AP Labs Lead
Australia Post · Melbourne · Nov 2025 – present
Leads enterprise AI strategy, architecture and delivery for AP Labs, taking agentic AI from proof of value to production in a regulated, national organisation.
- Established Australia Post's first enterprise AI governance framework, enabling safe AI use across sensitive HR and operational data.
- Secured executive sponsorship and funding for the AP Labs AI portfolio, moving several initiatives from proof of value to pilot.
- Built and deployed production-grade agentic AI systems across workforce, retail and operational domains in under 12 months.
- Produces executive and board reporting on portfolio progress, risk posture and investment outcomes, and manages the strategic relationship with Google.
Senior IT/OT Solution Designer
WEL Networks · Hamilton · Jan 2025 – Nov 2025
Designed real-time data and automation platforms that process network telemetry and trigger operational decisions.
- Designed OT data architecture across PI, Kafka and Solace event streams, object storage and Snowflake.
- Built a hosting-capacity engine and APIs that automated distributed-generation assessments and replaced manual spreadsheets.
- Delivered the Raglan battery storage proof of concept, from DER gateway through secure MQTT/2030.5 to PI Vision.
Solution Architect, Digital Solutions Lead
Jemena · Melbourne · Jul 2024 – Dec 2024
Architecture and delivery lead for Jemena's future-networks data platform.
- Delivered the Centralised Data Hub as solution architect and programme manager, on Databricks, dbt, AWS and Kafka, aligned to ISO and TOGAF.
- Designed a data mesh operating model and lakehouse with Delta Lake and Unity Catalog for real-time and batch analytics.
- Put machine-learning models into production for failure prediction, fault detection and outage response, and introduced AI-driven phase balancing to reduce transformer stress.
- Led the DERMS and network-oriented virtual power plant architecture.
Systems and Digital Innovation Lead
Austin Health · Melbourne · Apr 2023 – Jun 2024
Led IT systems, cloud and digital innovation for the North Eastern Public Health Unit.
- Designed IT governance aligned to ISO 27001, with privacy-by-design across health data systems and HL7/FHIR interoperability.
- Owned the architecture and innovation roadmap, technical design authority, programme budgets and vendors.
Technology Innovation Lead (Senior Manager, Digital and Emerging Technologies)
EY · Auckland · Jul 2019 – Mar 2023
Led emerging-technology strategy and consulting delivery across EY New Zealand.
- Built and scaled the emerging technology practice to a delivery team of 30, across financial services, utilities, retail and government.
- Owned business development end to end, from client engagement and opportunity shaping to RFP responses and delivery budgets.
- Architected and delivered AI, blockchain, IoT and cloud solutions, including trade-document automation, a marketing segmentation engine and carbon-footprint tracking for a major NZ dairy co-operative, and a document approval system for Auckland Council and Watercare.
Lead Architect, Innovation and Emerging Technology
ASB Bank · Auckland · Nov 2018 – Jun 2019
Set the bank's emerging-technology strategy and guided venture investments through the ASB Edge programme.
- Architected Kauri ID, a self-sovereign digital identity prototype built with 15+ New Zealand organisations, applying data sovereignty principles including Māori data sovereignty.
- Prototyped AI and machine-learning compliance tools and blockchain-based supervisory applications for regulators.
- Represented ASB as a speaker at universities, panels and industry events.
Earlier career
2009 – 2018
- Senior Software Engineer, ASB Bank (2018)
- Full Stack and Mobile Developer, BNZ, Aviat Networks, Thundermaps and KAMAR (2016 – 2018)
- Projects Consultant, Ministry of Health, Kuwait (2015 – 2016)
- Innovation Software Engineer, a leading bank in Singapore (2010 – 2015)
- Junior Developer, Euro RSCG, United Kingdom (2009)