Staff Profile

Rowan Cooke Rowan Cooke

In the first of our staff profiles, we catch up with Rowan Cooke. Originally hailing from New Zealand, Rowan has been a Project Manager with Lateral for 1 1/2 years and comes from a web design background. If she wasn't working as a Project Manager in IT, she'd love to be saving Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa.
Find out more about Rowan..... 

Music I'm listening to...
At the moment I love listening to Black Holes and Revelations by Muse and Zeitgeist by The Smashing Pumpkins
 
Books I'm reading...
I’ve always got a few books on the go!
* Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
* The War of the World by Niall Ferguson
* Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson

Shows I'm watching...
Summer Heights High
 
Websites I'm hitting...
twit.tv to pick up the latest technology podcasts and Facebook to throw sheep at my English cousins!
 
What gets me fired up...
The All Blacks losing another World Cup
 
What makes me happy...
Being in the company of good friends and loved ones
Visiting my family in NZ (and then coming back to warm Sydney)
Client satisfaction and personal achievements in my job
New experiences and challenges
 
My drink of choice is...
Only one? It has to be Speight’s Beer (Pride of the South)…. mate
 
My last meal would consist of...
Whitaker's Peanut Slab
Slice of chocolate mud cake from the Kirribilli Deli
Packet of Twisties
Cookie Time (original)
Bangers 'n mash with gravy and onions
My dad’s pork roast…
And a slab of Speight's

My favourite quote is...
"The person who said they never had a chance, never took a chance."