Carl (Technomage of The Blue Wizard) has had over twenty-five years experience in the computer and IT industry, and has worked for some of Australia's leading IT consultancies and companies. He began his computer career as a computer hardware technician, but quickly graduated into software programming, database work and high-end IT consultancy.

In his time Carl has worked as Technical Manager for the large Australian data conversion and anti-virus company Doctor Disk, for the Website Authoring and Electronic Publishing group Documenta, and more recently, as lead Software Engineer and Forensic Analyst at the Sydney-based professional Data Recovery Experts Forensic Data Services.