Mechatronics engineer

Skills: interdisciplinary engineering, project leader, project scoping & strategy, IT management and planning, internal process co-ordination.

Before Creaholic: Spent five years at Boeing in Australia working on computing system for submarines.

Origin: Australian. Born in Sydney in a surfing region called Cronulla.

Hobbies: Family time, yoga, swimming, reading, travelling, lunching at nice restaurants with good friends, cooking, surfing the web, planning holidays,  listening to music especially blues, dancing wildly to 80s music.

Inspiration: Georg Balanchine - choreographer

Favourite writers: Amativ Ghosh, Tim Winton, Kurt Vonnegut, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett

Favourite places: Anywhere sunny, friendly with good food , friends and family. I love to travel. Have lived in lots of different places including, San Francisco CA, Ithaca NY and Belgium.

Languages: English, with passable German and enough French to travel.

Nobody knows: I chose to learn the clarinet because of the cat in Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’.