Leo Perrault:  

Life Initially out of School after some odd jobs I went to work Sooter Studios in Northern Manitoba. After a short time with them I decided I wanted something a bit more stable and joined the CAF. It was a great education but the military life was not for me so I left and went to work for Sask Tel. About the same time in 1977 I married my wife Anita who is from Brownlee. After a few years at Sask Tel I moved again to work for Esso Resources in Swan Hills Alberta. I stayed with them for about 9 years in Swan Hills and then for another two at Quirk Creek just south of Calgary. After I was with Esso a few years they found I had a knack for Projects so most of my time with them was doing project work. We lived in Okotoks until 1997. When I left Esso in 1990 We started our own Company, Bits and Bytes Software Corp.. We were packaging and developing shareware but before long I was back doing SCADA projects for Spartan Controls while Anita ran the manufacturing and Marketing of the Shareware Products. We ran both groups for about three years but we were both working 16-hour days and we soon realized we really needed to be working less so we shut down the retail software group. In 1994 Spartan convinced me to come on board as the Manager for SCADA Projects so Anita was left alone to manage the company until 1997 when we shut it down as well. The work at Spartan was great when I had started doing Scada Projects for them in 1991 I think there were 4 of us. When I left in 1997 I had a group of 55. During my time at Spartan we had done a number of International projects and I had traveled to Singapore and China to assist & train staff for Fisher Controls who was one of Spartan Principals. In September of 1997 while I was working with them in China they offered me a three-year contract as the Oil and Gas Consultant for Asia Pacific Based out of Singapore. My ro...Expand for more