I design digital technologies curriculum and school-wide digital strategy — grounded in eighteen years in the classroom, and increasingly focused on how schools govern AI, emerging tech and digital learning systems rather than just teach them. Currently I am the LMS Coordinator and Digitech Teacher at Mazenod College. Before that, I built and ran a university Outreach Lab in Wellington, partnering with Spark NZ on IoT hardware, running professional development for technology teachers across the sector, and sitting alongside academics and industry to work out what’s actually worth teaching next — not just what’s fashionable.

I’m as interested in how a school governs and plans for emerging technology — AI, robotics, cybersecurity, XR — as I am in building the hardware and lessons themselves. Curriculum without a digital strategy behind it doesn’t survive contact with a real timetable, a real budget, or a real policy environment. I’ve sat on both sides of that problem: as the person writing the lesson, and as the person setting the direction the lessons need to serve.

In practice, that shows up as FRC robotics programs built from nothing, a working rover platform (XRover) and its curriculum, hands-on Microbit and cybersecurity training for teachers and adult learners, and conference sessions — PyCon, CS4HS, VINE Cybersecurity — where the audience is other educators and technologists, not students.

My background spans Australia, New Zealand and Mumbai, secondary classrooms and university outreach — which is less a scattered CV and more a consistent pattern: wherever the gap sits between “the technology exists” and “a school can actually run it well,” that’s the work I gravitate toward.

If you’re a school thinking through your digital and AI strategy, an industry partner looking for a delivery partner who understands both the classroom and the policy layer, or a teacher after curriculum that’s actually been tested — that’s what I build.