Four years of experience as a structural engineer in London with Alan Baxter and Associates led me to the world of software development with QSE in Chipping Sodbury. The software developed was loved by Research Engineers in California who needed a new GUI to their internationally successful STAAD III structural analysis and design application, so they bought the QSE company. This led to the development of the application STAAD.Pro which has become the international leader for structural analysis and design, so much so that Bentley Systems bought Research Engineers in Nov 2005.