Peter initially became involved with Avalon after he realized that his own product (Telanon) showed remarkable similarities to Avalon. He is the main architect and developer for the Phoenix application server, and the LogKit logging toolkit. He is also involved with the Ant project.

Outside the scope of the ASF, Peter is actively building a distributed virtual environment (DVE). This DVE is based on Phoenix and is dervied from work in military simulations, interactive entertainment industry (ie 3D games), and the academic community. He has also completed studies in areas such as linguistics, logic, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, mythology/history and computer science.