Craig Scheckle is a retired Professional Engineer who graduated from Wits University in 1981, with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Also having attained the Government Certificate of Competency in Electrical Engineering, he spent 24 years of his career in various manufacturing industries. For the last 11 years of his career he was a lecturer in the Mechatronics Department at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He retired at the end of 2016.