Saturday, January 28, 2012 04:25:54 PM AEST

      
      

Hi! My name is James Roger Collins. And I invented the CORE
technologies which make all of Web Management possible.

I was born in Nundah, Queensland, Australia in the early 1960's. Raised in the Brisbane suburb of Banyo, I had two older sisters, Susan, and Jan. I received my primary education at Nudgee State Primary School. There I had many fine friends, including Leslie Whittle, Michael Bourke, and the Moran boys, Mark and David. The love of my life at this time was Janette Clark, although we grew apart as the years went by, eventually becoming merely distant acquaintances. I have many memories of time spent playing school and toy cars with these and other children. I met Jacqueline Jenn in the school library when I first found a love for the written word. In 1975, my family moved to Kippa-Ring, just north of Brisbane on the Redcliffe Penninsula. This cut my High school life in Banyo State High School short, only spending the first term of grade 8 in that school. I left everything behind there. I never even got to say goodbye to Janette, and I often wondered what happened to her.

I went to Clontarf Beach State High School from 1975 until I completed my senior certificate in 1980. My Church life here was spent with Pastor Bert Clarke at Clontarf Beach Baptist Church, where I was baptised. There I was a Sunday School teacher along with another great love of my life, Allison Davis. In fact I had three girlfriends named Allison. The first was in grade 9 at Clontarf. Allison Williams was a girl who was quite keen on me and who I eventually went "steady" with that year. Allison and I worked in the School Library together, with myself becoming "Head Monitor". I virtually ran every aspect of the library at one time or another.
After the death of my father in 1982, my mother and I moved to the Redlands suburb of Victoria point in 1984. Here I attended Cleveland Baptist Church, and continued Sunday School teaching.        I also met Allison Coyne, who I had many interesting adventures with, such as teaching her how to drive. The most memorable episode being "Kangaroo Hopping" my Rally Corona down Adelaide St, while onlookers egged her on, at a very late hour of the night. We travelled to Brisbane together each day, myself working at various places in town such as the Myer store in Fortitude Valley, and Peter Rodger Advertising, in Gipps Street. In 1984 I bought a computer and by mid 1985, I left PRA under very amicable circumstances, as PRA moved into other areas, and I moved into Computer Programming Work. My first position was with Sperry Univac and involved working on their 1100/92 Mainframe. Sperry transferred me to Canberra in 1986, but I returned to the Redlands in late 1987 and married Jayne Doecke, the daughter of a Lutheran Pastor, in 1988. Jayne had been a teacher with my Sister Susan at the Faith Lutheran School in Victoria Point, and Sue had been playing "Matchmaker" for some time. Jayne and I settled in Victoria Point at first, with me running my own company, The Galaxy GateWay Computer System, and working for various companies in town as well. Jayne started at the then brand new school, Redlands College, the same year.

Our next move was out to a farm in the Brisbane Valley town of Minden. There we raised a couple of fine Friesian cows and I managed to collect 13 volkswagens. Time and Distance caused us to return to the Redlands in 1998. Jayne was still working at Redlands College and I was still getting work in town. The move back also saw a dramatic increase in the size and power of my business, as I started my first Pty Ltd Company. Internet 4 Free was a wonderful concept borne out of the Advertising Sponsored function of Galaxy GateWay. It offered Advertising Sponsored Internet Access. The Company was sold, lock, stock and barrel, in mid-1998. I was retained as a developer, but had no more say in the running of the company, which floundered and was eventually declared insolvent in September 2001, when it was running under the name of WebMatchIT.

       2002 saw my lady wife and I heading out for pastures new in a Winnebago 2054 Motorhome. We stayed in the motorhome until late that year, when we settled back to earth in Capalaba, the Redlands, once more. Here I founded a new company, "Web Management InterActive Technologies Pty Ltd", which I had registered in late 2001. I have poured the last few years into developing new and innovative technologies for use on the internet, pioneering inventions such as Gizmo, Gizmail, CORA, DIY Web Pages, and working for other companies around Brisbane.

       Since the inception of Network Technologies I have been campaigning to get a sensible system of protection for the people of Australia who use online services. In 2003, I used the CORE technologies that run Web Management to produce what I call the "Protected Network". In 2007, I started campaigning heavily to get Government support behind this project since I had not got anywhere with the private sector. As of the last update of this page, that struggle is still continuing, in 2009.

 

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