Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Water
Bringing biodiversity back to the Australian landscape at scale
The Platform for Land and Nature Repair (PLANR) empowers landholders across Australia with the information they need to understand, plan, and implement nature protection and restoration projects on their land - a fundamental barrier to participation in environmental markets.
♥️ I'm proud of...
- Co-founding and running a profitable 2m/y business
- Leading product design and research for the platform's evolution from pilot program to flagship product for the Department in the Nature Repair Market
- Leading the service design initiative for method and science development across the entire department
- Fundamentally changing the sector's approach to software design by setting a standard of usability not seen in this sector until PLANR
- Scaling a product that began with tens of users and seeing exponential growth at the time of writing
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Bringing biodiversity back to the Australian landscape at scale
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Fractional Head of Design services to give Good Human a path to design team stability and growth
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Visualising and reporting on Australian deforestation for the WWF
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Always was, always will be
I have lived and worked my whole life on Gadigal (Sydney) and Wurundjeri (Melbourne) land, in Australia. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I do my work and I pay my respects to elders past & present. I acknowledge the sorrow of the stolen generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I support the Uluru Statement of the Heart and I also recognise the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Through my work, I aim to help as much as I can to empower and help them thrive.
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