Paul’s hightech lessons

ATEACHER who became frustrated by the bureaucracy and paperwork quit the profession to set up his own technology business.

Paul Levy, 47, first trained as engineer after following in the footsteps of his father and ended up working at Airbus.

But he left the industry to become a teacher working in a number of secondary schools across North Wales.

While he loved parts of the job he left full time teaching in 2000 to set up the Livetech digital creative agency.

Now in its 15th year the company employs eight people and has just secured new premises that could see them add another 10 workers.

Talking to Business Post, Paul said: “I always felt I had an inventive mind but at school I wasn’t sure what I really wanted to do.

“I was advised if I did engineering it would train my mind, so that’s what I did.

“I was following in my father’s footsteps because he was in the engineering field.

“He was a toolmaker and I was naturally led towards engineering.

“I went to university in Salford and I was sponsored by an aerospace company, Dowty Aerospace, in Gloucestershire.

“It was a major achievement at the time because going to university then was quite a big deal then - noone from my family had ever gone to university.”

Upon graduation he worked as a Stress and Performance Engineer on the landing gear of several variants of the European Airbus, the A321, A330 and the A340 aircraft.

After working for two engineering companies he decided to train as a