David qualified as a Chemical engineer at the University of Aston and began his career as a process engineer. His career has included:

• Design work on petrochemical plants in the UK and North Sea oil and gas
• Work in Saudi Arabia, with Aramco, as a Loss Prevention Engineer, specialising in plant safety
• Estimating for major capex projects in the Australian petrochemical industry
• Cost and time management on petrochemical projects, from board approval through to commissioning
• Development of IT systems for project control, integrating with ledger systems
• Implementation of LAN and desktop infrastructure
• Part of a corporate team implementing a corporate SOE and migration of systems to SAP, to ensure Y2K compliance
• Project Management at Hewlett Packard, IBM and BHP, predominantly in IT infrastructure. Projects included:
  • SOE upgrades,
  • Fibre optic campus installation.
  • Firewall and Avamar backup upgrades.
  • Citrix management and upgrades.
  • Corporate SAP upgrade and consolidation for BHP.
  • SWIFT server infrastructure implementation.

His career has been project oriented with significant experience in project time and cost control and project management.