He graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in Architecture. Early in his career he was a project architect for a variety of projects including Residential, Commercial and Medical Facilities; he was also a project manager for Architectural CAD Systems. Since 1985 he has been a Residential and Commercial Architect in southern California. Joe uses Layout and Plan Templates combined with Annotation Sets, Layer Sets, Text Styles and Ruby Macros to help in automating his construction documents process. He has been using Chief Architect since version 9.5.