Damian Latimer Clarke

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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..

Writing and editing

Journalism

As a journalist, he covers sustainability in the built environment for The Fifth Estate, The Green List and their special reports, and occasionally contributes to other publications. He undertakes copywriting work for a variety of clients and agencies and has edited several books.

As a writer/researcher for HWW, early in his career he wrote 30 columns per month for various Sydney and Australian newspapers and magazines.

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 years and it was finally taken down after being hacked and damaged. In 2019, he started re-publishing content from Our Albion on Medium, 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, and The Collected Works of Don Jenkins, where the publishes the work of his late stepfather. he also contributes to Medium as DC Latimer, where he writes The Writers Block Project.

He was also the critic behind Universal Critic and teamed up with Damien Edmonds, co-founder of Edmonds Marketing, to write opinion pieces for A Couple of Punters

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

The Fifth Estate

He was publishing director of The Fifth Estate and The Green List from 2018 to 2019, working with the proprietor and publisher, Tina Perinotto and contributed journalism under his own name at the same time.

Credit

He 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 Marmery who was the magazine's editor at the time.

Creditflux

From 2004 to 2007, he was the publisher of Creditflux, 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, a vanity project in memory of his stepfather.

Business Career

He started his career at 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 he 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.

Since returning to Australia in 2012, he 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 CDOs
	2008	Islamic Finance
Creditflux	2004-2006	Creditflux	ISSN 1475-0716
	2006	Structured Credit and Credit Derivatives Essentials	ISBN 978-1905450060 Search this book on .
	2006	Structured Credit and Credit Derivatives Glossary	ISBN 978-1905450077 Search this book on .
	2006	Creditflux inside guide to: hedge fund strategies	ISBN 978-1905450053 Search this book on .
	2005	Creditflux inside guide to: structured credit innovations	ISBN 978-1905450046 Search this book on .
	2005	Creditflux inside guide to: who's who in structured credit & credit derivatives 2005	ISBN 978-1905450008 Search this book on .
	2005	Creditflux inside guide to: next-generation credit derivatives	ISBN 978-1905450039 Search this book on .

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	ISBN 978-0648216100 Search this book on .
Cynthia Dearin	Camels, Sheikhs & Billionaires: Your Guide to Business Culture in the Middle East and North Africa	OMNE Publishing	2015	ISBN 978-0994244208 Search this book on .
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	ISBN 978-0992364502 Search this book on .

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

He 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 and Joe Francis, basketballer Tony De Ambrosis and touch footballer Andrew Roughan.

He has a Bachelor of Applied Science majoring in Information Science from the University of Technology Sydney.

Personal Life

He is married to a woman who he calls Mrs Albion on his Our Albion blog or simply, my wife, in other writing, though he identified her as the banker, Kate Birchall in a tweet on 2016. He has a son and a daughter who he mentions in his writing, but rarely, if ever, by name.

Sailing

From 2010 to 2016, he 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	CYCA	Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race	Helsal3	Adams 20 pocket maxi	Rob Fisher
2015
25 Jul	CYCA	Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race	Helsal3	Helsal3 (Adams 20 pocket maxi)	Paul Jackson
2014
25 Oct	CYCA	Botany Bay Race (Ocean Pointscore Series)	St George Midnight Rambler	Ker 40	Ed Psaltis
2012
26 Dec	CYCA	Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race	Merit	Volvo 60	Leo Rodriguez
2011
14 Aug	RORC	Fastnet Race	Wild Spirit	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40	Paul Jackson
27 May	RORC	Myth of Malham (Eddystone Lighthouse race)	Wild Spirit	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40	Paul Jackson
14 May	RORC	Channel Race	Wild Spirit	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40	Paul Jackson
2010
26 Dec	CYCA	Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race	Merit	Volvo 60	Leo Rodriguez
24 Sep	JOG	Cherbourg Race	Wild Spirit	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40	Paul Jackson
3 Sep	RORC	Cherbourg Race	Vertigo	J109	Trevor Sainty
1 Jul	RORC	Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race	Wild Spirit	Jeanneau Sun Oddysey 40	Paul Jackson
11 Jun	JOG	Alderny Race	Floating Voter	MAT 12	John Sanders

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