About Me

This is a quick time line of me ......

Born on November 18 1963. Eldest son of Salvatore and Emanuela Arrigo. Big Brother of Rita & Danny
Went to primary school at St Columba’s Primary School, Elwood, from 1970 to 1975
Went to high school at CBC StKilda from 1976 to 1981
Went to university at Chisholm Institute of Technology (which is now part of Monash University) from 1982 to 1984
Joined ASPECT Computing as a graduate in 1984
Moved to Canberra at the end of 1990
Got married to Moira in Feb 1991
Started at Microsoft in May 1991 as a Systems Engineer
Antony was born in 1991. He is a big boy now
Billy was born in 1993. He is also a big boy
I got a job at Microsoft Corp and moved to Seattle in ‘93
Did a bunch of cool stuff - but it was hard for Moira with the 2 boys
Moved back to Australia at the end of ’95, joining the local MSN team
Worked as the MSN technical director for a number of years until the ninemsn venture came along
Emma was born in 1997. My princess
I moved over to ninemsn as CTO - was involved in setting up all operation & development systems.
I ‘returned’ to Microsoft in 1999 and did business development for digital media
Brice was born in 2000 - Our baby
I spent 2 years travelling around Asia - it got pretty tiring.
July 2001, I stopped the travel and joined a new group and got a new title - Evangelist
July 2002, I got a promotion to Group Manager, and had 3 people in my team.
In July 2004, the team had grown to 7 and I had responsibilies across Australia & New Zealand. The team works with Developer, Academic and IT Professional communities
If you do a search on google images for ‘Frank Arrigo’ - you will find some lovely photos of me!

So that takes us to now…

Moira and I celebrated our 14 year anniversary in Feb 2005
Antony is in Year 8 at North Sydney Boys High School, a selective NSW Government school.
Billy is a prefect in Grade 6 and goes to St Ives North Public School
Emma is in the Grade 2 (2A) class at Pymble Ladies College
Brice started school this year. He is in Kindie (KPS) at St Ives North Public School
I am a mad/passionate/pathetic St.Kilda supporter, and I have been a member for the past 20 years.
Billy used to play Aussie Rules in NorthsideJunior Australian Football Association.
We live in St Ives. We celebrated 5 years at the same place, a record, in November 2004.
I celebrate my 14 year anniversary at Microsoft in May 2005.

I have a number of personal home pages floating around the web