About Creadyne

Rick Carlile BA, MA (Hons.)

General Manager, Chief Project Manager

With over a decade's experience in the global IT industry, Rick has worked with numerous multinational corporations, including Interspire (www.interspire.com), BigCommerce (www.bigcommerce.com), ZyXEL Communications Corp. (www.zyxel.com), Hitron Technologies (www.hitron.com.tw) and Reach Investor Solutions (www.reachinvestorsolutions.com).

Originally from Scotland, Rick spends most of his time in the Asia-Pacific region.

He is also the founder and owner of Carlile Technical Communication (www.carliletech.com). In his spare time, Rick enjoys exploring and filming Asia's hidden treasures (www.hiddentaiwan.com).

In addition to his career in design, development and management, Rick has at various times in the past worked as a nightclub doorman and network engineer in Scotland, and as a language teacher, technical writer, journalist and martial arts instructor in Asia. He holds degrees in Commercial Music and Mental Philosophy.

Peter Rankin

Chief Technologist

After graduating with a diploma in Information Communication Technology in the UK, Peter started his corporate career at the age of 21 when he joined ZyXEL Communications Corp. (www.zyxel.com) as a technical specialist. He would later move onto networking giant D-Link (www.dlink.com) in 2008 in a similar role. Peter then joined Instek Digital (www.instekdigital.com), a provider of IP video security solutions, as a technical marketing specialist and manager where he had the power to innovate a number of cutting-edge techniques and increase sales.

As Chief Technologist, Peter's primary focus is to oversee developments from inception to completion, defining and implementing technical specifications, and ensuring client satisfaction.

Judy Chen

Administrator

A native of Taiwan, Judy showed an inquisitive spirit at an early age and traveled to New Zealand and Australia in the 1990s to learn English and absorb the culture.

The travel bug bit, and Judy has experience in a wide variety of business climates, living and working in corporate environments as far afield as Borneo, Korea, Taiwan and Germany.

An extremely experienced SCUBA diver and adventure traveler, she joins us from German semiconductor company DAS Europe (www.das-europe.com), where she coordinated national operations in Taiwan.

For each of us, what constitutes an ideal lifestyle is different. For one person, it may be urban Los Angeles; for another, rural Taiwan; for a third, constant global travel. One man's heaven is another's hell. What is true for  us all, however, is that the degree to which our lifestyle conforms to our ideals directly controls our overall wellbeing.

Only a fool would believe that an ideal lifestyle is one of idleness. Another common truth that connects us all is that in order to be truly fulfilled, a healthy person needs productive labor; physically or mentally energetic work that tests and exercises his or her innate talents and practiced abilities.

We live at a tremendous turning point in history. For the first time, the global everyman has technology at his fingertips that allows people distributed around the world to meet, collaborate, pool their resources, create - and earn. This opens up a vibrant world of lifestyle choices to anyone who has the forthrightness, the self-belief, and the understanding to take the plunge into freedom.

Unfettered by the noose tying the laborer to his farmstead, lathe or cubicle, the educated, intelligent common man of today can live wherever he is happiest, and sustain himself and his family in new ways that are only just beginning to be explored.

The Creadyne Mobile Office: not much in the way of creature comforts but the view's terrific.

 Freedom on the high seas

This is not for everyone; many are unprepared. Paradigm change is never without its casualties. Self-determination requires self-discipline, and decades of hierarchical corporate subservience has sucked that out of many people. The gilded cage of steady salaries, paid whether we earned them or not, created a bubble of illusory entitlement that let us forget what our ancestors knew without thinking; that action sustains life and that inaction means death.

But for the lucky few - a rapidly increasing number - the opportunity to pursue creative, rewarding, entrepreneurial goals in exciting new ways is a godsend, a chance to run at full speed while others trudge along, weighed down by mistaken assumptions.

Creadyne was formed by and for these New Freedmen - we work with people across the world who share many common characteristics as well as our common purpose; we tend to be young, technical, artistic, self-driven, self-reliant, questing, globally-minded, independent, collaborative, meritocratic, often expatriate. In fact, most of our clients exhibit these qualities as well!

We share the knowledge that free men and women, dynamically motivated, create wonderful things.

"Not forever by still waters would we idly rest and stay,
But would smite the living fountains from the rocks along our way"
Love Maria Willis, 1864