Born in Australia, he attended the Australian Ballet School and danced with companies in Australia and Germany. In 1976 he moved to London, where he trained at the Institute of Choreology. After graduating in 1978 he worked as a dance notator with Scottish Ballet and SWRB. In 1987 he was invited to join The Royal Ballet as Principal Notator. He has worked with many choreographers, including Balanchine, MacMillan, Ashton, Peter Darrell and Bintley, reproducing ballets for many companies abroad including the Mariinsky Theatre, Paris Opera Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, ABT, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Bavarian State Opera Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, National Ballet of Hungary and La Scala Ballet, Milan. He left The Royal Ballet in 2013 to pursue a freelance career. In 2008 he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Choreology.