Who is Digital Environmentalist?

Hello eReaders!
Welcome to my professional world - my new extended blog mainly dedicated for my academic endeavour in the field of civil and environmental engineering, including urban planning, environmental management, and real estate development. Why on those areas? I will explain why my academic interests focused on them by giving you the stages of my learning process, from inside the classroom to the outside world of living.
I did my bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in a state university but prior to that course, I did a 3-year diploma in Civil Technology at the same school. At the age of 19, I started working full time in the university, while taking classes during the evening. Upon completion of BS degree, I took the state board/licensure exam and fortunately I passed it. Eventually, I decided to resign from my first job and joined a local council/government planning office. From that work as a Planning Officer, my interest in planning and enviromental issues grew as the years past until I attended a 20-month postgraduate program in urban planning at the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) with a full scholarship grant.
My third job offered me alot of opportunities in the development and management of environmental and business trainings for professionals in developing countries. Time flies, I decided to go back to my home country and applied my knowledge gained from working abroad. But after 7 years, I decided to go back again to school to further hone my expertise which I took a research program in environmental engineering at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). Fortunately I got an AusAID scholarship for two years and after that I went back to my home country again and I joined a consulting firm which mainly manages foreign funded environmental projects. With my dedication to my work, it seems that Ive been working in that firm for so many years, but in reality I only stayed for one year. I love my work but I have to grab the rare opportunity to take a doctoral program abroad (Northern Ireland, UK) with full scholarship! Well, the rest is still on-going ...

Time flies and it is almost 5 years now when I embarked in my doctoral program. It is a struggle and I do hope that by early 2011 I will successfully submit my revised thesis for the conferment of my degree. I did pass the oral defence a year ago, but it is just Im already burned out and for the past months, I strugged to look for job opportunities elsewhere, consequently affected my focus and motivation to sit-down and finish my corrections. Anyway, no regrets at all and Im very optimistic to hurdle this personal struggle and be able to achieve what I really wanted in life!