Steven Dirven (Phd) Email & Phone Number

North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand

Owns the technical strategy for Software as a Service (SaaS) business with strong capability in telemetry for remote monitoring and control (Internet of Things / IoT). Manages multidisciplinary teams and workstreams from electronics / hardware / firmware design for cellular and satellite connected devices, through to cloud infrastructure and microservice-based web applications. Delivered managed services and strategic direction to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and local/central government customers.• Architected and built a flexible, modular, and scalable IoT solution framework that enables remote monitoring and control solutions to be tailored to specific use cases with minimal code.• Manages development and operations of web services involving a containerised, microservice-basedtechnology stack, including templates suitable for on-premise or cloud deployment.• Developed deep capability and knowledge in event-driven applications using asynchronous, decoupled / loosely-coupled architecture principles. Built custom services and leveraged best-of-breed tools such as Kafka and Clickhouse to realise scalable and performant data processing pipelines.• Leads the development of cellular hardware from first principles, including electronics design, firmware,design for manufacture, tooling, and production / manufacturing using local and international suppliers.• Pioneered the use of Vodafone’s cellular IoT networks (CAT-M1 and NBIoT) with solutions prior tocommercial launch. Developed deep knowledge integrating solutions with cellular networks.• Manages systems for automated ETL tasks to enrich data between disparateenterprise systems.• Maintains a culture of automating away laborious, repetitive, or error-prone processes.• Drives observability campaigns so bottlenecks can be identified and addressed proactively, using alerting and dashboards.• Maintains a security posture, backed by the principles of the NZISM, suitable for government customers.

Enabling One NZ to engage with strategic customers to co-create enterprise solutions leveraging cellular IoT networks. Provided the technical oversight and lead the delivery team for targeted end-to-end solutions.• Led work programmes from presales, coaching the team through to detailed design, through todeployment and after-sales support.• Current focus has been on co-creating enterprise IoT solutions with strategic customers such as the NewZealand Transport Agency• Built the confidence for account managers to proactively have IoT discussions with their customer baseand successfully respond to (and win) competitive RFP processes.• Tuned the SHAPE Technology IoT platform to OneNZ requirements and deployed on Fargate using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodology.

Auckland, New Zealand

•Founded Compress Tech Limited which spun out from commercialisation of my research. A controllingstake was acquired by the New Zealand Comfort Group. Was the largest commercial equity success thatMassey Ventures had been a part of raising.• Taught a wide variety of engineering courses including: Robotics and Automation, Physics, Engineeringprinciples, Final Year research projects, Computer Aided Design (Solidworks) etc.• Won a National AMP Award for engineering research• Published 21 high quality academic publication outputs Citations: 378, h-index = 11, i10-index = 13• Technical Programme Committee for international conferences FDSM17 AIACT17 AMC16 FSDM16 M2VIP16• Invited peer-reviewer for prestigious journals: IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Trans. on Robotics• Secured competitive funding at Seed, Early Career, and Research Programme levels• Developed a research team of 11 people up to PostDoctoral level, and funded /led academic delegation to Nanjing, China

Spidertracks develop portable aircraft tracking products that communicate over the Iridium network. Thiscontract role was to inherit an incomplete product-development project and drive it to completion, takingshape predominantly in firmware features and end-to-end testing.• Oversaw pre-production refinements to the electronic and firmware system architectures for the S6 and S7 satellite-based aircraft tracking products, including recommendations for hardware revisions.• Developed specifications for system and feature-level developments with implementation with FreeRTOSin C.• Undertook rigorous testing to meet the compliance requirements for hardware on the Iridium network aswell as product requirements in the aviation industry.• Made technical recommendations to external hardware and software consultants to ensure solutionreliability / robustness.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechatronics

Engineering Postgraduate Society

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.) (First Class Hons), Mechatronics