Career
In 1963 he co-founded the medical instruments company Telectronics Pty Limited in Sydney, and served as the company"s Chief Engineer from 1963 to 1970 and Technical Director from 1963 to 1978. At age 21 he passed the year 12 examinations by night study at the Adelaide School of Mines, while working as a senior technician at the Department of Supply Long Range Weapons Establishment in South Australia, and being appointed the same year on merit as an electrical engineer at graduate level by the Netherlands Philips company subsidiary T.C.A. Pty.Ltd.
In 1958-1959 he studied application of the new technology of the transistor at Philips establishments in the Netherlands and England. Being relocated after that to Philips" Sydney headquarters.
His involvement as a director of Telectronics ceased in about 1982 when control of the company was gained by Nucleus Limited.
He was the recipient of the Institute of Engineers, Engineers Australia, 2007 "David Dewhurst Award " "In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the profession of Biomedical Engineering". At age 77, he was the lead co-researcher of a team at Sydney"s The Children"s Hospital at Westmead developing and clinically trialling a new form of therapy for a childhood condition, funded by a A$330,000 Grant by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
He is the father of four children and has nine grandchildren (at January 2011).