As the inventor, the spin-out founder, the licensor, and the executive running a business built on licensed technology. PhD in experimental physics, twenty years moving between the technical work and the commercial calls that sit on top of it.
Granted patents behind Sensability™ Technology, now in Breville's Eye Q toaster range.
A university research spin-out taken through to commercialisation.
Led a business through acquisition, keeping its team and technology intact.
“A company called Sensability have been developing sensors and algorithms for years and helped with Breville's Eye Q Optic Sensors.”
Tom Groundes-Peace, Senior Global Category Manager & Head of Research, Breville — interviewed in The AU Review
I co-founded Sensability in 2011, alongside two colleagues from the University of Adelaide.
Startups, deep tech, commercialisation. Venture building, technology transfer, taking research to market, and the judgement calls that come with running a deep-tech company.
Hands-on, method-level consulting in spectroscopy, chemometrics, data science, machine learning and experimental design, drawn from two decades practising these methods directly.
Know your number before you negotiate.
Salary benchmarks built entirely from real U.S. government wage data: DOL filings and BLS survey data.
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Find the best surf around you.
Surf forecasts for any GPS point on Earth, built from open wave and satellite data and sharpened with machine learning trained on real surf-cam footage.
I like taking something out of a lab and finding out whether it actually works as a business. Twenty years in, I've stayed close to the technical work even while taking on commercial and leadership roles. These days that means building my own software products alongside consulting work.
Delivering, commissioning, and meeting customers and partners in person.
Plus nationwide work across Australia, from state capitals to rural regional centres.
15 granted patents (3 patent families, each granted in Australia, the US, Europe, China, and Russia). 15 peer-reviewed publications, with 356 total citations (Google Scholar, September 2026).