Experience

Paradyn

• Australia
• Mining
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • 2016 - Present

  Paradyn's BlendOpt software provides bulk-commodity value chain scheduling, planning and management. BlendOpt simultaneously optimises how material should be stockpiled, processed, and blended with the goal of maximizing revenue and reducing costs. BlendOpt provides high quality prescriptive and actionable insights for tactical, operational, and strategic decision making, simplifies complexity, and enables your individuals, teams, and business to coordinate and rapidly respond to variation and disruption.Under the hood, BlendOpt leverages a number of advanced technologies including mathematical optimisation algorithms that search through vast numbers of planning possibilities to discover optimised strategies. The BlendOpt platform offers a flexible modelling environment that can be applied within strategic studies, long term planning, medium term planning and short term scheduling. Areas of plan focus include blend planning, stockpiling strategy, take or pay contracts, 3rd party purchasing contracts, processing strategy, rehandle costs, plant feed planning, product strategy, and delivery to a vessel schedule.

• Co-Founder, Director

  • 2012 - 2016



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director-Decision Science & Data Analytics

  • 2012 - 2013



SolveIT Software

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Data Scientist and Solution Architect, Pit2Port APS

  • 2011 - 2012



University of Birmingham

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Scientist

  • 2009 - 2011



UNSW Canberra

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

  • 2007 - 2009



Johnson & Johnson

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Biopharmaceutical Process Engineer

  • 2003 - 2004