Leonard Hoon, Phd Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I oversee the institute's research themes and commercialization efforts to ensure alignment with both commercial valuation and social impact. Leading key initiatives and governance structures, I identify, roadmap, and cultivate the career progression of leadership candidates.Achievements:- Established Research Governance processes and Research Project Management Office- Developed research commercialization roadmap template for sustainable IP generation- Led international… Show more I oversee the institute's research themes and commercialization efforts to ensure alignment with both commercial valuation and social impact. Leading key initiatives and governance structures, I identify, roadmap, and cultivate the career progression of leadership candidates.Achievements:- Established Research Governance processes and Research Project Management Office- Developed research commercialization roadmap template for sustainable IP generation- Led international projects to strengthen national sovereign resilienceKey Projects:- Advanced Manufacturing Control and Monitoring System, to create a recycling and clean energy ecosystem in collaboration with government, industry partners, and academia. (Current)- Large-scale digital phenotyping and adaptive trial platform for personalised anxiety and depression treatments in collaboration with specialists. Show less

In my senior management role, I advanced key national and international interests by leading our largest and most strategic vertical, Health Tech, and developing national AI Ethics capabilities.Achievements:- Led international MVPs for COVID, Dementia, Trauma, and Wellbeing- Established AI Ethics capability to educate our practice and reduce client liability- Led Australian national consultations for AI Ethics, AI Standards, and Cyber Security- Chief Investigator for the… Show more In my senior management role, I advanced key national and international interests by leading our largest and most strategic vertical, Health Tech, and developing national AI Ethics capabilities.Achievements:- Led international MVPs for COVID, Dementia, Trauma, and Wellbeing- Established AI Ethics capability to educate our practice and reduce client liability- Led Australian national consultations for AI Ethics, AI Standards, and Cyber Security- Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Digital Enhanced LivingKey Projects:- Remote monitoring and remote clinical intervention delivery system for COVID patients.- Medical system for nurses implementing a harm prevention framework to ingest patient history, intervene, and generate discharge summaries.- Workflow and interface redesign of decision support system for high-risk environments. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

As a strategic senior management hire, I navigated the nascent climate of AI disruption by realigning the company's people, practice, and strengths. Through transformational leadership, I refined our processes and culture to foster innovation.Achievements:- Redefined client engagement approach- Developed a framework for consistent data science capability (open-sourced)- Conceptualized IP, reduced costs, and improved efficacy- Led the development of the Deakin response to… Show more As a strategic senior management hire, I navigated the nascent climate of AI disruption by realigning the company's people, practice, and strengths. Through transformational leadership, I refined our processes and culture to foster innovation.Achievements:- Redefined client engagement approach- Developed a framework for consistent data science capability (open-sourced)- Conceptualized IP, reduced costs, and improved efficacy- Led the development of the Deakin response to Data61 Australian AI Ethics Framework consultation, as well as to Standards Australia AI Standards consultationKey Projects (as Project Lead):- National online resource for teachers to help create inclusive educational environments for children and young people with developmental challenges and difficulties.- Online resource to help create inclusive educational environments for children and young people with developmental challenges and difficulties.- Natural language processing of call transcripts to be parsed for business compliance and audit.- Operational framework and toolkit to systematically design, develop, and deploy non-deterministic pipelines into production systems. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

I ran the postgraduate capstone program, building multidisciplinary teams of students and assigning them live client projects as a graduation hurdle. I leveraged my commercial experience to redesign the program to teach contemporary software delivery practices and agile project management methodologies.

Sydney, Australia

I expanded the company's data-driven culture, enabling more informed decision-making and the addition of new core businesses.Achievements:- Established an innovative and continuously improving team culture- Introduced automation across data operations, accelerating processes by 300% on average- Implemented dynamic pricing for products, increasing gross revenue by 15%

Melbourne, Australia

I developed soft skills and technical expertise to stay congruent with stakeholders and translate client needs into executable roadmaps for cross-functional teams.Achievements:- Applied PhD NLP research for app portfolio evaluation in M&A due diligence- Led applied research efforts and developed processes to align novel solutions with stakeholder value propositions

Melbourne, Australia

I taught programming, project management, and usability subjects while training and supervising usability tests for over 100 projects and deliverables.

Melbourne, Australia

As an app developer, I performed content updates for existing clients and served as an analyst for new clients, guiding the conceptualisation, functional specification, and prototyping of their ideas.

Melbourne, Australia

During my tenure, I developed and published two iOS apps: "The Photo is now Diamonds," capitalizing on the popularity of the Old Spice commercials, and collaborated with Swinburne to create the "Swinburne ATAR Calculator" (v1.0) app, which helps high schoolers explore higher education courses they are eligible for.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science & Software Engineering

Master Of Information Technology (Mit)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Information Technology

Diploma In Information Technology, E-Commerce Technology

Activities and Societies: Temasek Polytechnic Squash Team Awarded Vice Captaincy of the Temasek Polytechnic Squash Team. Received 3rd.