Before joining Digital Health CRC I worked…
In IBM’s Watson Health Business unit. I was based in Singapore, to be with the Asia Pacific team, with responsibility for our Japanese business development in Japan. I’ve been in ICT for most of my working life.
The key things I bring to my digital health role are…
Experience in solving big, audacious problems, agile development and the craft of supporting a team.
In a nutshell, my job is to…
Back the associated Program Managers, who in turn manage the DHCRC projects to a successful outcome.
The question I hear most often in my work is…
What do you do? I explain that I listen, think and then act.
My favourite bit of technology is…
My Hammerhead K2 [bike] GPS. (Google it!)
The top three things on my to-do list today are…
Progressing our significant projects, our Salesforce “scrub” and then collating the raft of HMS projects we are involved in.
The area of health / tech / that most interests me is…
Coming from IBM, where Augmented Intelligence was arguably first highlighted thru Watson’s involvement in Jeopardy, it has to be AI. But that’s too broad, right? If the leading AI vendors can support Cancer Care Transformation, I believe the rest of healthcare will benefit.
I learned this interesting thing through my work last week…
That I am too new to truly understand, yes, even after 3 weeks, the dhCRC jargon.
On the way to work, I like to…
Listen to tech stories on Blinkist.
My favourite place is…
Japan; and while I have jokingly said, if I never catch another plane it will be too soon, I will return.
My favourite subject at school was…
English Literature. As a science student, it was an escape.
Outside work, you’ll often find me…
On my bike, somewhere in the Adelaide Hills, Sydney or country Victoria.
Last weekend I joined friends on the JDRF One Ride cycle challenge to raise funds for Type One Diabetes research. I rode with them for the last two days from Bairnsdale back to Melbourne, a little under 400km. We raised over $80k, and for me the highlight was being cheered into the town of Stratford by the local kids.
The last great series I watched was…
“I Diavlo”
Describe yourself in three words
I am me.
The celebrity I most resemble is …
At different and much earlier times in my life I’ve been told I looked like Steve McQueen, Prince, Lou Reed and Oliver Reed. Our CEO says I look like the singer our of Shed Seven, a band I had to look up [and I don’t]. Nowadays I tend to just look like me.
If you came for lunch at my place I would cook…
Red bean burritos.
Five years from now…
It is said that hope is not a strategy, so in five years from now, I will not hope to have achieved, I will continue to be happy.
