Posts by Colt Technology Services

The most influential person in my life is my mum, for all the reasons that you’d say your mum. She’s an incredibly strong woman. We moved a lot when I was young because my dad was in the army – from Tunisia to South Africa, Gabon, the U.S., London, France, then back to Tunisia. When…

Running a marathon is like throwing yourself into the dark – it’s frightening. Professional coaches say you should never run the marathon distance in training, only on the day, because it’s too much for the body to handle. Imagine, I’d only ever run 25 kilometres before, so during the marathon when I arrived at that…

Having completed my A-levels I was not convinced that continuing further education was the right option for me, and so I set about considering what I could do next. I was successful in joining the royal Marines, a rather different and very challenging experience. The 6 years that I spent in the Marines were a…

The night of the week I look forward to most is when I head out to the deepest depths of Essex with my trusty Gibson guitar in the trunk of the car to jam the night away in a three-piece rock band (still looking for a lead guitarist). Lead singer and rhythm guitar is my…

I love astronomy and taking pictures of astronomical events – I actually did a presentation to my colleagues a few months ago on it. It’s something outside the realm of the everyday. I’m interested in phenomenons that exist beyond our world and our atmosphere. It began ten years ago or so: when my daughter was…

My little brother is 12 years younger than me and over the last year or so, he’s been saying to me that I’m  the father he’s never had. That makes me feel really proud. We grew up in Enna, in Sicily, and it was a difficult childhood – we grew up without a father, so…

In 2009, the company I was working for at the time paid for me to come to the UK and study English. I’d been in Venezuela for 27 years so naturally, I was so excited. I remember when I landed and I got on the tube, I saw someone wearing a burqa for the first…

I think the most exciting project I’ve worked on at Colt is the one I’m working on at the moment, which is a network-on-demand platform for our customers. It’s a groundbreaking platform. It really changes the game for how people access our services – things that used to take days to deliver now take minutes.

I was brought up in a very conservative family in a strict atmosphere. Being the only girl in the house, my family was extremely protective of me. Growing up in this environment made me want to prove to the world that I am no less than a son. I consciously pushed myself to do everything…