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Basic Info| Name: | Lev Lafayette |
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| Location: | Kew, Victoria State, Australia |
| Website: | http://www.levlafayette.com |
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lev@levlafayette.com BioI was born in Invercargill, New Zealand and forcibly given up for adoption. Kidnapped shortly after birth, I was raised in an orphanage run by the Sisters of Mercy and by a paranoid-schizophrenic step mother in Perth, Western Australia.
Completing high school of "independent means", I attended Murdoch University from 1986 to 1993. During my time there I was an active member of the Student Guild and was elected vice-president three times in succession against candidates backed by the major political parties. I also started a genre fiction club (the Murdoch Alternative Reality Society) which continues to this day, and wrote a roleplaying supplement (Rolemaster Companion VI). My undergraduate degree is in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology (with honours equivalent to a magna cum laude in U.S. universities).
In 1994 I moved to Melbourne, Australia, and started a PhD entitled "A Social Theory of the Internet". I was employed by various members of the Victorian Parliament from 1997-2002 in a range of administrative, advocacy and technical roles. In 2001 I started the group Labor for Refugees which became a major non-factional and interstate lobby group within the ALP to end mandatory detention and temporary protection visas; in 2008 both these objectives were achieved.
In 2002 I visited East Timor for their Presidential elections as the only UN Observer nominated by an Australian political party and later that year I returned to take up the role of the Information and Communications Technology Advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation for the Democratic Republic of East Timor. I have a reference from Jose Ramos-Horta on my work there. Upon my return to Australia I transcribed Cliff Morris' English-Tetun dictionary for the public domain.
I am employed by the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing where I am a systems administrator working with high-performance scientific supercomputers and the coordinator for the ISO-standards; I recently completed (July 2011) a Masters in Business Administration, specialising in Technology Management, at the Chifley Business School.
In 2008 I contributed most of three chapters for the Rolemaster Classic supplement Campaign Law. I have completed a political study of Dr. Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia which is due for publication this year along with a roleplaying system based on "historical fantasy". I also spend some time reviewing gaming products at RPG.Net and science fiction and fantasy literature for Ticonderoga.
I regularly give presentations or conduct the service at the Melbourne Unitarian Church. I am also a past president of Prosper Australia, a taxation reform group, thePublic OfficerPresident for Linux Users Victoria.
I have been described as similar to Johnny Cash's Man in Black; and not on account of the dominant colour of clothing I wear. I live at Willsmere, which I guess makes me an ex-asylum resident. Repeated Myers-Brigg evaluations deem me an ENTJ; I do try to be aware of the potential flaws.
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Completing high school of "independent means", I attended Murdoch University from 1986 to 1993. During my time there I was an active member of the Student Guild and was elected vice-president three times in succession against candidates backed by the major political parties. I also started a genre fiction club (the Murdoch Alternative Reality Society) which continues to this day, and wrote a roleplaying supplement (Rolemaster Companion VI). My undergraduate degree is in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology (with honours equivalent to a magna cum laude in U.S. universities).
In 1994 I moved to Melbourne, Australia, and started a PhD entitled "A Social Theory of the Internet". I was employed by various members of the Victorian Parliament from 1997-2002 in a range of administrative, advocacy and technical roles. In 2001 I started the group Labor for Refugees which became a major non-factional and interstate lobby group within the ALP to end mandatory detention and temporary protection visas; in 2008 both these objectives were achieved.
In 2002 I visited East Timor for their Presidential elections as the only UN Observer nominated by an Australian political party and later that year I returned to take up the role of the Information and Communications Technology Advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation for the Democratic Republic of East Timor. I have a reference from Jose Ramos-Horta on my work there. Upon my return to Australia I transcribed Cliff Morris' English-Tetun dictionary for the public domain.
I am employed by the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing where I am a systems administrator working with high-performance scientific supercomputers and the coordinator for the ISO-standards; I recently completed (July 2011) a Masters in Business Administration, specialising in Technology Management, at the Chifley Business School.
In 2008 I contributed most of three chapters for the Rolemaster Classic supplement Campaign Law. I have completed a political study of Dr. Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia which is due for publication this year along with a roleplaying system based on "historical fantasy". I also spend some time reviewing gaming products at RPG.Net and science fiction and fantasy literature for Ticonderoga.
I regularly give presentations or conduct the service at the Melbourne Unitarian Church. I am also a past president of Prosper Australia, a taxation reform group, the
I have been described as similar to Johnny Cash's Man in Black; and not on account of the dominant colour of clothing I wear. I live at Willsmere, which I guess makes me an ex-asylum resident. Repeated Myers-Brigg evaluations deem me an ENTJ; I do try to be aware of the potential flaws.
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aesthetics, anarchism, australia, cycling, east timor, economics, history, indonesia, isocracy, land tax, linguistics, literature, livejournal, management, mimesis, murdoch university, mythology, new zealand, philosophy, politics, pragmatism, roleplaying games, science, secular humanism, sensuality, social theory, sociology, systems administration, tetum, the internet, transhumanism, zoology
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Schools:
Newman College - Perth, WA, Australia (1978 - 1985)Perth Modern School - Perth, WA, Australia (1985)
Murdoch University - Perth, WA, Australia (1986 - 1993)
University of Melbourne - Melbourne, VIC, Australia (1994 - 2002)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2004)
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE - Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2005 - 2006)
Chifley Business School - Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2008 - 2012)
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