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Thanks for dropping by. I’m a designer, researcher, and educator with extensive industrial, academic, and clinical experience. Please take a look at my experience, publications, and design portfolio using the navigation bar above, and get in touch to discuss future opportunities.
My career has encompassed practicing, studying, and teaching design across a range of contexts. I have investigated and applied design engineering, strategic design innovation, and user centred design in maxillofacial, orthopaedic, and cardiovascular fields. In particular, I have liaised with surgeons, prosthetists, and engineers to develop designs for patient-specific guides and implants in cranio-maxillofacial surgery; and have led the development of publications describing such innovations in peer-reviewed journals. I worked part-time on a Ph.D. to refine quality procedures and to standardise a personalised implant design process. In parallel, I developed and implemented a certified ISO 13485 quality management system for implant design. More recently, I have planned hundreds of robotically-assisted hip and knee replacements, at the cutting edge of orthopaedic surgery.
At the University of Sydney, I led the writing of a successful ARC funding bid on behalf of, and in collaboration with an industrial partner and senior academic investigators. Similarly, I extended my publication record with a range of peer-reviewed contributions on medical design innovation. They addressed mechanical circulatory support specifically, and patient-centred healthcare more generally. This work explored themes of entrepreneurship, design management, usability, quality-of-life, and emotional wellbeing in high-risk scenarios.
At the University of Queensland, I have independently co-ordinated, lectured, and tutored for the brand new Design: Experience (DSGN1200) course, in the new university-wide Bachelor of Design program. Student feedback and satisfaction scores were excellent. I also collaboratively designed, co-ordinated, and tutored a new iteration of the Design: Organisation (DSGN2100) course with an expert in Design Innovation.
I enjoy working in small-to-medium sized teams in which genuine relationships can develop, and where each member can make a distinct impact. I am always methodical, detail-oriented, and rigorous, and am comfortable with taking ownership of a task to deliver high quality outcomes as an individual, when independent work is required. I love distilling complex and multi-faceted problems into manageable, testable, and explanatory concepts, especially for students and non-designers.
Outside of work, I enjoy film and digital street and documentary photography, reading, and live music.