Demian Carey Gibbins

 

I was quite into art. It was a very important part of who I was. So, when I graduated from high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, basically, and so I spent some time sort of searching for that. And I basically lived as an artist and just surfed and did art.

But there was a point in my life where I just realised I needed to make a decision about what I was going to do. And my mother had quite a big influence in that because she went through, you know, dental reconstruction and she got an insight into a world that she felt was appropriate for my set of skills, in the sense that she was watching dentists that did this amazing intricate work and still had this creative side to it.

I wasn't drawn to actually being a dentist, I was more drawn to the equipment that they used and the technology that surrounded it. So I began looking into engineering and, at first, I looked into studying medical engineering, and I actually found that my interests and my skills were better suited to a computer-based engineering discipline. And so I ended up working on teams that were developing laser scanners, and I specialised in digital design which is embedded computing.

It has led to excellent opportunities to be in positions of leadership and to maybe pursue more managerial positions. It has a very intriguing side to it and can be very challenging, and that's what I enjoy about it.