Completed apprenticeship at Australian Shipbuilding industries then spent 5 years in Kalgoorlie,kambalda, working on heavy Earth moving machinery both above and underground.Then worked 5 years for Transfield in there Kwinana workshop fabricating, car dumpers,stackers,reclaimers,conveyers and pressure vessels. And Ausclad group companies fabricating. Crushers,conveyers, pressure vessels and tanks.