I grew up just north of Auckland, New Zealand, and studied at The University of Auckland in the Engineering Science Department and did Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) for my Ph.D. At this time I was involved in some crew scheduling at Air New Zealand. In August 1996 I moved to Gothenburg, and started working at Carmen. I really enjoy cycling and in summer 2000, I cycled down to Malmö and then over the Öresund Link to Copenhagen. While living in Sweden I've been introduced to innebandy (indoor hockey). I'm not very good at it, but I really enjoy it!

Today I am responsible for the optimization related development of the pairing product, as well as having a co-ordinating role for optimization in general. This involves analysis of client requirements, tracking market and academic developments, and design and implementation of new functionality. This work is shared with a small team of optimization developers, whom I also manage. In order to learn about new requirements and developments, we visit clients at their workplace, and attend various conferences.

Why Carmen?
When I was considering starting work at Carmen I wanted two things, the opportunity to travel, and the opportunity to apply operations research (OR) techniques to real world problems. Carmen met, and has exceeded, both requirements. The main part of my work has been to develop and apply the latest OR techniques to solving pairing problems. While this took some time and effort to develop, the results of this are now in production at our client installations. It is very satisfying to see your work used to solve theoretical problems that occur in reality.