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Peyton was born in in 1979 and grew up in Newport, Arkansas. If Newport were to be known it would be known as the first stop for Sam Walton on his adventure of creating Wal-Mart. That is, if it were to be known.
After High School and a year-long bout playing baseball at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, he studied Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. During the college years, he interned at Garver Engineers and gained valuable experience in the professional world, designing water systems and highways with an occasional trek through the deep woods or down the centerline of a busy highway for land surveying projects.
After graduation in 2002 and through BUNAC Peyton secured a 6 month working visa to the United Kingdom, packed a bag, bought a flight to London and moved to Oxford, England on a journey that gave him a different set of eyes to see the world with. When the opportunities came he set off on expeditions to other frontiers in continental Europe.
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His good friend, Gonzalo, who he met in Oxford, made it possible for Peyton to visit his home in Arequipa, Peru for several months in 2004 to live with his family. This was yet another adventure that changed his life and later helped lead him to make a move and study in Spain. In Peru he studied Spanish at SEPA del Peru and explored the fascinating country visiting numerous ancient Incan ruins, such as Machu Picchu, the jungle, beaches, deserts and volcanoes for several months.
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From this point he was becoming more curious of the viewpoint he would gain by knowing more cultures, more ideals and more regions of the world. From the US he saw the world with a certain pair of lenses, in Europe his ideas of the way the world ran and should be run changed and from South America even that point of view was slightly skewed.
When deciding how and where to use his engineering degree, Peyton was keen on using it in an international environment while continuing to expand his knowledge of both engineering and the world in general. The job market and circumstances in New Zealand were just right for being hired to work as a project manager of land development for Clifton Coney Group, an Australian based management firm specializing in managing projects from tender to design to construction and turnover to the client.
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After a year of working in Auckland and hiking, kayaking, camping, bungee jumping and a host of other weekend activities, Peyton made his way to the US but with a slight detour, through Australia and Southeast Asia. Starting in Australia, he dove the Great Barrier Reef, camped on the beaches under the Southern Cross and made his way up and down the west coast before visiting Southeast Asia, starting in Singapore and going through Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. An experience at Ko Pagnan island in Thailand gave him the idea of self supporting, energy efficient buildings that ran on their own sources of energy. One piece of the equation that led to his current career path as well as the creation of this blog.
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Taking the long way around the world from Southeast Asia, Peyton finally settled in New York in order to search, apply for and accept admission to an International MBA program in Madrid, Spain and MIT’s international Master in Logistics Engineering and Supply Chain Management. In October 2006 Peyton moved across the pond once again to begin his experience on the Iberian Peninsula. This time the goal was exploration of how companies run and what the successful ones have done to help them rise to the top. He spent almost a year in Madrid studying the International MBA and then based in Zaragoza, Spain for the Masters of Logistics Engineering and Supply Chain Management with MIT.
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Now, after higher education, a thesis on energy efficiency and renewable energy and a load of information ready to be applied, Peyton is starting his next adventure. The parameters have changed and some circumstances as well. This stage is about using knowledge, a professional network and personal skills to bring about savings and value in businesses by finding inefficiencies in their operations and introducing new technology and offering solutions.
