1968 - 77 Kidsgrove/Euston/West Gorton Head of Software Engineering
After leading the team that developed Cades at Kidsgrove, I spent a little time introducing 2900 Series to universities. In 1977, I moved to Ottawa as director of advanced development for Bell-Northern Research (Nortel research labs). In 1981 I started a computer graphics workstation company and took it public in 1983.....the heady days! In 86 I moved to Scotland and started the Strathclyde Institute, a CIM centre of excellence, in partnership with Bull, HP and the University.  In 93 I joined the Scottish Development Agency as senior director to help improve the Scottish economy.  In 2000, I moved to Norwich to do the same job as CEO for Norfolk and Suffolk.  My last position was as COO for the Industrial Society/Work Foundation in London, doing a turnaround job on one of the UK's oldest and most venerable training and consultancy organisations.  That successfully completed, we retired to British Columbia and now have a nice beach house on the ocean, just north of the really wealthy computer folk in Seattle!

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