City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Complex engineering problem solver, inventor. Machine Learning expert, with experience in delivering holistic and robust engineered systems. Passionate about developing teams to deliver value into businesses. As the Chief Technology Officer of Labs, Michael leads the disruptive launch pad of the Capital Appreciation Group (JSE::CAPPREC). With a PhD in electrical engineering, he brings a wealth of experience in creating successful AI-powered products and building the businesses needed to bring them to market. He dedicates his time to developing new products and exploring how technology is shaping the world. Recipient of the Keith Plowden Young Achievers Award—for the most outstanding electrical engineer (2011). 2012 winner of the International Electrotechnical Commission's Young Professional for South Africa.
Innovating, developing, and maturing vibrant products to many diverse global markets. Helping great ideas reach customers have meaningful impact on their operations and systems.
Innovating new value propositions with the Synthesis Labs team
Building and testing new technologies
Passionately drive value delivery to customers through consulting and product deployments. Invented core products which have delivered process improvements >40% to clients globally. Motivate company wide innovation and lead investigations into new and emerging machine learning techniques.
Managed innovation team through which we managed to have impact on multiple aspects of the business: • Dynamic and robust train scheduling to minimise impact of the rolling load shedding that compromised rail capacity; • Energy system design, assembly, and testing; • Adaptive control supported by complex physics model (also part of the development); and • Optimised several systems using many machine learning algorithms.