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Wellington, New Zealand

Building great environmental science for NZ based on the most innovative technology I can get my hands on. Supercomputing, AI, quantum, space …

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

I led NZ's innovation policy function, advising the Minister of Research Science and Innovation within the NZ Government. We worked to grow a thriving, internationally connected innovation system within NZ, capable of taking NZ's frontier scientific and technical ingenuity and growing it for impact on the world stage. My team had policy responsibilities.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Provided strategic thought leadership and change management for MBIE's Energy Resources Markets branch as they pivoted to a new approach to data management and insight, a migration to cloud, and a changing, more connected role within NZ's resources and energy economy. My role was to provide the technical and business vision to drive change, including.

Perth, Australia

A core member of the team delivering the OZ Minerals Explorer Challenge. Developed cloud-based data infrastructure to clean, manage and serve terabytes of exploration data from OZ Minerals via an open portal to thousands of innovators globally for the Explorer Challenge (Australia’s biggest crowdsourcing competition).Provided technical leadership & sales.

Perth, Australia

Supported the program lead through the development of a practical syllabus covering the skills professionals need to leverage the new world of data science within their industry domains. Coordinated a team of technical experts from Curtin, CSIRO, and UWA to deliver the course, while also delivering content on data science strategy, exploratory data.

Perth, Australia

Worked to bridge the gap between research and industry by providing cutting edge innovative science that is immediately applicable to industry problems.Managed several agile and collaborative R&D projects applying data science and machine learning for major public and private sector clients. An example was the Smart Surveys project; this involved the.

Perth, Australia

Managed and delivered cross-disciplinary machine learning projects using geoscience and data science teams across CSIRO Minerals and Data61. A key engagement was with BHP Olympic Dam; I lead a team from CSIRO Minerals and Data61 to develop predictive characterisation from hyperspectral core scanning, resulting in quantitative core data at mm resolution.

Australian Resources Research Centre, Kensington, Perth

Carrying out research in fluid dynamics of magmatic flows, specifically around the formation of sulfide ore bodies.- HPC and scientific computing, computational fluid dynamics - Machine learning and data science, data reduction and visualisation- Various communication activities: paper writing, scientific seminars, teaching, workshops, conferences etc

Hobart, Tasmania

Delivered technical courses on magmatic ore genesis at CET, University of Western Australia, and CODES, University of Tasmania as part of the Master of Economic Geology programme. (part time)

Canberra, Australia

Carried out research on the fluid dynamics of lava flow emplacement

Involved the analysis of the structure and chemistry of rocks which are part of the ultra-high pressure metamorphic terranes on Ios, Greece. Work included thin-section, structural and microprobe analysis, as well as the creation of a new high-pressure differential geo-thermo-barometer using amphibole geochemistry based on probe data and THERMOCALC.

Canberra

During a summer scholarship at the Research School of Earth Sciences I investigated the stability of lava domes using analogue models in the GFD laboratory. The aim of the research was to find was that the domes could undergo sector collapse via a viscous mechanism.

Phd, Earth Physics

Bsc(Hons), Geology, Honours, First Class

Geology major with main focuses on structural geology, metamorphic and igneous petrology and tectonics. Also studied physics and.

Dipabrsm, Music Performance