Work

My work spans technical, organisational, and cultural systems. While the contexts differ, from manufacturing floors to boardrooms to temporary cultural infrastructures, the underlying questions are often the same: how systems are designed, how they scale, and how people operate within them over time.

The sections below outline the main domains I have worked in, with selected examples rather than exhaustive histories.

Advanced manufacturing and industrial systems

I have worked extensively in advanced manufacturing, with a particular focus on large-scale metal additive manufacturing and its transition from research environments into industrial deployment. This has included process development, system design, industrialisation, and engagement with end users operating in highly regulated and capital-intensive sectors, where reliability, certification, and delivery timelines materially affect business viability.

My experience spans the full arc from early-stage experimentation through to commercial systems, including interaction with supply chains, certification bodies, and customers operating at scale. Much of this work sits at the boundary between engineering feasibility and operational reliability.

Strategy, governance, and organisational scale

Alongside technical work, I have been involved in strategic and governance-oriented roles, particularly in contexts where technology, capital, and long time horizons intersect. This has included executive leadership, advisory roles, and board-level engagement across both industrial and entrepreneurial settings.

The focus of this work is less on strategy as abstraction and more on how decisions are made in practice: how organisations structure incentives, manage risk, and retain coherence as they grow. I am particularly interested in situations where uncertainty is structural rather than temporary, and where learning must be built into the organisation itself.

Culture, festivals, and creative systems

In parallel with industrial and strategic work, I am involved in cultural and creative projects, including music and festival production. These environments operate with different constraints — tighter timelines, softer hierarchies, and more explicit emotional goals — yet they surface many of the same systemic challenges found in formal organisations.

Working in these contexts has sharpened my understanding of coordination, trust, identity, and experience design. They offer a useful counterpoint to industrial systems, and often make visible dynamics that remain implicit elsewhere.

Practice and method

Across these domains, I maintain an active practice of yoga, which I also teach. This practice informs how I think about discipline, attention, and sustainability — not only at an individual level, but also in how teams and organisations operate over time.

Rather than a separate activity, it functions as a method: a way of testing ideas about structure and freedom, effort and recovery, consistency and adaptation.