Joined the Trimble Technology team as a senior engineering leader managing a very diverse team (cultural, focus, and composition).The team is composed of PhD researchers from Trimble's partnership with the Cloud-BIM consortium, devops engineering, as well as engineers working on various technology research topics. The team also consists of the core development team of the very prominent Trimble Live Sharing technology.I also use my software engineering and 3D commercial experience… Show more Joined the Trimble Technology team as a senior engineering leader managing a very diverse team (cultural, focus, and composition).The team is composed of PhD researchers from Trimble's partnership with the Cloud-BIM consortium, devops engineering, as well as engineers working on various technology research topics. The team also consists of the core development team of the very prominent Trimble Live Sharing technology.I also use my software engineering and 3D commercial experience, as well as my academic background in Machine Learning and AI to assist in discussions within the wider Trimble and to review technologies for possible technology enablement and partnerships. Show less

I lead the technology development of the computational design platform for the newly formed Computational Design Group within Trimble as part of my transition through the acquisition of MatterMachine in 2017.This platform (branded ‘Materia’) powers newly released Live Components functionality in SketchUp 2021! (https://forums.sketchup.com/t/introducing-a-new-kind-of-sketchup-object-live-components/139815/1)Instigated and collaborated in several integrations of the computational… Show more I lead the technology development of the computational design platform for the newly formed Computational Design Group within Trimble as part of my transition through the acquisition of MatterMachine in 2017.This platform (branded ‘Materia’) powers newly released Live Components functionality in SketchUp 2021! (https://forums.sketchup.com/t/introducing-a-new-kind-of-sketchup-object-live-components/139815/1)Instigated and collaborated in several integrations of the computational design platform in cross-divisional projects within Trimble, furthering innovation collaboration.Integrated the platform with the Trimble ecosystem on various fronts like authorisation, backend data storage, etc.Championed infrastructure-as-code by supporting the development of an AWS cloud service stack for our .Net Core computational design engine using AWS CloudFormation templates and a plethora of AWS technologies. This enabled consistent and reproducible deployments and unlocked CI/CD workflows.Designed and implemented an innovative compute scaling strategy to leverage the intricacies of the stateful computational design engine and its communication via websockets. This leveraged several technologies on different levels in the cloud stack, effectively providing compute scaling, session sharing, session management and security, etc.Initiated and developed a client-side SDK in Js and .Net Core to expose and ease the use of the computational design cloud service platform. Documented the SDK via an innovative custom developed “live” web application using the cloud service through the same Js SDK itself and where code snippets can be executed and the resultant 3D geometry seen as code is executed.Managed devops aspects for the platform like CI/CD using Bamboo, etc. Show less

The Alliance for OpenUSD Steering Committee comprises technical, business, and community leaders committed to driving the open standards technology, including one from each of the Founding Member companies and elected representatives of the general membership.I'm representing Trimble as an elected member of the steering committee.

Representing Trimble as a general member of the Alliance for OpenUSD.Formed by Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) is an open organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description).AOUSD believes standardizing the 3D ecosystem will enable developers and content creators to more easily describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects and build an ever-widening range of… Show more Representing Trimble as a general member of the Alliance for OpenUSD.Formed by Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) is an open organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description).AOUSD believes standardizing the 3D ecosystem will enable developers and content creators to more easily describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects and build an ever-widening range of 3D-enabled products and services. Part of the Joint Development Foundation, AOUSD brings together a diverse and inclusive community of participants to provide an open forum for collaborative development and discussion around OpenUSD. Show less

The AOUSD AECO Interest Group was formed to strategically explore and advocate for the integration of OpenUSD within the AECO sector. The group’s primary goal is to close the gap between the current capabilities of OpenUSD and the unique demands of the AECO industry.The Interest Group will focus on evaluating OpenUSD’s potential within AECO, offering recommendations for its adoption, and examining how it aligns with established standards such as IFC. By identifying and prioritizing the… Show more The AOUSD AECO Interest Group was formed to strategically explore and advocate for the integration of OpenUSD within the AECO sector. The group’s primary goal is to close the gap between the current capabilities of OpenUSD and the unique demands of the AECO industry.The Interest Group will focus on evaluating OpenUSD’s potential within AECO, offering recommendations for its adoption, and examining how it aligns with established standards such as IFC. By identifying and prioritizing the key requirements for incorporating OpenUSD into AECO workflows, the group will guide future development efforts. Moreover, it will provide valuable insights to both OpenUSD developers and AECO professionals, fostering a collaborative understanding that will drive innovation and accelerate adoption across the industry.Through these efforts, the AOUSD AECO Interest Group will play a pivotal role in shaping OpenUSD’s evolution to address the specific needs of the AECO sector. Show less

Representing Trimble on buildingSMART's Strategic Advisory Council (SAC).Strategic Advisory Council (SAC) membership is the most senior form of buildingSMART's organizational membership. It is designed to appeal to those leading multinational enterprises who believe that full implementation and adoption of open BIM is strategically important to the built environment sector and to their own enterprise and wish to play a strategic role in driving forward its implementation.SAC… Show more Representing Trimble on buildingSMART's Strategic Advisory Council (SAC).Strategic Advisory Council (SAC) membership is the most senior form of buildingSMART's organizational membership. It is designed to appeal to those leading multinational enterprises who believe that full implementation and adoption of open BIM is strategically important to the built environment sector and to their own enterprise and wish to play a strategic role in driving forward its implementation.SAC members will have a direct role in shaping the strategy and helping to determine priorities and focus. They will have a formal role in semi-annual meetings to advise the ExCom or Board of buildingSMART International on its standards and compliance programs, managing its position in the industry, gaining engagement for standards development and deployment and on its international chapter strategy. Show less

Developed an advanced motion capture hardware product used in feature films, provided software engineering contracting services to Weta Digital, as well as providing diverse human motion analysis consulting services.

Leading this startup, our vision was to build the most intuitive focusing platform for filmmakers, creating the best filming experience.We help filmmakers keep focus, every time.Kiné6 was part of New Zealand’s first manufacturing accelerator in 2015.It was also part of the NZ wearables delegate to the US in 2016 through government sponsorship by Callaghan Innovation.https://callaghaninnovation.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/welcome-to-the-freak-show/This company was spun… Show more Leading this startup, our vision was to build the most intuitive focusing platform for filmmakers, creating the best filming experience.We help filmmakers keep focus, every time.Kiné6 was part of New Zealand’s first manufacturing accelerator in 2015.It was also part of the NZ wearables delegate to the US in 2016 through government sponsorship by Callaghan Innovation.https://callaghaninnovation.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/welcome-to-the-freak-show/This company was spun down and the IP transferred to MotionSynth Ltd. Show less

Acquired by Trimble 2017.Joined the startup to position its computational design technology for commercialisation. MatterMachine was utilising concepts from the visual effects industry and applying that to architectural and design industries. Leveraging my background in CAD/CAM and the visual effects industry, I led the technological development with several forays into possible business ventures, building integrations and showcases with the likes of SketchUp (Trimble), Tekla Structures… Show more Acquired by Trimble 2017.Joined the startup to position its computational design technology for commercialisation. MatterMachine was utilising concepts from the visual effects industry and applying that to architectural and design industries. Leveraging my background in CAD/CAM and the visual effects industry, I led the technological development with several forays into possible business ventures, building integrations and showcases with the likes of SketchUp (Trimble), Tekla Structures (Trimble), IKEA Communications, Siemens Next 47 via integration of Siemens Parasolid geometry kernel, and others.This culminated in the acquisition of MatterMachine by Trimble in 2017 championed by their Architecture and Design division (SketchUp). I was intimately involved in the fostering of the relationship, presentations, and the due diligence process.I injected best-practices into the development processes; mentoring and evangelising core concepts, establishing testing methodologies, as well as implementing toolchains to support those concepts.I re-architected the core computational design engine to be a pure service, removing its dependency from the Unity engine, thus enabling more innovative uses of the engine itself. Utilising websockets and an innovative partial state update algorithm, we achieved fast client geometry updates in near-time.I migrated it to .Net Core for cross platform support, with the vision of running it as a cloud service, bolstering the computational design as-a-service angle. Show less

Feature Film credits (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4554802/):The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)Fast & Furious 7 (2015)Assisted in general pipeline engineering and development in the motion capture department. Contributed to intra and inter-department specifications of data deliverables.Guided junior team members and provided a… Show more Feature Film credits (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4554802/):The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)Fast & Furious 7 (2015)Assisted in general pipeline engineering and development in the motion capture department. Contributed to intra and inter-department specifications of data deliverables.Guided junior team members and provided a sounding board for general and technical considerations.Architected and developed multi-core real-time video processing and recording pipeline and applications used in virtual productions. These are used in major productions to deliver reference footage in unprecedented turn-around time to editorial departments.Leveraged HPC hardware and techniques to develop a novel video-based facial performance capture technology to provide real-time emotional feedback of actor performances for virtual production. Show less

Feature Film credits (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4554802/): Avatar (2009) Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) The Adventures of Tintin (2011) The Avengers (2012)Instrumental in establishing best development practices and processes in the motion capture department resulting in well-managed deployable software for virtual production which greatly enabled predictable software delivery.Developed a language-agnostic project specification and build system as… Show more Feature Film credits (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4554802/): Avatar (2009) Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) The Adventures of Tintin (2011) The Avengers (2012)Instrumental in establishing best development practices and processes in the motion capture department resulting in well-managed deployable software for virtual production which greatly enabled predictable software delivery.Developed a language-agnostic project specification and build system as extension to CMake to address managing software development of several applications and APIs and their interdependencies. This increased developer productivity and reliability of our released software.Developed data interchange formats with accompanied cross-language APIs specifically to motion capture to provide normalised access to generic data as a platform for algorithmic development.Researched and developed algorithms and applications for camera calibration, motion tracking, and 3D reconstruction, based off latest techniques in multi-view geometry and computer vision.Gained significant knowledge and experience in technical video data acquisition, video hardware, motion capture hardware and systems, sync pulse generators and related gear, timecode, and non-homogenous multi-camera setup and data integration. Show less

Acquired by Dassault Systèmes 2016 (https://www.3ds.com/products-services/simulia/products/antenna-magus/)I was fortunate enough to be part of the founding members and the lead software engineer and architect of a multidisciplinary team of people in a start-up company as a spin-off from my previous company, EMSS. We developed an expert system for designing antennas (www.antennamagus.com) using cutting edge user experience designing methodologies and solid scrum Agile… Show more Acquired by Dassault Systèmes 2016 (https://www.3ds.com/products-services/simulia/products/antenna-magus/)I was fortunate enough to be part of the founding members and the lead software engineer and architect of a multidisciplinary team of people in a start-up company as a spin-off from my previous company, EMSS. We developed an expert system for designing antennas (www.antennamagus.com) using cutting edge user experience designing methodologies and solid scrum Agile processes.My involvement in the whole process for the new product – from its inception, through prototype development, to where it is now - was to manage the software development with specific duties of feasibility studies; technology choices; technical product specification; architecting and implementation of the prototype, the concept product, as well as leading the software development team for the real product with all its responsibilities.I was responsible for the whole software code base for the product. Show less

Acquired by Altair 2014 (http://www.altairasean.com/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11023&news_country=en-AS)Senior software engineer of 10+ team, developing a multi-platform CAD/CAM application, as well as a visualisation and analysis application for electromagnetic field computations (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEKO).We successfully applied Agile software engineering methodologies for the duration of my tenure, delivering 3 major releases (and a few minor releases) of the… Show more Acquired by Altair 2014 (http://www.altairasean.com/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11023&news_country=en-AS)Senior software engineer of 10+ team, developing a multi-platform CAD/CAM application, as well as a visualisation and analysis application for electromagnetic field computations (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEKO).We successfully applied Agile software engineering methodologies for the duration of my tenure, delivering 3 major releases (and a few minor releases) of the product suite. I was actively involved in the full product development life-cycle: estimating, object-oriented design/architecting and implementation, testing, reviews, documentation, and maintenance of 2 products in the suite – the CAD/CAM application and the post processing/visualisation application.I spearheaded several software acquisition phases to source tools for enhancing our team’s productivity and reliability. I also co-authored many of the software engineering practices and policies regarding technical software engineering issues as well as process-related arrangements for our development team. Show less

I taught several undergraduate and post-graduate courses (formal languages, compiler construction, software engineering, neural networks). I also developed new course work and structured course material for new courses.

I performed research within the field of Knowledge-based Neurocomputing, Machine Learning, and Complexity Theory. My research was aimed at the completion of a PhD degree to be conferred by University of Mannheim.I performed general administration within the research group, was involved in general research collaboration, participated in European Union Framework project proposals, and reviewed scientific publications for esteemed journals (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks) and… Show more I performed research within the field of Knowledge-based Neurocomputing, Machine Learning, and Complexity Theory. My research was aimed at the completion of a PhD degree to be conferred by University of Mannheim.I performed general administration within the research group, was involved in general research collaboration, participated in European Union Framework project proposals, and reviewed scientific publications for esteemed journals (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks) and international conferences.I also supervised several graduate and post-graduate student internships and theses. Show less