Graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey with a Masters in Civil Engineering majoring in earthquake engineering. He has since gone on to build the Prota Group of companies comprising of Prota Engineering, Turkey’s largest civil engineering consultancy, Prota Software, a leading international structural software development house and Prota Computer Turkey’s largest supplier and accredited training centre for Autodesk and other leading technical software applications.Having over 35 years experience as a practicing professional engineer, Joseph has been involved indesigning some of the largest public and private structural engineering projects around the worldincluding Istanbul’s new Mass Transit railway system and the new International Airport in Istanbul,The world’s Largest. Joseph is passionate about structural and seismic engineering and has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences, seminars and assemblies and published numerous research papersand notices especially in the fields of seismic design, assessment and retrofit.In 1985 Joseph conceptualised and created the structural engineering software ProbinaOrion(internationally known as Orion) which he has continued to develop to become one of the leadingsystems for integrated reinforced concrete building design and detailing widely used by designprofessionals worldwide.In 2011 he began creating ProtaStructure Suite, the next generation multi-material building designand detailing system based on state-of-the-art technology.