Bruce has forty years in the fire-protection industry and has progressed through a number of roles: Draftsman, Project Leader, Estimator, Operations Manager, Standards Writer, Technical Officer (with the Insurance Council of Australia, testing and inspecting essential services and preparing post-fire reports for forensic purposes), Associate and Fire- Protection-Section Head in a leading Australian consulting-engineering practice, Site Engineer for a number of defence projects, Design Manager and Chief Engineer (for Fire and Communications Systems in a number of road and rail tunnels in Australia), Technical Manager Infrastructure Projects for a leading fire-systems contractor, and Part-Time Teacher of Fire Systems Design with TAFE NSW.