My name is Raymond Hilder. I am from Burnie originally. I studied a Bachelor of Science course in Hobart at the University of Tasmania in the 1980s, and this was undertaken over a period of 5 years, with various course changes. My eventual majors were in computer science and mathematics. I have one brother, Tom Hilder, who also attended the University of Tasmania. He completed a bachelor of science at roughly the same time.

This is the story of our student days, told through my photographs.

I was recruited by the Australian Tax office and moved to Canberra at the start of 1990, I worked in the National Taxpayer Area in the NTS ALERT area, and this IT team maintained lodgement enforcement and accounting tax agent sub system programs. Later in 1992, I was promoted into the Automated Data Capture area. I worked there for five years transferring to the HWI team(Large Business International Area) for 2 years, then taking one year’s leave to study the Bachelor of Teaching course in Hobart. My brother Tom also studied the same course, except he studied primary teaching and I studied secondary. I completed half of the Teaching course; I returned to work in 2000 and was retired from the Australian Taxation Office in 2005. I was employed as a Consultant with Dialog Information Technology in 2011 for 2 months being out posted to a government agency. I have been undertaking various studies in the last 2 years completing a TAFE Certificate, and one unit of a postgraduate course with the Australian Computer Society.

About the author: Raymond Hilder studied science at the University of Tasmania where he majored in mathematics and computer science. This led him to a career in taxation. He has continued with his studies since leaving taxation.