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Manly, NSW, AU

Co-founded a pioneering STEAM education platform, revolutionizing traditional learning through a hands-on MakerSpace and a cutting-edge Education as a Service model.

Sydney, New South Wales, AU

Spearheaded the technological transformation of a multi-cloud SaaS platform within the financial services sector, including banking and fintech clients

Visionary leader behind the development of a next-generation NFT marketplace for political donations, integrating cutting-edge blockchain technologies to enable seamless, on-demand minting and transfer of Dynamic NFTs.

Sydney, New South Wales, AU

Led the technology strategy for a multi-cloud environment, managing a 20-member engineering team across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Architected and executed the vision for a Web3 platform on the Ethereum Blockchain, delivering sophisticated smart contract solutions to support high-value resale and auction events.

Baar, Zug, CH

Strategically directed the creation of a groundbreaking blockchain payments platform for a hybrid asset-backed cryptocurrency tied to physical metals.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Led the development of a comprehensive Workforce as a Service platform, integrating advanced features such as auctions, billing, payments, and real-time tracking.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Led cloud transformation initiatives in partnership with AWS, optimizing large-scale NLP indexing and content processing for major media clients.

Directed global cloud architecture and delivery for enterprise-scale products, built on a highly scalable Node.js microservices and CloudFoundry infrastructure.

Created a private photo sharing, journaling platform. Supports iOS & Web Apps with features, private family network, photo sharing, cloud storage and access to 1,000 educational and explorational activities. Server API written in Rails3 & JSON running on Heroku, AWS S3 and CloudFront.

Web 2.0 Travel / Media startup, leveraging the “long tail” of travel. Built and managed geographically dispersed development team (4) and the local production team(10 - editors, camera operators & talent). Built video production pipeline that involved shooting HD on the road with post production back @ HQ.

Birmingham, MI, US

Hired to streamline production, maximize efficiencies and build a foundation for growth. Responsible for Hardware, Storage, Applications, Pipeline and Engineering groups across multiple facilities. Developed a Bidding tool for Producers that included versioning, publishing workflow and hooks to ActiveDirectory and SalesForce.

US

Developed strategies that leveraged emergent new media techniques for international information operations. Strategies included Games(MMOG’s, Mobile, Flash, Trading Cards), Internet Social Networks, Organized Graffiti, Independent News Production, Guerrilla TV.

San Francisco, CA, US

A VFX/Production studio focused on providing high-end visual effect services for feature films, television and advertising. Built SGI/linux hybrid super clusters and high speed networks to feed 300 data hungry artists while fighting with a 1000 node render farm. We hired 50 artists in one month while also building the network, file servers, workstations.

US

Prototyped, hardened and delivered a web app reporting tool for opt-in email campaigns by Charles Schwab and Blockbuster. The reporting app mined 100's of millions of records, rolling up data points and evaluating campaign performance. Java, Oracle, XML/XSL.

Denver, CO, US

E-business advertising and marketing company, developed pioneering information technologies that allowed real-time performance monitoring and adaptive optimization. Invented ads in Email.

London, England, GB

Joint venture between the Financial Times, Dow Jones, and Dialog Corporation, called "WorldReporter", harvested business based news from over 1000 sources world wide. This mess information from different sources in different formats was processed through a bespoke search/indexing/meta tagging intelligent system based on Verity, then distributed to the.

Bachelor, Engineering

Diploma, Aviation