Tom Allen Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Control Bionics specializes in creating cutting-edge devices that revolutionize the way people with disabilities interact with technology. Our flagship product, the NeuroNode, uses Electromyography (‘EMG’) and accelerometer data to detect a user's intent and translate it into actions on a computer or tablet. We also develop a semi-autonomous driving.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Triple Point Games is the holding company for my game development IP portfolio. For licensing opportunities, please visit my website at triplepointgames.com

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I'm an experienced CTO and engineering leader who can bridge the gap between business management and product development. My specialty is working with engineering teams on mechatronic products - anything that combines software, electronics, and hardware. Working as a consultant I assist clients with their technology strategy, engineering skills mix, system.

Melbourne, Australia

We're a small team developing fully-automated Escape Rooms, and we were the first in the world to bring this to market. (Seriously, we did this in 2016. I know people always claim dubious world-firsts, but this one actually checks out...) We combine robotics, product development, and software skills with story telling, gameplay, and experience design. Our.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

SVP Melbourne is a social venture investment group, formed around a core of passionate people who want to make lasting social change in the communities we care about. We volunteer our time and our talents, and donate our pooled funds to not for profits working with disadvantaged and marginalised youth.I help SVP’s partner organisations with strategic.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I sat on the board of Kids Like Us, a social enterprise aiming to broaden the horizons for 'twice-exceptional' kids - children who are gifted in one or more areas such as sport, academics, or the creative arts, and yet also have a cognitive or physical disability. These children have real struggles progressing through conventional schooling, and KLU helps.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A short contract to establish the development processes for a team of software, electronics, mechanical, and machine-learning engineers developing a suite of optical radars for search and rescue, object detection, classification, and tracking applications. I will watch their progress with a keen eye - they're building some seriously impressive tech!

Melbourne, Australia

Cooltrax is a leading supplier of IoT solutions to manage the cold chain. This involves temperature monitoring and control of refrigerated containers, trucks, and the products within them, as well as tracking of goods as they move from suppliers to retailers.I ran the various Engineering teams from the Melbourne office and established Cooltrax's product.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Major wins in my first 12 months include: reducing cloud and IT costs by more than my annual salary in the first two months, doubling the engineering team size with diverse and complementary hires, introducing a public API that led to multiple new partnerships, zero customer churn and best ever sales figures from all our operating geographies, and a.

Melbourne, Australia

I was the point of contact providing Product Architecture guidance and governance to the $1.4bn Enterprise Mobility portfolio of Telstra Enterprise. My team was at the core of the "Design Dojo" which led the charge in turning Telstra from telco to tech-co. I then worked directly within the enterprise digitisation programme to establish strategy and.

Melbourne, Australia

Brought on to manage a four year old product in the intellectual property protection space, I rewrote the system for better scalability using Python, Celery, Redis, AWS EC2 & S3, Vagrant, Ansible, and more. It now handles millions of data points per day (up from tens of thousands), has a far better sales proposition, and has higher accuracy than any of the.

Melbourne, Australia

I provided mentoring, regular one-on-ones, and input into performance reviews for a quarter of PI's 20+ software engineers.

Melbourne, Australia

I was promoted out of the Engineering stream directly into PI's consulting discipline. That meant more projects, more responsibility, and more fun! In the new role I took a pro-active approach to generating leads and new business for our consulting arm, developing and promoting the culture of innovation within Planet Innovation, and providing technical.

Melbourne, Australia

Roles included writing the software and firmware that enabled our hardware to shine, thinking up new inventions for in-house product development, and liaising with clients in a consulting capacity.

Sydney, Australia

At Bigcommerce I rapidly grew my programming and architecture skills, while using my experience in designing large scale systems to help transition the company to a service oriented architecture. My primary responsibility was to design and implement an authentication and authorization system to secure communications between internal and external services..

Sydney, Australia

Triple Point Robotics was a lean startup that aimed to bring useful and innovative robots and robotics technology to the world. I led the small team in exploring the market for a stablized projector/camera combination ideal for multi-viewer augmented reality, portable tele-conferencing and video chat, and novel occlusion based interfaces.After performing.

At the Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation (RTCMA) within the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), I designed control, planning, and automation software to enable robots to optimise the open pit mining process. This involved decomposing tasks into chunks that could be assigned to individual vehicles and people, then scheduled appropriately while.

Sydney, Australia

Undertook a thesis to solve the Time-Optimal Planning and Execution (TOPE) problem. (See publications below.)

Sydney, Australia

Developed a working implementation of parallel computation of path planning from coarse large-scale routes to detailed small-scale manoeuvres, and wrote this up as a thesis for which I was awarded 1st Class Honours.

Sydney, Australia

Designed a suite of cross-platform multi-threaded GUI utilities for the control and monitoring of two autonomous ground vehicles. These GUIs were still in use in 2012, and several generic sensor data visualisation tools have been used in over ten different projects.

Contract research secondment from ACFR. Led research into novel hierarchical planning architectures for unmanned ground vehicles. Demonstrated and delivered working proof-of-concept system within two months.

Sydney, Australia

Computer and network support, software training, receptionist duties, invoicing and inventory management. I also carted a metric shitload of liquid nitrogen across the university grounds.

Ph.D., Robotics

How do you solve problems quickly, without also spending too long thinking about how to do it? What if the problem changes while you're.

B.E./B.Sc., Mechatronic Engineering, Physics

Graduated with 1st Class Honours