No, Leica Geosystems Machine control division, specifically research and development, never worked for CR Kennedy. R&D had an office in the city don’t know now it took a bit of a downturn
Ahh…I worked for CRK for 5 years or so supporting Leica and Riegl 3D scanners. Mainly for the Surveying industry, but also for forensics, archaeology, forensics, engineering etc. Great scanners if you have $100k plus to spend 
Yeah we had a few of those toys around the office. don’t suppose in your travels in W.A. you came across a surveyor named Michael hilditch? Im not a friend of his just know him from about 20 years ago. or you might know Allan Aechabold he was with trimble and CR and then directly for Leica
No, but I did work with Trevor Ley at CRK Perth, he is ex-Leica Switzerland.
Yeah, the name is familiar. I was in Zug directly for Hexagon, trying to sort out an autonomous drill and blast rig, but not involved with Leica over there. So what do you do now? I went back into oil and gas, but I’m a bit over the hill for that now! p.s. your Farrier wasn’t up in bundy during the 2011 floods was it?
I work for myself, teaching 3D scanner owners how to create 3D models from their scans.
I have 25 years of experience to share.
No, I brought my Farrier F9-AX over from the West Coast to the East Coast in 2016, but it did survive the recent Cyclone Alfred a few months ago. The storm came directly over our island, the boat was on a swing mooring in between Russell and Nth Stradbroke Island. A dozen other boats sank but mine was OK.
yeah i had a 50" steel hull home built but i was always O/S so sold it, now i wish i had it! probably time to build again. well hell that’s a good job, yeah i started out as a chain-man in survey doing civil construction back in the 90s that’s where it all started for me and i was on the first machine control project in Australia so 3D cad was the norm for me, programming and electronics was a hobby and when i started solving problems for a few company’s I started getting sent where there were issues.
When I started working with 3D scanner Point Clouds 25 years ago ($300,000 Cyrax) I couldnt have even imagined that something like my Revo MIRACO could even be possible
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I know its a bit nuts right! it is funny but when i was working in the machine control industry for the first time we had some crazy grand plans ( we were a small company that got acquired) of things we wanted to do but simply the tech did not exist e.g. dust repellent lens coatings, and now in my office is a prototype for the next generation of machine control it has everything we dreamed about in those days! so i would say the early twinklings of a thought to reality was 25 years. today i think it is les than 10