Dave worked at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino, California as a Software Development Engineer, Project Manager and Information Design Engineer. In 1993, he established one of the first internal Web sites there and served as Webmaster for information dealing with a segment of the company's systems software products. He helped several other organizations establish Web servers and was a member of an internal working group on applying Web technology to improve technical communication.

Dave was featured in the premiere issue of WEBMASTER magazine.

In addition, he is on the Adjunct Faculty at National University in San Jose and has taught over eighty classes in the undergraduate and graduate computer science programs. The courses include C Programming, Compiler Design, Operating Systems, Unix for Software Development and Expert Systems. Dave has taught several of the courses in National University's M.S. in Electronic Business program including Web Application Development and Web Graphics.

Dave has an M.S. in Computer Science and twenty years of industry experience. He founded The Web Academy in February 1995 and has trained over two thousand Web developers and content creators from around the world. He presented a talk at Internet World in Chicago. The subject was "Developing Web Skills and Teams for Creating Your Intranet".

Dave was a judge in the Web Marketing Association's WebAwards Web design competition. He assisted in the validation of the XML certification exam at BrainBench and presented a talk on XSLT Transformations at the Silicon Valley Webguild.

Currently, Dave is a contractor at Cisco Systems in San Jose working on interface development (DHTML, XML, XSL, Ajax, etc.) for the cisco.com site.