How I got here
I trained as a doctor. Then I had children, moved countries, and by the time I was able to work again, going back to medicine wasn't realistic.
So I retrained. A Graduate Certificate in Data Science, then data analysis work, and from there into building the platforms underneath it — pipelines, data models, reporting. That's what I do now.
Along the way I kept running into financial data, and kept being unsure whether I was handling it correctly. So I went and got qualified in accounting. Not because it was required, but because I'd rather understand the books than guess at them.
What this means for you
Medicine taught me to work with numbers that have to be right, and to say clearly when something isn't certain. The accounting means your reporting matches your accounts, and I can prove it line by line. And I'll explain it in plain English to whoever has to sign it off.
The problem I solve
With one system, reporting is just reading off a screen. With six that don't talk to each other, it becomes an argument.
Each system was set up at a different time, for a different job, and each defines things slightly differently. So the same word means a different number depending on which one you open, and there's no single version everyone can rely on. Someone stitches the exports together, the total doesn't match the parts, and after that every meeting starts by debating the number instead of deciding what to do about it.
I fix the cause rather than the symptom: each measure gets defined once, across every system. Your revenue, your costs and your reporting then line up, because the whole business is finally being measured the same way.
What I've built
For a hotel group with multiple properties: one reporting platform that pulls every property's data in automatically, giving profit and loss per property, fair comparisons between them, and the reporting their lenders and investors ask for — all from a single model, checked against their accounting system.
For a City of Melbourne street audit programme (through Waste Audit & Consultancy Services): reporting that showed not just how much non-compliance there was, but exactly where it was concentrated.
And plenty of unglamorous work that matters — connecting Xero and QuickBooks to live reporting, cutting month-end down, and fixing spreadsheets that keep breaking.
How I work
I'm the founder and principal consultant, and I lead every engagement personally — you work directly with the person designing and building your platform, not with an account manager relaying messages. Based in Canberra, onsite here, and remote for clients across Australia, New Zealand and the US.
The fair question is what happens if I'm not around. So I build things you don't depend on me for: every change to your reporting is tracked and reversible, the design is written down rather than kept in my head, and your team gets trained to run it. Your reporting doesn't live on my laptop.