He is best known for his success in the early "dot com years" of the Internet, as the creator of Sausage Software and its flagship product, the HotDog Web Editor.
By 1992 he had completed a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (BCA), from Victoria University of Wellington Outtrim founded Sausage Software in 1995.
At that stage of the Internet's development, graphics had only just come to the World Wide Web, with Marc Andreessen's breakthrough NCSA Mosaic, which later became Netscape.
This enabled the business model of Sausage Software, which was to give away something of value for free, but time limit its use to 30 days.
This "Free/Pro" distribution model was known as Shareware, and was employed by many small software vendors on the Internet and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).
[9] Sausage.com was a fully automated business, open 24/7 in every country in the world and with no staff or inventory required to make a sale.
The customers would get the program for free, use it for 30 days, then if they wanted to keep using it, provide their credit card details to a secure web server, and receive an email with a 16-digit licensing code.
[16] Since then he has been involved in a number of start-up companies, most notably as: In 2014, Majitek changed its name to Urbanise.com and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX code: UBN).