Greater Sydney Area
I am a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with 30+ years of experience spanning global infrastructure, disruptive innovation, and modern software engineering. My career journey has taken me from delivering multi-billion-dollar oil & gas and energy projects across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, to pioneering media technology start-ups in Silicon Valley, and now to building enterprise-scale cloud and AI solutions on AWS. I hold a research doctorate in Management, am a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and have served as Past Chair of ASME’s Management Division and Program Director at Engineers Without Borders USA. What drives me is the challenge of solving complex problems—whether through engineering, digital transformation, or AI/ML innovation—always with an eye on practical outcomes and lasting impact. ⸻ SOFTWARE ENGINEERING – CLOUD, DATA & AI • Full-stack delivery – React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, SQL • AWS architecture – Serverless (Lambda, AppSync, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito), Glue, Athena, S3, Lake Formation • Data engineering – Iceberg & Redshift migrations, PySpark ETL, analytics integration with SageMaker Unified Studio / Bedrock for Date & AI • Modernisation – cloud migrations, re-platforming (Oracle → PostgreSQL), secure SaaS systems at scale • AI/ML solutions – LLMs, GenAI, CNNs, LSTMs, RCFs with SageMaker/TensorFlow; privacy, compliance & bias controls • DevOps & security – CI/CD pipelines (Amplify, GitHub/GitLab CI, Docker, K8s), Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, SAM, CDK), AWS IAM/WAF/GuardDuty/Macie ⸻ INNOVATION – DEVELOPMENT – COMMERCIALISATION • iPTV media technology for augmented broadcast TV • OTT Secure-Transfer-Protocol for TCP/IP data transmission • Ocean wave energy harvesting systems • Flash-calcination with syngas cogeneration and CO₂ capture • Waste treatment & recycling technologies with >90% efficiency ⸻ OIL & GAS • Project & Engineering Manager delivering major onshore/offshore infrastructure in Europe, Middle East & Asia-Pacific • Accountable for projects up to US$1.5B and multicultural teams >4,000
Development and integration of AI & agents with OpenAI and Anthropic AI for workflow automation and analytics dashboard for BI and content curation, also using RAG. Analysis and automation of marketing and customer engagement initiatives. Tech stack AWS IaC, all serverless. Check out https://superclass.online Refactoring and uplift of the MessageVAX App owned by SuperClass from an SPA MVP for native iOS and Android apps, Beta deployment to App Store TestFlight and currently in testing. Check out https://messagevax.com
Data migration from AWS DynamoDB to Apache Iceberg for analytics with Athena, DataBrew, QuickSight and PowerBI. Included data sanitation of deeply nested GraphQL JSON data in DDB using custom Glue scripts in Python for ETL.
Stage 2 upgrade to data architecture, after retiring legacy systems, re-platforming and refactoring to move RDBs from Oracle EE to PostgreSQL, retiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux by moving to AWS Linux 2 and migrating (lift & shift) 30 TB of multi-source data to AWS S3, unifying access to metadata, records and images to one source with Kinesis, Glue and Athena
Start-up. Building the next generation messaging app that surpasses WhatsApp and Signal in privacy and message safety. React mobile first SPA, AWS Lambda API, Cognito auth and Amplify CI/CD
Helping Service NSW fast-track Personal Transaction Services for rebate schemes. TS & React, styled components / Storybook UI, Java / Kotlin backend on AWS