About
Background
10+ years delivering advanced analytics, ML, and Gen AI solutions across public and private sectors.
PhD in applied AI/ML with 10+ years of industry experience delivering advanced analytics, ML, Generative AI, and cloud-based AI solutions across public and private sector organisations.
Strong background in the training and evaluation of ML models, with proven capability in deploying scalable, data-driven solutions that address complex business problems. Experienced across the full AI lifecycle — from production deployment through to cloud integration and enterprise adoption.
Expertise spans Generative AI, ML, advanced analytics, and end-to-end AI solution delivery in production — currently leading AI solutions at Littles Lawyers, and previously shipped Gen AI chatbots serving the Queensland Government.
Experience
Career Timeline
From software engineering foundations to AI solution leadership.
May 2025 — Present
AI Solution Lead
Littles Lawyers
Enterprise Legal AI Assistant — Phase 1
- Led the architecture and delivery of enterprise AI chatbot, combining Azure AI Search, vector retrieval, and metadata-driven ranking to enhance knowledge retrieval across internal systems
Enterprise Legal AI Assistant — Phase 2
- Delivered a production-grade RAG architecture using Pinecone and internal data pipelines, establishing reusable retrieval and integration patterns to generate evidence-based responses aligned with legal and operational requirements
AI Search Cost Optimisation
- Reduced document data-extraction costs by at least 50% in Azure AI Search while maintaining retrieval quality
AI Evaluation & Content Safety
- Implemented RAG evaluation metrics, including faithfulness and answer relevancy, and content safety evaluations including unfairness in Azure AI Foundry
Data Integration & Automation
- Designed and deployed scalable, reusable data-ingestion and ETL workflows using Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Cosmos DB to extract, enrich and synchronise document content and metadata across internal systems
Document Classification
- Designed and deployed AI classification model to automatically categorise legal documents to enhance case-routing capability
Financial Analysis Dashboard
- Deployed Azure Cosmos DB knowledge graph to model client accident timelines, linking key employment and payslip events to strengthen case analysis and evidentiary review
Executive Partnership
- Engage continuously with the CEO, CTO and partners to translate business needs into robust, enterprise-ready architectures that align AI delivery with strategic priorities
Technical Leadership
- Lead and mentor junior developers, conduct architecture, design and code reviews, and oversee deployment readiness, solution quality and alignment with engineering standards
Jan 2025 — May 2025
Senior AI / Data Scientist
University of Queensland — QLD Health (Co-joint position)
Project "Smart Hub"
- Data Integration: Led the mapping of Queensland clinical data into the OMOP common data model using SQL, supporting scalable analytics and AI use cases. Supported the implementation of the native Gen AI model with GPT-2, trained by the OMOP standard data
- AI Solution Development: Contributed to the development of a domain-specific generative AI solution using PyTorch and standardised healthcare data
- Data Governance: Worked with clinical, technical and governance stakeholders to define data requirements and support secure, compliant access to sensitive healthcare data
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Translated complex clinical and technical requirements into practical data and AI delivery outcomes
Nov 2023 — Dec 2024
Senior AI / Data Scientist / Advanced Analytics
Queensland Government — Customer and Digital Group
Project "QChat"
- Enterprise GenAI Delivery: Designed and delivered QChat, a secure enterprise GenAI assistant using Azure OpenAI, Node.js, TypeScript and Next.js
- AI Governance & Safety: Implemented guardrails, monitoring and usage telemetry to support responsible AI adoption and production reliability across government teams
Project "Insight Engine"
- Gathered business requirements to develop a Gen AI solution aimed at guiding future strategic planning in QLD
- Designed and deployed a scalable RAG solution using Azure Functions, Azure AI Search and Azure Cosmos DB, ensuring scalable and efficient performance in line with future-focused strategic foresight
- Created knowledge graphs in NetworkX and applied clustering techniques (community detection) to create future strategic scenarios for QLD, contributing to both high-level foresight and actionable strategic directions
Nov 2023 — Mar 2024
ML Scientist / Data Scientist
University of Queensland — Centre for Health Services Research
Project "Infection Prediction"
- Machine Learning Delivery: Led the design, validation and optimisation of an XGBoost model for predicting clinical infection risk using Python, Scikit-learn and MLflow
- Model Engineering: Applied feature engineering, Bayesian hyperparameter optimisation and model evaluation to improve predictive performance and reliability
- Cloud Deployment: Deployed the production machine-learning model using AWS SageMaker
Jul 2020 — Feb 2022
Senior Software Developer
University of Queensland — QLD Health (Co-joint position)
Project "QUIET" (Queensland Integrated Element Tracker)
- Enterprise Software Engineering: Developed a .NET application supporting data governance, data modelling, metadata management and decision support across Queensland Health systems
- Database Design: Designed and maintained Azure SQL database schemas for enterprise healthcare data-management requirements
- Technical Design & Documentation: Produced technical specifications, architecture documentation, release notes and user guidance throughout the software-development lifecycle
- Engineering Quality: Contributed to code reviews, version control and collaborative delivery using GitHub and established software-engineering practices
Feb 2016 — Jun 2020
Junior and Mid Software Developer / Lead Data Migration
Magentus (formerly Genie Solutions)
Project "Genie Application"
- Full-stack developer on the Genie application in an Agile development environment
- Worked in agile development methodology for writing code, test units and code maintenance
Project "Legacy Data Migration to AWS"
- Lead data migration engineer, responsible for migrating legacy clinical data to Amazon Cloud
- Mentored junior developers, providing technical guidance and support on development best practices, code reviews, and quality assurance
Aug 2014 — Dec 2015
Junior Software Developer
Queensland University of Technology
- Worked as a research assistant, focusing on the development and validation of a comparison application for DNA sequences in Java
- Conducted extensive research on various algorithms and techniques for assessing DNA sequences to identify patterns and variations
- Collaborated with the research team to design and implement the software tool, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and performance for analysing large datasets of DNA sequences
Education
Academic Background
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The University of Queensland
Nov 2019 — Aug 2024
Applied AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare. Thesis: "Artificial intelligence to improve clinical outcomes in hospitals"
Master's Degree
Queensland University of Technology
Jul 2012 — Dec 2013
Software Architecture
Skills
Technical Expertise
Core competencies across the AI/ML and software engineering spectrum.
ML / AI & MLOps
Generative AI & LLMs
Cloud & Deployment
Development & Data
Publications
Implementing AI in Hospitals to Achieve a Learning Health System: Systematic Review of Current Enablers and Barriers
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2024;26:e49655
DOI: 10.2196/49655Machine Learning Clinical Prediction Models for Acute Kidney Injury: The Impact of Baseline Creatinine on Prediction Efficacy
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making · 23, 207 (2023)
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-023-02306-03Machine Learning Models for Diabetes Management in Acute Care Using Electronic Medical Records: A Systematic Review
International Journal of Medical Informatics · 2022;162:104758
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104758The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Project Management: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Opportunities, Enablers, and Barriers
Buildings · 2025;15(7):1130
DOI: 10.3390/buildings15071130Validation of the Extended KDIGO Definition to Diagnose Acute Kidney Injury in a General Hospital Population Using the MIMIC-IV Dataset
Kidney International Reports · 2024;9(4):S261–S262 (WCN24-1193)
DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2024.02.537A Comparison Between a Random Forest Model and the Kidney Failure Risk Equation to Predict Progression to Kidney Failure
medRxiv · 2023
medRxiv PreprintToward a Learning Health Care System: A Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Conceptual Framework for Implementation of Clinical Analytics in a Digital Hospital
Applied Clinical Informatics · 2022;13(2):339–354
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1743243Get in Touch
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