my time there. I still talk to some of my professors.

Honestly, when I left Seneca College's Aviation programme where I was studying not only aviation but general engineering as well, I was just looking for work that would pay the bills and let me keep flying. I found dispatching, and I am good at it, and I had serendipitously found the place I was most meant to be in the world. I still love flying, no doubt of that, but for professional happiness and satisfaction, dispatching is where I was most meant to be.

Over the years I've picked up a few more skills. My interest in computers and technology led me to learning something about hardware and software. Started with most of the most common Windows operating systems and applications and from there delved into the world of Linux computing, where I can now at least install a working linux operating system, and know how to use it when I do. I'm working on building home file servers and webservers next.

I consider myself one of the most fortunate people I know. I have a career I truly love and find satisfying. I'm good at it. I have the full support of my partner, who having spent his career in aviation - knows we move where the job is. Although I'm really looking for the place where we can settle down. I'd like to make my next cross country move my last, and move into a job and a place where I can put down roots.

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