Experience

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  MOGLabs

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Lead Product Developer

    • May 2023 - Present
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Designing and developing tools for optical physics. Laser drivers, locking servos, wavemeters and other diagnostic devices. From inception as a physics concept through to customer-facing control and visualisation applications, I create tools that improve laboratory workflows

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  Cylite

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Lead Production Software Engineer

    • Nov 2022 - May 2023
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Developed tools and processes for production automation and calibration activities on Cylite's world-leading HP-OCT system. Established quality metrics for production processes to assist in early problem identification. Engaged with SMEs to understand and translate requirements, to create tools with maximum impact. Rolled out 5 new software tools in <6 months, yielding production efficiencies that eliminated days from the average unit build-time.

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  ATOMOS

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Engineering lead for the ProResRAW project, and senior developer on the "AtomOS" embedded RTOS running on Xilinx MPSoCs. Key responsibilities included stakeholder management, specifications negotiation, data analysis, and escalated support for partner organisations. Key contributions included managing firmware releases, multitasking up to 6 new RAW cameras simultaneously, improving core IP for real-time video processing algorithms, implementing simultaneous proxy recording functionality underpinning cloud features, and resolution of OS-level issues.

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  MOGLabs

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Research And Development Engineer

    • Jul 2016 - Apr 2021
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Design, development and support for multiple product lines. Specialising in optical engineering, physics modelling, bare-metal firmware development, python-based tools development, and customer-facing graphical user interfaces. Managed multiple product lines, assisted with sales, and provided technical support.

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  ICFO

  • Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    • Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
    • Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

    Post-doctoral research fellow managing the "Atoms 2" laboratory of the Mitchell group, a future-technologies research group developing a new approach to ultra-precise magnetometry using spinor BECs and squeezed states. I overhauled laboratory methods, managed a team of scientists, directed research, and made purchasing decisions, leading to the successful realisation of the initial experimental goal within the year of my tenure.

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  Monash University

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Sessional Lecturer

    • Feb 2013 - Jun 2015

    Sessional lecturer for School of Physics, teaching "Modern Optics" sub-unit of PHS3051. Primarily covering the wave theory of optics from first principles, through to Fourier imaging methods.

  • Laboratory Demonstrator

    • Jan 2011 - Jun 2015

    Laboratory demonstrator for third-year practical laboratories in the School of Physics. Also involved in development work for improving and upgrading experiments

  • Systems Administration

    • Feb 2013 - Jul 2013

    Systems administration of two Gentoo-based linux servers for remote access, data logging, and web serving. Configuration and maintenance of apache, foswiki, joomla!, redmine, openvpn and mercurial systems. Developed a monitoring and notification system based on syslog-ng, gammu-smsd, gateone and FCGI for aggregating updates from distributed logging equipment, monitoring critical apparatus and notifying of failures (e.g. power, water cooling) requiring user intervention.

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  University of Melbourne

  • Teaching Assistant and Tutor

    • Feb 2008 - Nov 2009

    Teaching assistant for fourth-year honours course 640-401 "Quantum Mechanics A". Also tutor and laboratory demonstration for range of first-year subjects, including 640-131, 640-142, 640-162.

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  Australian Catholic University

  • Melbourne campus

  • Sessional Lecturer

    • Aug 2008 - Nov 2008
    • Melbourne campus

    Sessional lecturer-in-charge of SCIO201: History and Philosophy of Science for School of Arts and Sciences at the ACU (Melbourne).