Experience

FB Rice

• Australia
• Legal Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate

  • Jul 2019 - Present

• Patent Attorney

  • Feb 2017 - Present

  Newly registered Patent Attorney working in the fields of aerospace and mechanical engineering, physics and fluid mechanics.

• Trainee Patent Attorney

  • Mar 2014 - Feb 2017



Kyoto University - Cosmic Ray Group

• Researcher

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2011

  • Won a GCOE (Global Centres of Excellence) scholarship to work with the Cosmic Ray Group on the “Sub-MeV gamma-ray Imaging Loaded-on-balloon Experiment” (SMILE) – a development project for a novel Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC). • Assisted in the calibration of the instrument • Designed an Attitude Control System (ACS) for the upcoming balloon-borne test platform • Designed and constructed an aluminium prototype to test the ACS, and began testing • Won a GCOE (Global Centres of Excellence) scholarship to work with the Cosmic Ray Group on the “Sub-MeV gamma-ray Imaging Loaded-on-balloon Experiment” (SMILE) – a development project for a novel Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC). • Assisted in the calibration of the instrument • Designed an Attitude Control System (ACS) for the upcoming balloon-borne test platform • Designed and constructed an aluminium prototype to test the ACS, and began testing



Bunnings

• Australia
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Member

  • Jan 2002 - Sep 2010

  • Team member in support; working on cash registers, customer service, car park attendant • Assisted customers and other team members in all departments utilising my flexibility of product knowledge alongside my natural problem solving abilities • Created simple solutions for “DIY” projects and explained them in simple terms to customers • Team member in support; working on cash registers, customer service, car park attendant • Assisted customers and other team members in all departments utilising my flexibility of product knowledge alongside my natural problem solving abilities • Created simple solutions for “DIY” projects and explained them in simple terms to customers



CSIRO - Wind Energy Research Unit (WERU)

• Researcher

  • Dec 2009 - Feb 2010

  • Investigation of the interannual variability of wind speeds around Australia and its dependence on the El Niño Southern Oscillation; the Indian Ocean Dipole; the eleven year solar cycle; and atmospheric aerosol loading due to volcanic activity. • Used source data acquired by the Bureau of Meteorology at many weather stations around Australia, over a 60 year period in some cases. • Wrote software for data quality control and analysis using “R” (open-source; similar to MatLab) • Discovered many data issues that had not been accounted for in previous studies, which in some cases meant that the researchers involved came to reverse their conclusions • Coauthored paper, “Long-Term Wind Speed Trends over Australia.” J. Climate, Vol. 25, 170–183. Show less



Young Achievement Australia (YAA) Business Exercise – GKN Aerospace

• Founding Member

  • 2007 - 2007

  Project description: • Formed a company together with twenty other aerospace students from Monash and RMIT • Meetings were held at the of fices of GKN Aerospace, our sponsor • Participated in the YAA business exercise/competition to form a company, sell shares to the public to raise capital, manufacture a product, market and sell the product, and finally liquidate the company • Our product was t-shirts, screen printed with original designs • Achieved a 150% rate of return for shareholders in 24 weeks of operation (not paying ourselves wages) Personal involvement: • Suggested using the screen printing method and proposed designs • Sourced materials and equipment; including the preparation of the designs to be burnt into silk screens, building wooden frames, mounting the screens on each frame, purchasing fabric ink and tools • Developed manufacturing procedure and trained all the members • Arranged and lead manufacturing days Show less