His first job in the electronics field was as a radio repair service in a major London department store.
[1] In May 1940, he was asked to join a team developing aircraft interception (AI) radar systems at St Athen.
Here he joined a team including two other engineers who would also later move to Canada, Bennett Lewis of Cambridge, and J. Rennie Whitehead from Manchester.
Due to ongoing political issues and delays in the AI radar program, shortly after arriving the group was reorganized and they were sent to Worth Matravers where they worked under Freddie C.
On returning to Canada, Solandt invited Moody to head a new circuitry design department within the Defence Research Telecommunication Establishment in Ottawa.
[4] In 1961, Porter was offered the position to start a new industrial engineering department at the University of Toronto.
[6] Porter stepped down from the Director position in 1975, and retired early in 1977, selling his Toronto home and cottage in Picton, Ontario, moving west to Victoria, BC.