Like most people within the lighting industry I fell into street lighting working as a technician for Bristol City Council in the late 1980s. Previously I had been an electrician for Drake and Scull (now part of the Simon Group) and also for Bristol's DLO. I then joined Philips in 1999, a consultancy in 2006 and finally Selc in 2010. When I became part of the lighting industry I was actively encouraged by my manager Dennis Wilson (regional secretary at the time) to both attend the then-regional ILE technical meetings as well as the Exterior Lighting Diploma courses. Attending technical meetings was always encouraged by my employer, something which I believe some of today's local authority engineers lack because their employers fail to see the relevance and importance of CPD, and learning from our peers in an informative and open forum.
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