Pepeha
Kia ora tātou
Ngā mihi au ki te maunga ō Maungakiekie
Ngā mihi au ki te moana o Hauraki
Ko Kōtirana te whenua ō ōku tīpuna
Ko Tāmaki Makaurau te whenua tupu
Kei Ōtepoti au e noho ana
He kaiwhakahaere au i CloudCannon
He tangata Tiriti ahau
Ko Andrew tōku ingoa
Tēnā tātou katou
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Ko wai au?
I'm pākeha (tangata Tiriti) based in Otepoti, New Zealand. I'm currently Head of Customer Experience at CloudCannon and a parent, cat owner, elderly footballer, intermittent noise maker, collector of records and dietary challenged. Formally, a business owner, academic, radio host, Tāmaki Makaurau citizen and other forgotten things.
Ānaru
At an earlier job we celebrated Te Wiki o te Reo Māori every year. As part of this activity we took it a step further by referring to each other by the Māori translation of our names. I loved this and felt it a genuine honour being called Ānaru everyday –particularly by my Māori colleagues. Consequently I sought permission to use Ānaru as a domain name to identify more strongly as pākeha/tangata Tiriti and support te reo in a public way.
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