Chris Oliver is a software engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the creator of their JavaFX family of products. He came to Sun through their SeeBeyond acquisition, and had earlier designed the architecture for the ICAN 5.0 suite of products (now Java Caps).
Oliver attended St Gregory's College as a teenager, but completed his schooling at Erindale College in Canberra. He played representative football for the NSW/ACT Rams.
AFL career
A ruckman, he spent a pre-season with Fremantle, prior to being recruited by St Kilda, as a rookie. He made 10 appearances for St Kilda over three seasons, never playing more than two games in a row. Instead he spent much of his time playing for Springvale in the Victorian Football League.
Post AFL
Oliver was delisted at the end of the 2003 season. He spent the next stage of his career with Sturt, followed by a stint at Frankston. He was at Corowa-Rutherglen in 2010, St Albans in 2011 and joined Numurkah in 2012.
Here the ECHO's racing reporter Chris Wright picks out the 10 horses that he thinks have the best chance of winning the world's greatest steeplechase when the tapes go up at 4pm this Saturday with his rating out of five.
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