Oct 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Founding member and Director of the Association of Product Professionals.
• I lead the strategy, discovery and development for the product portfolio. Including GTM, marketing and day-to-day operations.

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs · Based in Sydney Australia. Work with clients globally 🌎

• I help Product Managers, Product Leaders and founders do product better.
• Get in touch if you're:
• Wanting help to become more product-led
• Want an outside review/assessment on your current product capabilities
• Looking for internal coaching/training for your product teams
• Need help to scale through building repeatable product processes, instilling best practices, assisting with hiring and growing their product teams

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019 · 7 mos

Jan 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Sydney Area

• Working with the c-suite, business and product leaders, and their teams to help pivot Macquarie's Banking division to a leading digital bank.
• Helped the banking division move from a project operating model to a product centric one
• Established and led a Product Community of Practice with over 100 product managers
• Implemented OKRs, outcome thinking and 'bets' into their ways of working
• Introduced hypothesis driven development and product discovery

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Partnered with the Chief Digital Officer and working side-by-side the Head of Group Product to transform the ABC to a digital first, Product-Led company in response to the 20% YoY decline in broadcast consumption.
• Defined the new Digital Product Portfolio Strategy
• Re-organised the organisation into 24 end-to-end product teams, bringing people editors, content makers etc together
• Established 4 product groups
• Established a Product practice from the ground up, including hiring a Head of Group Product, a team of Group Product Managers, Product Managers, Product Designers and Product Coaches to assist with capability uplift
• Formed a strategic Product Discovery Team that looked into moonshot bets.
• As part of leading the shift to products. I worked directly on their News Product Group as an avenue to lead-by-example and demonstrate what 'good' looks like to the business.
• During my time leading the News Product Portfolio I:
• Brought their brand new ABC Life product to market
• Repositioned their mobile app to achieve an increase in daily active users by 2%

Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sydney, Australia

• ustwo is an industry leading product company with the mission to “build products which make a meaningful impact in the world.”
• Their clients include the likes of Netflix, AirBnB and Google.
• Whilst at ustwo I was a Product Manager and Enterprise Coach. I worked with clients such as Caltex, ABC, Visa, amongst others - partnering with CPOs, GM or Head of Product levels, I played a key leadership role on the client side.
• Most notably I spent most of my time at ABC partnering with their Chief Digital Officer and Head of Group Product to transform the ABC to a Product-Led company in response to the 20% YoY decline in broadcast consumption.
• Whilst at ABC I worked directly on their news Product Portfolio to bring their new ABC Life product to market and to reposition their mobile app to achieve an increase in daily active users by 2%.
• During my time at ustwo:
• I brought 3 Greenfield 0-1 product to market
• Sunsetted products
• I repositioning and pivoted a mature product
• Playing interim product leadership roles as both Head of Product and Group PM for clients
• and was involved in half a dozen discovery efforts to validate early idea concepts
• I also helped grow the Sydney studio from 20 people to a peak of 50 employees.
• ustwo had a relatively small presence here in Sydney, this meant that my role was versatile like with most startups I wore many hats. From Product Manager, Head of Product, Delivery Lead, People Manager, Business Development and Client Relationship Manager.

Oct 2017 – Mar 2018 · 5 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Through ustwo I led a 6 month engagement with Caltex to build out their digital product capability and establish their digital innovation lab.
• Grew from 5 people to 5x product teams
• Establish an innovation lab, called C-Lab in the Sydney Startup Hub
• launched of two greenfield products, their FuelPay app which allows users to pay for fuel with their phones without having to leave their car, as well as the Foodary app which allows for preorder of drinks and food at selected foodary sites.
• Launched a Beta for number plate recognition product as a bet to assess feasibility of a completely automated fuel payment experience utilising number plate recognition software.

Jan 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• First role at AMP was to lead defining and brining a greenfield innovative product called Bett3r. A smart banking app it helps you achieve your financial goals by helping you understand your finances and automatically move money around three bank accounts for Pay, Spend and Save. One amazing, albeit unintended, outcome was that it was so successful at helping its users live within their means that some reported cancelling their credit cards after ~2-3months of use.
• After successfully shipping the greenfield product i was moved along with it, into the digital department where I was the coach for the Director of Digital and Head of Digital Product and help coach across the 8x cross-functional teams.
• I also spend time coaching the c-suite and director level, partnering with the Chief Information Officer to coach them on agile and Human Centred Design. The goal was to better equip the leaders with how they might be able to display behaviours that will promote a culture that is more conducive to an innovative and adaptive culture. This was based in everyday micro-habits that they could do to lead by example and cultivate cultural change.

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos

May 2015 – Dec 2015 · 7 mos · Sydney, Australia

Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 · 11 mos

• Learning what it takes to be a leader in the Australian Defence Force.

Jan 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sydney, Australia

Jan 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Sydney Area

• Software Engineer at Macquarie Group and briefly at algorithmic trading company IMC Pacific before joining the Australian Army.