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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Grew company to multi-million valuation from founding.• Oversaw research & development of Powerband - a new class of wearable devices for swimming. • Instrumental in all aspects of the product & company including commercialisation, intellectual property, fundraising, strategic partnerships, and product trials. • Developed the firmware, electronics, custom PCBs, algorithm stack, data analysis scripts, machine learning models, physical test rigs, and patent. • Patent PCT: “Systems and methods for formulating a performance metric of a motion of a user”

Sydney, Australia

Consulting and advising on electronics, algorithms and robotics for D+I’s diverse range of clients.

Sydney, Australia

• Member of the engineering team overseeing development of a sensor motion suit designed to replicate coach/student learning for a variety of motion and sporting activities.• Validation testing by analysis and comparison of consumer-grade accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers for use on sensor boards followed by study of user-friendly and factory-optimised robust calibration techniques.• Created software & hardware production testing framework for internal manufacturing thereby significantly reducing production faults. Software tests written in C++ with Qt GUI interface.• Debugged & improved existing firmware & communications stack (STM32, RS485).• Product roadmap, launch planning and technical due diligence for ecosystem involving motion suit, mobile app and cloud infrastructure.

Reno, Nevada Area

• Project manager and lead engineer of a multirotor drone safety program for Flirtey, an arial delivery startup based in Sydney, Australia & Reno, NV (Y Combinator Summer ’15). • Parachute Deployment System (PDS) developed to minimise liability risk and damage upon impact and improve compliance with civil aviation authorities. It’s a modular product capable of detecting loss of flight and deploying parachute. Developed advanced algorithms to detect loss of flight through a 9-DOF IMU. Designed custom hardware including circuits, PCBs and plastic enclosure.• First FAA-approved drone delivery July 2015 in Wise County, Virginia.• US2017/0158338 Patent: “Parachute control system for an unmanned aerial vehicle”.

Sydney, Australia

• Project and product management of 12 students building complete, 2U sub-$1000 CubeSat designed for the QB50 mission.• Oversaw design structure, ADCS, microcontroller, payload, communications and power subsystems.• Design of 4 custom PCBs based on the PC/104 standard.• Payload: Space selfie service “Spacestagram” and Langmuir Probe • Test launched at ESRA IREC in July 2015 with Missouri S&T's 2-stage rocket.

Sydney

• Covered techniques for modelling mechanical systems and understanding their response to control inputs and disturbances using tools such as Root Locus and Bode plots, and;• Representation of systems in a feedback control system as well as techniques for determining desired system performance when the system is under control.• Ran a weekly laboratory session covering system identification, control feedback and frequency analysis.

Sydney, Australia

• Project management consulting focused on project governance, monitoring, reporting and controls based on industry standards.• Developing of risk management controls and conducting Internal Audits on a variety of well established firms.• Direct dealings with construction clients, advising from project inception.