 David
started his career as a Software Developer in 1974. He discovered
homeopathy in the late 1970's. In the early 1980's he was
working freelance in the City of London for many leading UK
banks and Insurance Brokers. He attended a seminar run by
the Hahnemann Society and listened to a presentation by Dr
Michael Jenkins of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
During this presentation Dr Jenkins mentioned how homeopaths
needed to reference Kent's Repertory and how this was very
difficult for them in an NHS hospital with restricted time
for each patient. David made contact with Dr Jenkins and they
agreed to meet.
The result of this meeting was the commissioning, by the
Hospital, of David to create the first homeopathic repertory
system for PC's which was subsequently named Cara (Computer
Assisted Repertory Analysis). David learned his homeopathy
at the Research Department of the hospital, assiduous reading
and attendance at teaching lectures given by Faculty of Homeopathy
staff. David and his team would work full days at their regular
jobs and each night manually typed in rubrics and remedies
from Kent into Cara. Many nurses and doctors offered their
time for this work also.
Cara continued to develop and grow during the 1980's as more
and more lay homeopaths became trained at the new colleges
that had started to spring up around the country. However
David remained in demand as a computer consultant and homeopathy
stayed an interest and a passion for him.
During this time David travelled extensively and learned
form almost all of the world's leading homeopathic teachers.
He remembers well animated discussions about computer software
with a young Rajan Sankaran, his first contact with Jeremy
Sherr and enlightening seminars with Robin Murphy.
David spent a short period of time as Computer Systems Development
Manager at British Midland Airways and was then appointed
to the board of Airline Management Systems - who developed
and marketed advanced airline software around the world. In
1990 David accepted a position at Bain Hogg Insurance, later
known as Aon Insurance following a takeover. Throughout all
this time David would be working nights and weekends developing
Cara. He also decided to obtain a formal qualification with
the British Institute of Homeopathy and began to practice.
Then in 1995 David was told he would have to relocate back
to London as part of his full time employment. After serious
thought David decided to pursue homeopathy, the passion of
his life, full time. At that time he stopped employment and
dedicated himself to homeopathy. The result 3 years later
was the release of Cara Professional and in 2003 of the new
ISIS software system.
He remains enthusiastically dedicated to this work. He is
driven by the desire to provide regular homeopaths with tools
to help them do their work more easily. This remains the focus
of his software to this day.
David was the writer of Cara and Isis and is CEO of the company.
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