- 1964 – 1975 Consulting Engineers and Contractors and Higher Education
- Blyth & Blyth, Crudens, Wimpey and Heriot Watt University
- 1975 – 2011 Forestry Commission
- Head of Design for buildings and bridges
- 2011 – Present – RURAL BRIDGES
- Past President of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) – 2000-2002
- Founder member and past Chairman of Forestry Engineering Group UK – 1988
- Committee member for 27 years
- Chairman of Innovative Timber Engineering Structures in the Countryside (InTeC)
- Department of Trade and Industry International Technology Mission leader – Norway/Sweden
- Represented the Royal Academy of Engineering at a Global Convocation – Finland
- Principal organiser First International Forestry Engineering Conference – Edinburgh 1999
- Co- sponsored the Second International Conference – Sweden 2003
- Keynote Speaker on Green Energy at Third International Conference – Quebec 2007
- Organiser of more than 20 major conferences in the UK
- Project Manager, Designer and Researcher
- Fellow of all three of my Professional Institutions
- Chartered in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering
- Applied and Academic researcher
- PhD Timber Engineering – Edinburgh Napier University – 2006
- Published more than 50 papers and contributor to many publications.
- Winner of 22 major awards.
- Industry, Academia and Professional Institutions including a Saltire Award in 2014.
- Designed, prepared contract documents, tendered, supervised and certified the construction of many hundreds of rural structures.
- Specialisms include bridges, walkways, viewing platforms, mountain bike structures, wind farm infrastructure.
- Assessed load capacity of hundreds of rural bridges.
- Established a new approach to legally binding Principal Inspections for structures in the countryside.
- Professional agenda – developing rural engineering infrastructure solutions to open up the countryside.
- Personal aim – to pass on my experience to young Engineers through courses and guest lectures.
- Chosen to give a prayer in Westminster Abbey to 2000 people about Sustainable Engineering as part of the ‘Year of the Engineer’ celebrations.
