I started as a deckhand and dive tender at sixteen, learning leadership, precision, and improvisation from ultra-capable mariners, divers, and engineers working in maritime salvage. That early exposure to hands-on complexity, real problems, and very real consequences involving tons of copper and steel shaped how I approach every project.

Since then, I’ve led businesses, advised, and built projects across Asia, the Caribbean, Oceania, the EU, and the US—collaborating with governments, NGOs, startups, universities, and private industry. Whether advising on energy strategy, leading construction teams on-site, or structuring grant-winning climate infrastructure, I bring focus, camaraderie, innovation and improvement in challenging environments.

My experience includes:

• Leading the winning Horizon 2020 proposal for a Dutch net-zero greenhouse project

• Creating FAIR-aligned scientific data systems for global research field stations

• Building coastal marine infrastructure funded by the Inter-American Development Bank

• Structuring renewable energy and storage initiatives for fundability in the EU and island markets

• Advising the Estuary & Ocean Science Centre in San Francisco on project strategy and innovation

• Evaluating and re-grounding high-risk ocean platform concepts for survivability and real-world viability

• Turning around the Caribbean’s largest marine construction contractor with ahead-of-schedule delivery and record profitability

• Co-founding a telecom startup that cut project timelines from 4 days to 12 hours through process innovation

• Supporting field deployment strategy for early-stage desalination and aquaculture technologies

• Advising impact investors and tech founders on execution, due diligence, and field-readiness of climate infrastructure

I specialise in making difficult, complex projects succeed through field-tested leadership, cross-disciplinary thinking, and the ability to bridge strategy with execution. My work spans renewable energy, ocean-based infrastructure, decentralised systems, and resilient design—always focused on implementation in the real world.

I’m not a visitor’s hardhat consultant who drops in at the coalface for a morning and delivers a deck in the boardroom a week later—I stick around and deliver results.