simPRO Group

Highly Engaged Employees

simPRO Software is part of the simPRO Group, founded in 2002 by Stephen Bradshaw and Vaughan McKillop. When simPRO Software founders Steve Bradshaw and Vaughan McKillop were building the bones of simPRO in Steves converted garage 17 years ago, they had no idea theyd begun a journey that would eventually help thousands of businesses worldwide. Their... passion for designing software to make running a trade business easier, and ultimately for helping the people using simPRO to succeed transformed simPRO from a small startup to a global business. With a long history of electrical contracting, Steve Bradshaw had learned the hard way how difficult a trade business could become as it grew. Without the right systems to test and measure, a bigger business would lose visibility and youd quickly end up working very long hours with very little return, Steve said. In 2002, he was co-owner of a small electrical contracting business in Brisbane, Australia. The company only had three or four staff, and while my partner wanted to expand the business, if the company were any bigger than that wed start to lose control, Steve said. I realised that what electrical and other trade businesses really needed was systemisation and automation. The company needed software to help the company keep visibility and manageability, and many, many other trade businesses were in the same position. Around that time, Steves cousin introduced him to Vaughan McKillop, who was studying software engineering at Griffith University. Vaughan left his job delivering pizza to work part-time for Steve, doing data entry for the electrical business in his converted garage. However, Vaughans real passion was software. My dad worked for NEC when I was growing up, so he was always bringing home office computers they didnt need any more, Vaughan said. Some of my school friends had gaming systems like the old Commodore 64, but my dad said a computer is not only for playing games on, it is for creating games and other applications on so if I wanted to play a game, ...Read More