Artefact — Non-IT working history

Status: stub for the visual treatment. The roles are final; the presentation lands in Phase 7.

The roles

Role	Where	What it involved
Chalet chef	Merribel, France	Meals for chalet guests, kitchen operations, menu planning, dietary requirements, in a high-pressure alpine season
Wine waiter	South Australia and Victoria	Premium wine regions, varietals, food pairing
Horseback tour guide	Victorian high country	Guided tours, rider safety, horse welfare, trail navigation
Stable construction	Mount Beauty, Victoria	A 24-bay stable build — project management, budgeting, hands-on construction
Civil servant	Victorian State Government, Melbourne	Administrative and operational support to state-level programs
Horse trainer and stable hand	Sunbury, Victoria	Care and training of thoroughbreds, exercise, grooming, race-day preparation

What it proves

That the engineering sits on a wider working life. Kitchen service and production incidents share a shape; guiding strangers on horses in the high country is risk management with consequences; a stable build is a budget and a schedule held by hand. These are the reasons the technical pages read as practical rather than academic.

Why this is on a technical site

Because leaving it out would make the career look narrower than it is, and because the years it occupies are otherwise unexplained.

Coverage limit

Descriptions are limited to what the résumé and the evidence notes corroborate. Roles, employers’ towns and the type of work are stated; no employer is named beyond the region, and no claim is made about scale, revenue or headcount that the sources do not carry.