I started practice in Atlanta after a brief stint with the Southern Solar Energy Center. I worked for a small practice creating small to medium size projects on paper and pin bars. We bought our first CAD system in 1985 for the sole purpose of qualifying to compete for some library work. The best ROI we could achieve for this investment was to turn it off and lock it in the closet.
I went to Europe and semi-accidentally stayed 6 years, falling into the 3D modeling and CAD software business. I remained in the software business as president of Graphisoft US for an additional 7 years in the US before returning to a conventional practice in a less conventional place using less conventional methods in 1999.
Today, our 4 person firm focuses on residential projects, with some exceptions, using tools that I was fortunate to play some role in forming as well as new tools that we have the opportunity and the need to learn regularly.