Damian Latimer Clarke

Damian Latimer Clarke (born January, 1971) is a writer, editor and publisher based in Sydney, Australia. He is also a keen recreational seaman and keeps a boat in Rushcutters Bay, near the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.In his comment on this video, he mentions that his boat is in the background of one of the shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrvHAMizro8
== Writing and editing ==
=== Journalism ===
As a journalist, he covers sustainability in the built environment for The Fifth Estatehttp://www.thefifthestate.com.au and The Green List,http://www.thegreenlist.com.au and occasionally contributes to other publicationshttps://suppleminds.org/portfolio-1. He undertakes copywriting work for a variety of clients and agencieshttps://suppleminds.org/digital-content and has edited several bookshttps://suppleminds.org/editing. 
As a writer/researcher for HWW, early in his career he wrote 30 columns per month for various Sydney and Australian newspapers and magazines.https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianlatimerclarke/
=== Blogging ===
In 2006, he started the Our Albion blog to share the story of renovating the house his wife and he purchased in London. Contributions to the blog reduced over the yearshttps://web.archive.org/web/2019*/ouralbion.com and it was finally taken down after being hacked and damaged. 
In 2019, he started re-publishing content from Our Albion on Mediumhttps://medium.com/our-albion, to coincide with the 13th anniversary of each post. His other work on Medium includes 97 Things I Learned as a Stay-at-home Dad,https://medium.com/97-things-i-learned-at-a-stay-at-home-dad and The Collected Works of Don Jenkinshttps://medium.com/me/publications, where the publishes the work of his late stepfather.
he also contributes to Medium as DC LatimerLook at the profile pic! https://medium.com/@DCLatimer, where he writes The Writers Block Project].https://medium.com/the-writers-block-project 
He was also the critic behind Universal Critic http://universalcritic.blogspot.com/ and teamed up with Damien Edmonds, co-founder of Edmonds Marketinghttps://www.edmondsmarketing.com.au/team/, to write opinion pieces for A Couple of Puntershttps://web.archive.org/web/20190508235421/http://acoupleofpunters.com/.
=== Editing ===
He has edited business books for several authors on subjects as diverse as international business, software testing, the photocopying and printing industry and computer software.
== Publishing ==
=== Credit ===
Clarke was publisher of Credit magazine, a multi-channel - events, magazines, books and online - publication about the wholesale Credit markets, owned by Incisive Media, from 2007 to 2008. He worked with author Nikki Marmeryhttp://www.nikkimarmery.com who was the magazine's editor at the time.
=== Creditflux ===
From 2004 to 2007, he was the publisher of Creditflux,http://www.creditflux.com a multi-channel - magazines, books and online - publication for wholesale credit derivatives traders, working for its proprietor, Mike Peterson.
=== The collected Works of Don Jenkins ===
In his own right, Clarke published The Collected Works of Don Jenkins, on Medium,https://medium.com/collected-works-of-don-jenkins a vanity project in memory of his stepfather.
== Business Careerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/damianlatimerclarke/==
Clarke started his career as a writer/researcher, running the Property Divison at HWW Limited, a media company that contributed to most Australian major daily newspapers and several monthly magazines. 
From there he moved into medical device Design and Development with Cochlear Limited, where he was the firm's first Technical Writer, working on software documentation and help files, marketing materials and regulatory submissions, including what is believed to be the first real-time 510(k) Premarket Notification submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (for the Nucleus 24 ESPrit ear-level speech processor).
Subsequently, he worked at Molten Markets, aggregating wholesale debt and equity broker research for funds managers, before returning to medical devices as a consultant in regulatory affairs, communication and quality systems to clients that included ResMed, Tinnitech and Neuromonics. 
He moved to the UK in 2006 where was the publisher of Credit and Creditflux until the Global financial crisis when returned to medical devices, industrial and non-destructive test equipment and consumer goods as Quality Manager at the Olympus KeyMed Group.https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0228540D:LN
Since returning to Australia in 2012, Clarke has been a freelance writer, journalist and publisher.
== Bibliography ==
=== Publisher ===
Organisation 	Date 	Publication 	ISBN/ISSN
The Fifth Estate	2018-2020	The Fifth Estate (Publishing director) 	
 	 	The Green List (Publishing director) 	
Incisive Media 	2007-2008	Credit 	ISSN 1466-5018
 	2007 	The 2007 ABC of Collateralized debt obligation 	
 	2008 	Islamic Finance 	
Creditflux 	2004-2006	Creditflux 	ISSN 1475-0716
 	2006 	Structured Credit and Credit Derivatives Essentials 	
 	2006 	Structured Credit and Credit Derivatives Glossary 	
 	2006 	Creditflux inside guide to: hedge fund strategies 	
 	2005 	Creditflux inside guide to: structured credit innovations 	
 	2005 	Creditflux inside guide to: who's who in structured credit & credit derivatives 2005	
 	2005 	Creditflux inside guide to: next-generation credit derivatives 	
=== Editor ===
Auuthor 	Title 	Publisher 	Date	ISBN/ASIN
Paul J Henderson	The Outcome Generation: how a new generation of technology vendors thrives through true customer success	Red Raven Books 	2018	
Cynthia Dearin 	Camels, Sheikhs & Billionaires: Your Guide to Business Culture in the Middle East and North Africa 	OMNE Publishing 	2015	
Michael Hamilton	It Should Just Work – Customer Satisfaction and the Value of Software Testing 	Australian eBook Publisher	2015	ASIN B015453ZDO
Mitchell Filby 	Rest in Print: from office printing to the rise of managed print services 	Open Book Creative 	2014	
=== Books: member of the research or writing team ===
Editor 	Title 	Publisher 	Date
Mike Peterson 	Creditflux inside guide to: who's who in structured credit & credit derivatives 2005	Creditflux 	2005
Anton Porter and Jad McAdam	When playing in the roses, watch out for the pricks: 1993 UTS Orientation Handbook 	UTS Student Association	1994
Jason Day 	The Directory of Training Programmes volume two 	Horan Wall & Walker 	1993
Tony Shannon 	Citiclub Getaways Guide 	Citibank Ltd, Sydney 	1993
Tony Shannon 	Citiclub Restaurant Guide 	Citibank Ltd, Sydney 	1993
Tony Shannon 	Sydney Restaurant Survey '93: The Horan Wall & Walker guide to where Sydney Eats Out	Horan Wall & Walker 	1992
Raffaela Pugliese 	The Directory of Training Programmes volume one 	Horan Wall & Walker 	1992
Tony Shannon 	1992 Sydney Eats Out: The Horan Wall & Walker Restaurant Survey 	Horan Wall & Walker 	1991
Tony Shannon 	Sydney Eats Out: The Horan Wall & Walker 1991 Restaurant Survey 	Horan Wall & Walker 	1990
== Education ==
Clarke spent his first years of school at Prouille Catholic School, Wahroonga, moved to the St Ives preparatory school for Sydney Grammar School in Year 3 and St Ignatius' College, Riverview in Year 7, where he shared classes with politicians Anthony Roberts, Jason Falinski, Joe Francis, basketballer Tony De Ambrosis and touch footballer Andrew Roughanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Riverview_Old_Ignatians. 
He has a Bachelor of Applied Science majoring in Information Science from the University of Technology Sydney.
== Personal Life ==
Damian is married to a woman who he calls Mrs Albion on his Our Albion bloghttps://medium.com/our-albion/you-should-never-apologise-for-your-success-but-decd65f794d8 or simply, my wife, in other writing, though he identified her as the banker, Kate Birchall in a tweet on 2016.https://twitter.com/DamianLClarke/status/761064011131527170 He has a sonhttps://medium.com/97-things-i-learned-at-a-stay-at-home-dad/15-if-you-eat-seasonal-food-they-must-be-convinced-they-like-it-again-next-season-fccc85411878 and a daughterhttps://medium.com/97-things-i-learned-at-a-stay-at-home-dad/21-when-you-have-a-daughter-you-will-become-a-feminist-f273c0315ee7 who he mentions in his writing, but rarely, if ever, by name.
== Sailing ==
From 2010, Clarke was active in Ocean Racing, participating in several major races in the UK and Australia, including the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, The Fastnet Race and the Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race. 
Date 	Organiser 	Race 	Yacht name 	Yacht type 	Skipper
2016 	 	 	 	 	
30 Jul	Cruising Yacht Club of Australia	Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race 	Helsal3 	Adams 20 pocket maxi 	Rob Fisherhttps://goldcoast.cyca.com.au/the-yachts/2016/helsal-3/
2015 	 	 	 	 	
25 Jul	Cruising Yacht Club of Australia	Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race 	Helsal3 	Helsal3 (Adams 20 pocket maxi)	Paul Jacksonhttps://goldcoast.cyca.com.au/the-yachts/2015/helsal-3/
2014 	 	 	 	 	
25 Oct	Cruising Yacht Club of Australia	Botany Bay Race (Ocean Pointscore Series) 	St George Midnight Rambler	Ker 40 	Ed Psaltis
2012 	 	 	 	 	
26 Dec	Cruising Yacht Club of Australia	Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race 	Merit 	Volvo 60 	Leo Rodriguezhttps://www.rolexsydneyhobart.com/the-yachts/2012/merit/
2011 	 	 	 	 	
14 Aug	Royal Ocean Racing Club 	Fastnet Race 	Wild Spirit 	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40 	Paul Jackson
27 May	Royal Ocean Racing Club 	Myth of Malham (Eddystone Lighthouse race)	Wild Spirit 	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40 	Paul Jackson
14 May	Royal Ocean Racing Club 	Channel Race 	Wild Spirit 	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40 	Paul Jackson
2010 	 	 	 	 	
26 Dec	Cruising Yacht Club of Australia	Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race 	Merit 	Volvo 60 	Leo Rodriguezhttps://rolexsydneyhobart.com/the-yachts/2010/merit/
24 Sep	Junior Offshore Group 	Cherbourg Race 	Wild Spirit 	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40 	Paul Jackson
3 Sep 	Royal Ocean Racing Club 	Cherbourg Race 	Vertigo 	J109 	Trevor Sainty
1 Jul 	Royal Ocean Racing Club 	Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race 	Wild Spirit 	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40 	Paul Jackson
11 Jun	Junior Offshore Group 	Alderny Race 	Floating Voter 	MAT 12 	John Sanders
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