He is currently the Principal Service Designer at the Digital, Design and Innovation branch at the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

He has spent the last decade operating at the intersection of design and international development focusing on climate technologies, entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystems, and human and environmental security.

Prior to his current role, he was the inaugural Managing Director of CivVic Labs at LaunchVic, the Victorian Government's startup agency.He was also the Lead Design Specialist in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit at the World Bank and has been engaged as a strategic designer by the White House during the Obama Administration, various UN agencies, the US Dept of Defense, international NGOs and served as an advisor to the Australian Government’s Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

As an educator he has taught at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design in New York. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.