1 Employment

1.1 Finisar - 2021-2023 - Staff Engineer

  • Managed LCOS SLM line, worth $1.5M p.a. including product development, customer management/collaboration, quality control
  • Wrote, Tested and Deployed automated unit testing software for SLM line, saving 400 hours of operator labour p.a.
  • Successfully launched and transferred to production Finisar’s 4th generation SLM
    • Design Input
    • Debugging and Rework
    • Training Operators
  • Developed a power cycling test solution to test thousands of units in order to verify the stability of High-Resolution OCM line for a large international telecommunications customer.
  • Consulted to U.S. firm, to deploy an experiment on site. No overruns or budget blowouts, despite final hour changes required from the customer.
  • Designed new instrument front panels for entire instrumentation department for Finisar to Coherent re-branding effort.
  • Delivered lecture to UQ on the transition from study to employment, represented Finisar at UNSW Electrical and Communication Engineering Society Employment Fair
  • Consulted to Finisar to assist with SLM line handover after they hired replacement

1.2 University of Sydney - 2019-2020, 2023-Current - Tutor

  • Tutored the first year physics class of 2020, adapted under pressure to covid guidelines, transitioning from in person, to online and hybrid tutorials
  • Demonstrated for Kickstart physics 2019-2020 and 2023-Current. Where I took in hosted high school students and ran them through experiments

1.3 Private Tutoring - 2017-Current

  • Taught dozens of students from year 5, all the way to university calculus. Multiple students who achieved >90 ATAR. Multiple special needs students

2 Education

2.1 PhD - Australian National University - Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre - 2023 - Ongoing

Thesis Title: Advanced wavefront sensing for Adaptive Optics applied to Free Space Optical Communication. Primary Supervisor: Dr Francis Bennet (ANU) Associate Supervisors: Tony Travoullion (ANU), Sarah Tedder (NASA)

2.2 Honours - University of Sydney - School of Physics - Quantum Computing Department - 2020

Honours Thesis Title: Adiabatically Protected Operations on Majorana Fermions for Topological Quantum Computing Supervisor: Dr Arne Grimsmo Mark: First Class Honours

2.3 Bachelor of Science - University of Sydney 2017-2019

Converted WAM: 82

3 Extracurricular

3.1 Sydney Photonics Industry Network

  • Volunteered with SPIN for the International day of light 2024

3.2 Hopsters Co-operative Brewery - Enmore

Active member in the running of Australia’s first (and as far as I know only), co-operatuve owned brewery. - Hosted several events, including science out reach events, Physics in the pub and other public lectures - Assisted in operations, managing events and logistics - Worked behind the bar.

3.3 University of Sydney Physics Society -President 2019

  • Successfully continued the PhySoc Industry Networking Night into its second year.
  • Maintained a professional network of corporate and academic relationships.
  • Successful sponsorship run to raise funds to continue operations of the society without cash injection from the University.
  • Dozens of successful events including Guest lectures from notable Science Communicators including Dr Karl and Physics Youtuber “Tibees”

4 Other Qualifications

  • Agile Practitioner - 2024
  • NSW RSA
  • WWCC

5 Skills / Proficiency

5.1 Software

5.1.1 Languages

  • LabVIEW
  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • C++ for Embedded Software (Novice)

5.1.2 Designs

  • OOP
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Machine Learning / Neural Networks

5.2 Skills

5.2.1 Technical Skills

  • Free Space Optics
  • Fibre Optics
  • CAD
    • 3D Printing
    • Aluminium Routing
  • Electronic Design (Novice)

5.2.2 Soft Skills

  • Project Management
  • Customer Relations

5.3 Areas of Research / Engineering Expertise

  • Adaptive Optics
  • LCoS SLM - Digital Holography and Beam Steering