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Home Contact details E-mail me	How can I start to introduce myself? Well, I could attempt to identify the reason why I have decided to have my own presence on the net ... Is it perhaps because anyone who (thinks he)'s anyone has his own home page these days? Okay, I guess some of us like to show off ... and there has to be a bit of that if you register your own name as a domain! I'd like to think, however, that my interests in hospitality, the law and Information Technology (in no particular order or preference) can best come together on a web site intended to share resources with those of like or similar interests.
	My interest in hospitality comes as a result of having attended a Diploma course in Hotel Administration at the Institute of Tourism Studies in my home country Malta. My industrial placements abroad were at the world-renowned Gleneagles Hotel in Perth, Scotland and the prestigious city centre Hotel Excelsior Ernst in Cologne, Germany.	Photos of Oliver (yes, me!) at a younger age Previous - Next
	I joined Le Meridien Phoenicia in April 1994, a hotel I sadly left to return to my former college, this time to instruct in Information Technology. During my employment at the Phoenicia I had the opportunity to work closely with the Systems Administrator on FIDELIO, a well-known Hotel Information System in Europe and increasingly in the US. In October 1997 I decided to follow a full-time course at the University of Malta, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal and Humanistic Studies (I opted for Philosophy). I started my LL.D. course in October 2000. I stayed on at the Institute of Tourism Studies, with my role concentrating on the actual administration of the academic system, utilising a collegiate management system known as SI:Vision - the leading student management system in the United Kingdom. I joined the consultancy team of SITS in January 2002. My work and studies leave me with little time or energy to pursue any sports or hobbies (or so I tell myself) but I have lately taken up SCUBA diving and I would venture to add that in this cut-throat world we live in, I prefer the breathtaking world down there ... I must own up to being a "gadget" fanatic. My first was a Cambridge Computers Z88, an A4-sized processor in 1987, followed by a Psion Series 3a, a Series 5, an Ericsson MC218 and more recently a Compaq iPAQ 3650. Related sites The Gleneagles Hotel Hotel Excelsior Ernst Le Meridien Phoenicia FIDELIO Institute of Tourism Studies University of Malta SITS Thank you - Hermine for scanning the photos on this page!