After working as an architect in London and Oxfordshire, he joined Architects Design Partnership in 1991, moving to an ever-expanding CAD/IT role in 1996. Over the following 12 years he built their ICT system up from scratch, gaining the necessary skills as required, becoming ADP's IT Director. During this period their isolated computer networks were developed into an integrated ICT system that enabled dynamic sharing of information and resources across the practice's UK wide locations.