Dec 2025 – Present · 3 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 · 9 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

• Leonardo.ai are at the forefront of developing an AI-powered Art Generator designed to democratise the creative process for content creators at every level, from budding artists to seasoned designers.
• Having recently been acquired by Canva, I've had the opportunity to move over on a secondment, to build out the engineering team. Hiring >40 people in 9 months.

Feb 2018 – Jul 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Coordination of the bi-monthly meetup tackling Diversity & Inclusion within technology environments and more broadly.
• Based on the foundational work by malechampionsofchange.com with the express purpose to provide actionable techniques and ways to improve your existing environment.
• Sign up, all welcome. See you at the next event.

Nov 2015 – Aug 2025 · 9 yrs 9 mos · Sydney

• Canva are on track to change the way the world designs.
• With millions of users showing #canvalove every day and a product roadmap only limited to the amount of brilliant, smart and engaging people we can hire. Now is the time to join Canva.
• Looking after product and engineering hiring from ~50 people to >5k

Jul 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Atlassian is an Australian Enterprise Software Development Company & one of the fastest growing technology businesses in the world. With 35,000 customers (including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe, NASA & the United Nations) & offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Austin & Amsterdam.
• Products Offerings you may know and love:
• JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, JIRA Agile
• Confluence, HipChat
• Bitbucket, Stash, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible
• Key hiring across Design, Front End Dev, QA and IX

Sep 2011 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Consulting to an Australia wide work force providing Digital Media and IT Centric recruitment consulting services. Working across end client internal digital teams through to boutique digital agencies on a variety of engagements.
• Along with the Recruitment side, I have extensive grounding and exposure to Tech Start-up, VC and Angel investors and new technology coming to market.
• As a Consultant, I'm responsible for establishing and growing relationships with key clients within End Client, Corporate and Agency Environments, as well as carrying out proactive recruitment activities to attract talented IT professionals. For both Permanent and Contract requirements across end client internal digital teams through to boutique digital agencies on a variety of engagements.
• As a Consultant at Finite, my primary responsibilities are:
• Advertising, interviewing candidates, giving resume/interview presentation and career advice throughout the selection process
• Prepare resumes and correspondence for suitable applicants to forward to employers
• Managing job offer process and negotiating salary packages
• Maintaining market and commercial awareness through research/networking
• Specialising in the following areas:
• User Experience Design / Architect, UX UI
• User Centred Design UCD - Information Architecture IA
• Senior Search appointments (CIO/CTO, Technical Director, Director of Engineering, Development Manager)
• Digital Media content production and Project/Program Management
• Development and managing go-to market mobile and online solutions
• IT Resource Planning and project Consulting
• Staffing and Selection
• Development specialisations including:
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), HTML - HTML5 & CSS - CSS3, Java, JavaScript (JS), Ajax, JSON, jQuery, XML .NET, & PHP
• Mobile Development streams including iOS, Android, Objective C