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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.