Trained as a carpenter working on high end private properties in Weybridge Surrey and surrounding area during the seventies, eventually went self employed in 1978 and set up my own company in 1983. Continued trading until the recession of the early nineties, started working for B & M Babbage in 1996 initially as a sub contractor. Joined the company full time in 1997 as a site agent, my first contract a £300,000 refurb in Cheltenham.Contracts manager in 2002 and senior contracts manager in 2007, overseeing in excess of 150 property reinstatements after the June and July floods of that year.