Creative, determined, persistent, detail-oriented, yet blue-sky minded, I am a disciplined and methodical researcher, with over 20 years' experience working with diverse groups of people in teaching, training, and project-based roles. I have proven success in competing for external funding, garnering almost $500K in cash, stipendiary and in-kind support for collections-based research and training. I am a strong innovator, with my work sitting at the intersection between traditional and modern approaches to biodiversity discovery. Through the development of a new web portal to aggregate genomic and phenotypic data for Australian species, ARGA, I am engaged with emerging digital infrastructure creation and I am exploring machine-learning tailored for research. Highly experienced in the cultural institutions and tertiary sectors, I am co-operative, approachable and flexible, and seek to deliver tangible outcomes that bring positive changes.