Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
I am a senior technology leader with over 30 years’ experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing engineering organisations across SaaS, payments, fleet management, and enterprise platforms. I specialise in turning complex, mission-critical requirements into resilient, scalable products, and in building teams that deliver consistently in regulated and high-availability environments. I am equally comfortable defining long-term technology strategy, rolling up my sleeves on architecture, and partnering with CEOs, boards, investors, and enterprise clients. I have held VP Engineering and Head of Engineering roles, including being the first employee and long-term VP of Engineering at ProjectManager.com, where I owned the technology and product functions end-to-end and helped scale the platform to over 13,000 customers globally, including organisations such as the UN and NASA. I also led technical due diligence through to the company’s sale to private investors. Currently, I lead the Fleet Platform capability at PDI, a global mobile payments provider, where I architected a scalable platform for the US and global fleet markets and built a high-performing engineering team delivering enterprise-grade solutions. I have also transformed our software development lifecycle through AI-driven, agentic workflows, embedding AI into development, code review, and backlog processes, which has materially improved delivery velocity, engineering quality, and team effectiveness. I am known as a pragmatic, calm leader who brings clarity to delivery, develops strong engineering leaders, and ensures technology execution remains aligned with business outcomes, while leveraging emerging AI capabilities to modernise engineering practices and accelerate value delivery.
Joined PDI Technologies when the company acquired P97 Networks. Continuing to serve in the same role with new opportunities for growth.
P97 is a global provider of mobile payments and convenience retail software, supporting enterprise clients including major credit card brands. Responsibilities ● Defined the architecture and technical roadmap for the Fleet Platform ● Built and led a high-performing engineering team ● Owned Agile delivery, backlog refinement, and governance ● Acted as senior technical partner to business stakeholders and enterprise clients ● Led pre-sales demonstrations and bespoke solution design Key achievements ● Launched the Fleet Platform into the US market ● Delivered bespoke fleet solutions for a major credit card brand ● Owned Agile delivery, backlog refinement, and governance ● Architected a scalable, global digital payments platform ● Transformed the SDLC through adoption of AI-driven agentic workflows, embedding AI into development, code review, and backlog processes to materially improve delivery velocity and engineering quality, reducing cycle times and increasing throughput ● Led the shift to AI-augmented engineering practices, upskilling the team and redefining ways of working to leverage emerging agentic tooling
Re-engaged by the CEO to stabilise and prepare the business for its next phase of growth and eventual sale. Took over leadership of the development function with a clear mandate to address technical risk, modernise the platform, and support investor confidence. Responsibilities ● Assumed leadership of the engineering team and delivery roadmap ● Identified and addressed key areas of accumulated technical debt ● Led the migration of the SaaS platform to AWS, improving scalability, resilience, and operational maturity ● Established stronger engineering practices and delivery discipline ● Acted as primary technical lead for investor engagement and technical due diligence Achievements ● Reduced platform risk and improved operational readiness ● Successfully supported technical due diligence through to the sale of the company to private investors
WEX provides fleet card solutions to large multi-national petrol companies. I was contracted to lead a team to upgrade the legacy IFCS platform operated by Caltex Australia to the latest technologies available, this equated to mitigating 15 years of technical debt. Responsibilities ● Project manager for the IFCS upgrade project ● Ownership of the architecture for software components making up the upgrade ● Technical lead for the development team ● On-site support for the software roll out Achievements ● Mission critical software delivered on time and on budget ● Minimal issues raised throughout project lifecycle
ProjectManager.com is a globally recognised SaaS project management platform. As the company’s first employee, I owned all technical strategy and execution, building the product from inception to international scale. Responsibilities ● Complete ownership of the technical direction of the ProjectManager.com platform ● Creation of a long term technological road map for the company ● Selection of key technologies & platforms to construct the ProjectManager.com SaaS solution ● Key role in the company’s successful investment round in 2014 ● Oversight of all software development activities Achievements ● Built a very successful business from scratch ● Company now employs 20 staff in New Zealand and the USA ● Designed and built a high availability SaaS platform that organisations such as the UN and NASA rely on for their project management capability ● Software platform supports over 13,000 customers