My Resume
Every engagement starts with the question you’re trying to answer. From there, I help you work out what evidence you need, whether your approach will deliver it, and how to get there simply and defensibly. Most work begins with a free 30-minute conversation, after which we can decide whether a short review, a strategy or ongoing support makes most sense. Ways to engage: a fixed-fee review, a fixed-fee strategy, day-rate advisory, or a fractional retainer. When a project needs extra depth, I bring in specialists from my network.
The examples on this page are from roles I held before founding EO Pixel Analytics. The work was delivered for and with those organisations and their teams; I describe my own contribution to it.
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An independent view on a proposal, methodology, program or technology approach. Is it appropriate, is it necessary, what evidence is missing, and what would be defensible? Typical work: proposal and methodology reviews; technical reviews of programs against policy objectives; monitoring program reviews; technology and provider assessments; technical due diligence for investors in EO and spatial ventures.
Previous work (Landgate): independent technical advice for Spatial WA.
The challenge: Spatial WA is Landgate’s $140M, 10-year whole-of-government program to build a digital twin of Western Australia, developed with more than 30 agencies. Before committing to a core platform, government wanted independent technical advice on the procurement, on how the platform would work within existing government IT, and on whether its building data was good enough to support it.
My role: As Spatial Architect, I joined at the procurement stage as an independent adviser to government. I provided independent technical advice during procurement on how well proposed solutions fitted the program’s needs. I worked with CIOs and IT staff across several departments, mostly within Landgate, which led the program, and with incumbent IT service providers to map a pathway for integrating Spatial WA into existing services, including seamless sign-in for government users. I also helped design the proof of concept for deployment.
Building data: 3D buildings are an essential input to Spatial WA, but it wasn’t clear existing datasets met the program’s needs. I scoped, contracted and managed, from start to finish, a project with an external provider to test whether aerial photogrammetry or lidar gave the best elevation data for generating 3D building models, along with factors such as level of detail (LOD).
The result: Government had independent technical advice, a clear integration pathway, and evidence on the best way to produce its 3D building data.
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Designing the evidence before choosing the technology. Typical work: monitoring design and evidence frameworks; remote-sensing strategy and feasibility assessment; ecological evidence frameworks and ground validation; integrating field data with Earth observation.
Previous work (FrontierSI): ENVestigator, satellite monitoring for mining regions.
The challenge: Groundwater-dependent vegetation in the Pilbara is sensitive to mining, but monitoring relied on infrequent, costly field surveys. FrontierSI’s ENVestigator toolkit, already recognised with a 2024 WA Geospatial Excellence Award, showed that satellite monitoring could help. It now needed to move from a research tool to an operational product.
My role: As Resources Sector Lead at FrontierSI, I helped take ENVestigator from research towards an operational product. I project-managed the earlier ENVestigator project, then led the setup of ENVestigator Next Generation with the FrontierSI team: I worked with the major mining partners to agree the scope and drafted the work packages, including the scientific improvements needed and the move to a cloud-based platform. I contracted a business analyst to develop user journeys for the work packages, and led the product business case.
The result: ENVestigator Next Generation, extending the toolkit to regional-scale, cloud-based monitoring with BHP, Rio Tinto, Fortescue and Mineral Resources, with WA’s environmental regulator (DWER) advising, through to 2028.
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For organisations with scientists, developers or providers who need the pieces connected. Typical work: problem definition and requirements; connecting science, data and technology teams; identifying unnecessary complexity; translating between technical teams, regulators and decision-makers.
Previous work (Digital Agriculture Services): from CSIRO research to a commercial cropping platform.
The challenge: CSIRO’s Graincast combined satellite data, soil maps and crop modelling to identify crops and forecast yields. When Digital Agriculture Services (DAS) licensed the technology in 2020, research algorithms had to become a reliable commercial platform for lenders, insurers and agribusiness.
My role: At DAS, I designed the platform’s technical architecture and led the science translation, working closely with CSIRO’s scientists to carry their crop type and yield methods into a production system. I managed the external development team at NGIS who built the platform, and worked with clients to turn their needs into product requirements.
The result: The DAS Cropping Hub, which maps crop types across about 1.7 million paddocks in Australia and applies CSIRO’s yield prediction algorithm.
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Helping space and EO programs make sure their data answers real questions. Typical work: EO data quality, calibration and validation, and fitness for purpose; user needs and requirements for EO products; program and mission advice for government and industry; connecting EO capability to environmental applications.
Previous work: Continuity of Earth Observation Data for Australia: Risks (2024). Prepared by Symbios, The University of Queensland and Earth Observation Australia, requested by Geoscience Australia.
The question: All of Australia’s satellite Earth observation data comes from foreign sources, mostly without binding supply agreements. How exposed is Australia if that supply changes?
My role: I co-led the risk assessment and stakeholder interviews, was a major contributor to writing the report, including drafting many of the risks, and was part of the project management team.
The approach: A national risk assessment following AS ISO 31000:2018, drawing on about 140 survey responses and 32 interviews across government, research and industry.
What it found: 171 government programs rely on satellite EO, 93% with medium-to-high dependency. Of 39 risks identified, six were rated very high.
Why it matters: It gave government a structured, evidence-based picture of EO supply risk, as a baseline for tracking change over time.
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Senior judgement when you need it, without hiring another full-time role.
Some organisations don’t need a full project. They need an experienced person in the room while decisions are being made. I join your team on a part-time basis to help shape priorities, test technical approaches, guide providers and keep a program focused on the question it’s meant to answer.
This suits organisations that are setting up or reshaping an environmental, spatial or Earth observation program; managing several technical providers; or needing senior input for longer than a single review.
A day a week for a set period
A monthly advisory retainer
An independent adviser to a program or board
Part-time program or project leadership, with a clear scope and authority to make decisions
Previous work (FrontierSI): reshaping an environmental Digital Twin Victoria project (2025).
The challenge: A SmartSat CRC-funded project for Victoria’s Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability needed reshaping to meet changing needs.
My role: I reshaped the project concept, working across government (the Commissioner, DEECA and Parks Victoria) to understand complex needs, and advised FrontierSI’s delivery team on how to build something that would meet them. I designed the forest change component and how to deliver it.
The result: New environmental layers in Digital Twin Victoria showing change over time: forest extent by region, and AI-processed deer camera sightings mapped site by site, delivered with Indicium Dynamics on Terria’s platform.