Born and educated in London England, Andrew qualified professionally as a Civil Engineer gaining experience in both engineering design and construction of major roads and marine projects throughout the United Kingdom. Next came dams, cement plants, water treatment plants and mining, acid and fertilizer process plants throughout southern Africa.
Later, Andrew decided upon a career change to pursue business and financial consulting and moving into international markets, undertook the sale of financial products for projects in Thailand, The Peoples Republic of China and the Fiji Islands.
Andrew has engineered his own writer's cottage on Mount Tamborine overlooking Australia's Gold Coast and has an extended family, been married to Lynne for over forty years and he holds dual nationality both in Australia and Great Britain.