In 1982, while at TRW, Dave bought his first computer, an Atari 800 with a disc drive.  Shortly thereafter, he founded Zoez Software.  Zoez's purpose was to write games and custom software for small businesses.  Although successful in software development, his customers' appeals for affordable hardware and peripherals dragged Zoez into selling computer hardware and commercial software. 

The demand was such that he left TRW and opened Zoez Software as a retail store in the old Brantford Mall.  Utilizing his background in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Zoez prospered and grew, until he lost the Company in his divorce in 1994.

For a while he sold computers and related products for a competitor in Brantford until, in 1997, he took a Microsoft Certified course in Networking with Microsoft NT Server.  The last part of the course was a week on the Internet and creating web sites. That single week inspired Dave to become a web designer. In early 1998 he founded Aquilifer to create web sites full time. 

He has been developing web sites for clients ever since.  Since 1998, the Internet has changed radically and Dave has been challenged and busy adapting to and mastering all the new technologies.  He is still keeping up.