Conrad started work in scientific programming for universities where his forte was FORTRAN-90 and parallel FORTRAN for Cray-YMP8 super computers. After wanting a change he became a free-lance body piercer for 3 years. During this time he taught himself a whole load of web technologies, and when the piercing bubble burst, got himself employed by Gameplay producing web widgets for their shop.
After several other java/web jobs he ended up working for gamer.tv where he programmed a couple multi-player online games in flash – DinkyBomb V2 and Oddballs Bowling. They were both in AS 1 and it hurt his Java sensibilities to use such a primitive language. However he enjoyed what could be made with it.
Conrad then moved on to the gambling industry at NT Media (later bought by Orbis) where he honed my AS2 skills. AS3 came out whilst he was there and he pined for its much better performance and structure. Unfortunately to this day Orbis still only use AS2 and so he decided to move somewhere that thrives on AS3, Gamesys.