About

I build systems that stand on their own: software, hardware, and the practice that decides what they are for. The work runs from an Android app that puts a pause in front of a habit, through household and business infrastructure that answers to its owner, to a workshop about the beliefs people have stopped noticing they hold. The scale changes and the question underneath stays the same: who holds the authority here, and does the thing I am building hand it back or take it away.

I build things that work on their own and belong to whoever is using them. That runs from a phone app that gives you a moment before a habit takes over, through computer setups for homes, community groups and businesses that answer to their owners. At the other end sits a workshop about the rules people live by and have stopped noticing. The size changes and the question underneath stays the same: who is in charge here, and does this thing hand that back or take it away.

I hold a BA in International Business Management, specialising in human resources, personal development and multicultural work environments. I spent a decade abroad, most of it in Germany, and came home to New Zealand in late 2025. Before that I built and ran a fifty-member volunteer organisation from a standing start — recruitment, training, ranks, the whole operating system a group needs to run on more than goodwill. I grew up around tools, engines, animals and dirt, and I still work with my hands as readily as with a terminal.

I have a business degree, specialising in how people are hired, developed and managed across cultures. I lived overseas for about ten years, mostly in Germany, and came home to New Zealand at the end of 2025. Before that I started and ran a volunteer organisation of fifty people from scratch, including how members were recruited, trained and organised. I grew up around tools, engines, animals and dirt, and I am still as comfortable with my hands as with a computer.

Sovereignty is the through-line, and it holds at every scale. I build my own stack, host my own infrastructure, and set up the same for the people, groups and businesses I work with, because a system you rent is a system somebody else can change while you sleep. A community that owns its own tools governs itself; one that borrows them governs at somebody else's pleasure.

The through-line is ownership, and it works the same at every size. I run my own equipment and my own systems, and I set up the same for the people, groups and businesses I work with, because anything you rent can be changed by somebody else while you sleep. A group that owns its own tools runs itself; one that borrows them runs on somebody else's terms.

Responsibility scales with power; rights don't scale at all — the strong carry more of the weight precisely because they can.

Alongside the building there is a practice, and it is an old one: attention, deliberate use of language, and the discipline of choosing what gets fed into a mind. It informs the workshop directly, it is where the craft pieces come from, and it is the reason the mentoring has a gate on it. I name it as a source, and I teach the parts that travel.

Alongside the building there is a practice, and it is an old one: paying attention, using language deliberately, and being careful about what you let into your own head. It shapes the workshop, it is where the handmade pieces come from, and it is why the mentoring has a filter on it. I name it as a source and teach the parts that travel.

I get to know a person before I take their work on, and either of us may decide against it. That is the method: what I make is shaped by what I know of the person receiving it, so the knowing has to come first. It also means what a thing costs varies with who is receiving it, from koha through to a named rate I will state plainly and hold.

I get to know someone before taking their work on, and either of us can decide against it. That is the method: what I make is shaped by what I know about the person it is for, so the knowing comes first. It also means the price varies with who is receiving it, from a gift through to a set rate I will name plainly and stick to.