Cliff was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia, USA where he lived until he was 21 then moved to Indianapolis where his IT Career began. Cliff has 25 years experience in the IT industry working in various roles from small businesses with up to 500 users in America, to being a senior IT Tutor teaching courses in Microsoft Certified System Engineering, a Solutions Architect, operating his own company servicing home and SME clients running Windows, Linux, Netware, Solaris, BSD and most recently an Infrastructure and Project Engineer.

Cliff met his wife and moved to New Zealand in 2000. He is a father and a grandfather, and also a musician who's played bass for 30 years and various other instruments like trombone, tuba, baritone, and trumpet earlier on. He enjoys photography, and playing / loosing in basketball to his youngest child.