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New South Wales, Australia

Mar-tech AI SaaS. Helping marketers and designers improve engagement and conversion, using generative AI and computer vision. Development of innovative creative technology apps on various platforms (Canva, WordPress, Wix) including:* Ai Motion - tell a story with any image using AI-generated cut, pan, zoom and cross-fade effects* Ai Captions - add creative / fun / engaging AI-generated animated captions to your imagery* Ai Magnify - enhance images with interactive magnifier lens, 16x AI-upscaling and fullscreen mode* Ai Decorations - thousands of animated decorations for any occasion, suggested by AI

Expert advice, rapid prototyping, software development and training for enterprises to kickoff and accelerate AI innovation. We will help you build your AI agents and generative AI apps, fine-tuned and augmented with your custom domain knowledge and proprietary data, and with privacy, data protection, security, and safety guardrails.Talk to us (and our agents) at https://rag.teamDemystifying OpenAI, ChatGPT APIs, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock, multi-modal generative AI, computer vision, AI agents, prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling / integration with proprietary systems, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and supervised / reinforcement fine-tuning.

Health-tech. Advisory and commercialisation of research into VR for treatment of insomnia.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Video-tech SaaS. Marketers use Playable to add video content to their email marketing campaigns - video that plays automatically in the inbox - to tell a story and increase engagement / conversion.I built the product and team and led the business from zero revenue to six consecutive quarters of profitability and annual revenue of $2m.During that time, we added billions of videos into emails for HBO, Warner Bros., Univision, EPIX, Foxtel, Volvo, ASICS, Theory, Charlotte Tilbury, Marco Polo and 000's more, working with Mailchimp, Salesforce, SendGrid, Emarsys, Iterable, Klaviyo, Braze and 50 more mar-tech and video-tech partners.

San Francisco, Us

Industry association for Partnership leaders. The association’s mission is to elevate the role of partnership leaders and provides a vibrant online community, virtual events, curated professional networking opportunities, and educational resources to drive success for its members.Helped me establish Playable's partner network with Mailchimp, Salesforce, SendGrid, Emarsys, Iterable, Klaviyo, Braze and 50 more mar-tech and video-tech partners.

Walsh Bay, Nsw, Au

Video-centric mobile network provider, disrupting media and telecoms.

Incoming Media uses machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to learn and predict the content that each viewer loves to watch, and when and where and in which mobile context.Prediction is so accurate that we predictively push videos to mobile devices before they are watched. Viewers are notified of great content at the perfect moment, and can enjoy guaranteed flawless playback, even when offline.Investors include Warner Bros., Intel Capital, One Ventures, Warner Music, Citrix Startup Accelerator, and NICTA - Australia’s ICT Research Centre of Excellence and birthplace of software in 2bn mobile devices.Acquired by OVO Mobile.

Zurich, Ch

• Led the Engineering team of Xumii from stealth startup mode through market launch to acquisition and beyond, building a mobile social messaging platform for mobile carriers and handset manufacturers.• Worked with mobile carriers to embed the Xumii platform inside their network, enabling a range of mobile social messaging products and services, available to subscribers via iOS, Android, J2ME and mobile web apps.• Worked with handset manufacturers to embed Xumii software inside their software stack, to create phones with integrated social messaging, social browser and content discovery and sharing.• Xumii was acquired in 2009 by Myriad Group (SIX:MYRN), Europe's largest mobile software company and provider of software to more than 2 billion mobile phones.• During the 12 months following acquisition, we won contracts valued at USD 100 million, to deliver mobile social messaging into 12 countries.

New York City, New York, Us

• Built and led an Innovation Lab for Lonely Planet, with a focus on mobile, social, geo, and video.• Mobile - SMS services and travel content apps.• Geo - Created the LPmaps platform and SDK, enabling the diverse portfolio of Lonely Planet websites to present their content through a consistent interactive map interface, allowing users to explore and navigate between multiple content layers including travel commentary, hotel reviews, photos, and videos. LPmaps included an open developer API which rapidly scaled to handle 20m monthly transactions.• Video / Social - Managed the reboot of Lonely Planet TV into a UGC travel video website, blended with premium video content produced by Lonely Planet. LPTV was the first UGC video site to feature content discovery and navigation via an interactive map (using LPmaps).

• Led Engineering, Product Development, Infrastructure and Operations teams to design, build, launch and operate hundreds of mobile products and mar-tech services combining SMS, MMS, IVR, WAP, J2ME apps and IVVR video, for Australia’s leading media and entertainment companies (e.g. Channel 7, Channel 9 & Network 10, nineMSN, Fairfax, and News Corp), brands (e.g. Coca Cola), and mobile operators (Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and Hutchison/3).• Presided over Australia's busiest ever mobile "second screen" events including Big Brother and Australian Idol voting.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

• Product development and engineering of an online psychometric assessment SaaS platform that delivers 'better people decisions' through a unique blend of artificial intelligence expert systems and psychologist-written assessment reports.• Enabled international expansion to 20 countries. Migrated $500,000 MRR from offline to online within 3 months of launch.

• Built and led the UK's first online 60-minute shopping service in London.• Achieved the UK's fastest ever online shopping delivery @ 17 minutes from order to delivery, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio.• 'Best Customer Service' finalist at European E-Commerce Awards 2000.

London, Gb

• Created 'dot corp' incubation unit for News International (News Corp in the UK).• Directed the development and launch of various online products including online auctions, shopping, jobs and property marketplaces, an ISP, and news and entertainment sites representing brands such as The Times and The Sun that together reach over 20 million users.• Many exciting dotcom moments, including the UK's highest profile live web chat with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Learnt the internet trade. Engineering, product development & strategy for many awesome clients, including:• Text Media Group (Sydney, 1999) - Established the online division of Australia’s largest contract publisher. Projects included content syndication to food, property, financial services and directory sites.• Ezishop (Sydney, 1998) - Directed this multi-channel television / catalogue / mobile / internet retailer from startup into its first television media contract. Managed the launch of an e-commerce website, including an innovative TV / web / phone auction application.• Dragoman Travel (London, 1997) – Created world-first Group Travel Blog, documenting an adventure through the archaeological sites of Central America.• Benetton (London, 1995) – Built one of the first e-commerce websites, selling Benetton Formula 1 merchandise. Hosted the loudest sound sample on the internet - an F1 engine over-rev.

Created ‘MegaFruit’, a slot machine game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, squeezed into 16,384 bytes of Z80 machine code. The game enjoyed commercial success from a distribution deal with Thor Computer Games. Nowadays MegaFruit can be played on an emulator on my phone, and the game has recently been licensed for inclusion on retro gaming consoles.

M.Sc., Master Of Vision, Visualisation & Virtual Environments

Dip. App. Psych., Diploma In Applied Psychology

B.Sc., Psychology