Applied AI · Independent Research · Sydney
Ideas tested in the real world.
I am an enterprise AI go-to-market and business development leader with 25+ years spanning product engineering, delivery and commercial leadership across APAC and global markets. I stay hands-on with applied AI and machine learning—especially conservation, decision intelligence and generative systems—to keep learning and bring deeper, more practical understanding to my professional conversations.
Selected work
Research & systems
Each project is presented as an evidence trail: the problem, the technical decision, measurable outcomes, and the broader lesson. The work spans conservation, responsible decision-making, generative media and financial analysis.
Wildlife ID by Sound
An offline acoustic identification pipeline covering 234 Pantanal species across birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles and insects.
PYTORCH · ONNX · PERCH V2 · SED POOLING · MLOPSWildlife ID by Vision
A jaguar re-identification system showing why frozen foundation features can outperform fine-tuning on scarce conservation data.
DINOV2-GIANT · METRIC LEARNING · TRIPLET LOSS · 0.950 MAPDecision Lens
Evidence-grounded decision intelligence using retrieval and behavioural science to surface cognitive bias in high-stakes strategy.
RAG · FAISS · BM25 · BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE · STREAMLITSonarAI Voice Synthesis
A privacy-preserving text-to-speech engine with multilingual built-in voices, zero-shot cloning and broadcast-ready output.
XTTS V2 · KOKORO-82M · FASTAPI · EBU R128 · SSMLStocks Value Investor
A rules-driven equity screener combining established value-investing strategies with an LLM-assisted investment thesis.
PYTHON · LLAMA-3.3 · SQLITE · JSON RULES ENGINE · DOCKERReal-Time Face Recognition
Low-latency WebRTC streaming and modern embedding extraction for production-oriented identity verification.
INSIGHTFACE · WEBRTC · ONNX RUNTIME · HUGGING FACEPublications & tools
Writing in the open
Accessible explainers sit beside methods papers and live demonstrations, creating multiple paths into the same research for practitioners, executives and technical peers.
Articles on Machine Learning
An ongoing collection of applied AI and machine learning writing.
Medium ↗ ExplainerA Beginner’s Guide to Bioacoustics
How computer vision techniques help identify wildlife by sound.
Medium ↗ Case studyThe Jaguar Spotter
How frozen foundation models enable precision wildlife monitoring.
AI in Plain English ↗ EssayRaising the Machine: Governance & Cooperation for AGI
Why AI models inherit the divisions of the societies that build them, and why cooperation across geopolitical rivalries matters for building AGI safely.
LinkedIn ↗ EssayStrategic Restraint Hypothesis for AGI
Exploring why an AGI smart enough to understand us might choose to hold back its capabilities rather than act on unbounded ambition.
AI in Plain English ↗ Research paperBioacoustics: Model Selection, Optimisation & Deployment
A methods paper on wildlife sound classification for edge devices.
Research Square ↗ Research paperModel Evaluation for Wildlife Re-Identification
Comparing fine-tuned vision models against frozen foundation features with metric learning on small jaguar datasets.
Research Square ↗ Live applicationWildlife ID by Sound
Upload a field recording and receive ranked species detections.
Hugging Face ↗ Research identityVerified research record
A persistent author identity connecting research contributions.
ORCID ↗Continuous practice
Selected credentials
Professional study across AI infrastructure, MLOps, responsible AI, cloud and statistical learning supports the applied research practice.
