About Me

For most information about me, see my CV, but for the specifics not included there, here is some more about me.

I am Mark Ian Winter, son of Marilyn Ann and James Ian, and I was born at 3:47am on 18th March 1978 at Nether Edge Hospital in Sheffield, weighing 3kg 350g. I have one brother, Stephen Gary, born on 26th March 1973, who now lives in Oxford with his girlfriend, Kelly. I currently live at home with my parents whilst studying for my degree at Sheffield Hallam University. My mother works as a Practice Nurse at Sheffield Hallam University, my father is Technical Manager for Dyson Refractories and my brother a Research Scientist for Medisense UK. My girlfriend is Sam and she currently works in sales for R.A. Roberts (Office Equipment). I love football and am an Owl (Sheffield Wednesday) supporter. I am very much into dance music, and I mix, and although I have never properly DJ'd in a club, I have provided at private functions for close friends and family, and worked as an assistant DJ in a bar In Sheffield city centre. I was once offered the chance to DJ the opening night of a new club in Nottingham on New Year's Eve of 1997, but, regrettably, I just missed out on it. Currently, I am pitching ideas to my Student Union, which has it's own nightclub, about a night I would be interested in both arranging and DJ'ing, so I will have to wait and see if anything comes about from that.

Although my degree is a Bsc (Hons) Hotel and Tourism Management, along the way I have decided that I would rather follow my main interest, music. That is not to say, however, that I am willing to throw away everything I have learned so far. Instead, my realistic aim is to combine the two and begin a career in nightclub, bar or entertainment venue management. My dream would be to go to an eastern country that hasn't yet discovered the joys of dance music on a large scale, (for example Tunisia) and be the first to set the wheels (of steel) in motion there. Ideally, with a lottery win, I would be able to build my own pre-bar and club, but a problem might be that I'd probably want to manage and DJ them simultaneously!