Experience

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  Earflo

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Founder/CTO

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Earflo is developing a device to non-invasively treat chronic ear infections in young children. The device was inventing during my Stanford Biodesign Global Faculty Training program.

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  REX Ortho

  • Perth, Australia

  • Founder/CTO

    • Dec 2017 - Present
    • Perth, Australia

    REX Ortho was founded to commercialise the REX Screw; a removable, expandable orthopaedic screw to increase fixation strength and reduce incidence of screw related failure without increasing the complexity of implantation or removal, if required.

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  Perth Biodesign

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Director

    • Jan 2019 - Present

    Perth Biodesign brings together teams of doctors, scientists, engineers and business people to develop medical devices that address unmet medical needs.

  • Perth Biodesign Course Director

    • Jan 2018 - Dec 2019

    Perth Biodesign brings together teams of doctors, scientists, engineers and business people to develop medical devices that address unmet medical needs.

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  Biodesign Australia

  • Australia

  • Director

    • Jun 2019 - Present
    • Australia

    Biodesign Australia brings together Biodesign programs from around Australia, including programs in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney to develop collaborative programs and to share resources and best practice.

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  The University of Western Australia

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Senior Lecturer

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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  The BridgeTech Program

  • Queensland, Australia

  • Steering Committee Member

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Queensland, Australia

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  Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Industry mentor

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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  Curtin University

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Adjunct senior research fellow

    • Jan 2023 - Present

  • Research Associate

    • Jul 2017 - Dec 2022

  • Specialist Mentor

    • Mar 2016 - Dec 2018

    Mentor for engineering undergraduate students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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  ChinUp

  • Perth, Australia

  • Founder/CTO

    • Nov 2013 - Present
    • Perth, Australia

    Co-inventor of the ChinUp neck support

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  BME IDEA APAC

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Conference Chair

    • Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    I co-chaired the BME IDEA APAC 2022 conference in Perth.

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  Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • GFIT Fellow

    • Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Each year, Stanford Biodesign offers a Global Faculty Training Program, which is a five-month intensive training experience conducted at Stanford. Its purpose is to instruct faculty members from universities outside the United States on the biodesign innovation process and how to teach it so that they may launch similar programs at institutions around the world.

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  Australian Government Department of Education and Training

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Endeavour Executive Fellow

    • Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    The Endeavour Executive Fellowship provides financial support towards professional development opportunities for high achievers in business, industry, education or government. My role in this fellowship is to connect networks of world-class clinicians, researchers, business people and engineers to form exceptional multi-disciplinary MedTech teams based in Australia and the US to facilitate collaboration and exchange.

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  SPARK Co-Lab

  • Perth, Australia

  • Assistant Director

    • Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Perth, Australia

    The SPARK Co-Lab Design Course brings together teams of doctors, scientists, engineers and business people with a passion for development of medical devices.

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  AECOM

  • Perth, Australia

  • Mechanical Engineer

    • Jan 2009 - Mar 2012
    • Perth, Australia

    I worked as an mechanical and acoustic engineer at AECOM. I was tasked with generating peer-reviewed evidence that pathogens could travel through air conditioning ducts to support the argument for separate air-conditioning systems for contagious or immunosuppressed patients at Fiona Stanely Hospital..I was granted $5,000 to perform research to verifying acoustic models of noise transmission down air-conditioning ducts modelsFor 2011 I volunteered as the president of the Young Professionals Development committee, which organised training for graduate Engineers.In 2011 I was the leader of a 4 person team tasked with auditing the maintenance of the building services systems at various defense sites over a month.

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  Royal Perth Hospital

  • Perth, Australia

  • Vacation Student

    • 2008 - 2008
    • Perth, Australia

    Final year vacation work in the Bioengineering and Medical Physics Department I worked predominantly on the two-part intramedullary nail project but also worked on other projects including custom cranioplasty plates and burns masks under the supervision of experienced Bio-engineers.

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  DSM Consulting Engineers

  • Perth, Australia

  • Design engineer/drafter

    • Dec 2006 - Mar 2007
    • Perth, Australia

    Vacation work as an undergraduate Mechanical EngineerI worked under the supervision of experienced design engineers on a number of bespoke mechanical design projects.