Rob Hitchings brief resume’

Born London 1950   Age 61 – single (divorced)

BA Hons Industrial Design (Engineering) [product design Arts Degree]

Immediately after qualifying I went self-employed as a free-lance designer/engineer/inventor. Was married at 20 and divorced at 29, with no children. Worked together with wife as a happy team – until the last year.

1980 Founded UK based NGO - ApT Design and Development (now www.aptenterprise.co.uk) where I was primary designer for small enterprise workshop equipment, wrote and illustrated construction manuals and ran many training courses overseas.These ran for 6-8 weeks in a variety of countries from Botswana to Sri Lanka. Developed a wide range of equipment for small scale enterprises from metal-working equipment to rice de-hullers. In 1990 I left the company and moved to Zimbabwe and a year later to South Africa where I have lived for the last 20 years.

In latter years my work has included woodworking – furniture restoration, building marimbas (musical instrument) and drums and a low cost solar cooking device. Low cost wind pumps were also a part of my early exposure to development work along with setting up and equipping workshops for training. I have recently been researching and giving thought to the design of low-cost water wheel for a small community project in Portugal.

Skills include plumbing, welding, electrical, building, carpentry, glazing, fiber-glass mould-making, car repair. I can turn my hand, creative mind and skills to almost any household or small-community scale project.

I am fairly computer literate with some web design experience. I can also copy and edit music or recordings of talks - audio and video. Have put some video on You Tube. Have my own web site and blog. I love editing and copy-writing.

Hobbies – writing, playing piano, keyboards, drums, guitar, cycling, walking, yoga, meditation, healthy eating, sacred geometry, renewable energy, wood-gas and efficient wood-stoves.

Have lived in spiritual communities both in UK (9 years) and South Africa (5 years). Instigated and co-run many events and workshops of a spiritual/personal growth nature. E.g. multi-racial fair for body, mind, spirit. E.g. Holotropc Breathwork, drum circles and shamanic drum journeys.

Have written a spiritual novel called “Before Creation – I AM” and am writing a work-book to go with it. I had 30 copies printed digitally and am planning to self-publish this on Amazon.com I also plan to run workshops based on these books and to write two more books as a trilogy

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