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I am now looking to shift our digital team from delivering services to delivering products as well. We are building things here that are durable and have enduring value for our clients. Being a software engineer with a great deal of track record in the simulation, integration and analytics domains, my first love is supporting decision-making. Through our digital twin tech, BEYON, I believe we have the perfect tools to bridge systems for decision-making between people in an organisation.This new role also marks a shift in how we think of ourselves at Beca. For the last decade and a half we have increasingly been building software tools and solutions for our clients. Up until now, we have been very modest about how we think about these as "products" and have focused this work on helping our existing clients rather than selling to new clients.With Digital becoming ever more crucial to our success and the success of our clients, we've recognised we need to put some focused thinking around our products. This role gives me a mandate (both internally and externally) to further the cause of digital products at Beca.We're just getting started.

I am very pleased and humbled to have been appointed Beca's highest technical honour. The title of "technical fellow" recognises excellence in a technical discipline within Beca and "fellows" are held accountable for the practice within their discipline. This appointment also highlights the recognition within Beca that software engineering is one of Beca's core disciplines and competencies, something we have worked hard to develop over many years.

Auckland, New Zealand

Software design and implementation including managing project teams to deliver software solutions to customers.

I started working for Beca in early 2005 and was almost immediately sent abroad to work on the P-3K2 Orion project in Texas with L-3. Before leaving for Texas I worked on a number of internal projects including deliverable status register and optimisation of warehouse location.

In my spare time, I supervise final year students for the University of Auckland, in their INFOSYS.342 project paper. The project is a capstone paper, giving the students much needed exposure to the software development industry and real-world projects.

Contract work for L-3, upgrading the software for New Zealand’s P3 Orion aeroplanes. My particular area was integrating a MIDS terminal to the Orion’s data management system.

Was responsible for leading a team of developers maintaining and working on upgrading an enterprise learning management system (over 30,000 users).

Bcom (Hons), Information Systems

First Class Honours

Bcom, Information Systems & Operations Research

No less than A- grade