A colleague has just taken redundancy from the laboratory here in the UK, and is moving his family to NZ, so is looking for work there. His wife is NZ born, so there is no problem with valid entry and work permits in NZ. He is Swedish. The family (they have a 4 month old daughter) are planning to travel some time in June/July, and have no fixed idea about where they want to live when they get there, so any suitable work and location is of interest. Qualification MSc in Space Technology, from a Swedish University. This involves about a 50/50 mix of electronics and programming, with embedded systems, emphasising redundancy and reliability. His wife has also been working in a division of the laboratory, but I am not sure of her qualification. He has worked at the lab here since graduating, and has just finished a project building up a calibration chamber for the instrument I have been working on. This has involved building a moving table inside a vacuum chamber so the sensors can be targeted by known energy levels from an x-ray illuminated target. This has all been controlled from a Labview/Labwindows environment for automation of the positioning system, and control of the x-ray emission level, allowing our flight sensors to be calibrated. He is a real nice guy, pretty amiable, into sports (plays in one of the Lab football (soccer) teams), and would fit into any environment. He is going to make a CV available, or I can forward replies on to him. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist