Jon is an expert in interdisciplinary knowledge application. Beginning his career in academic research he synthesized knowledge from electrohydrodynamics, high precision instrumentation, materials science and data science to unravel fundamental properties of the electrospinning nanofabrication process. He followed this by giving back to the community by leading the STEM promotion initiative for Engineering in Victoria for two years before returning to academia to lecture on Mobile Communications Networking. His next leap was to work with partners of NBN to help solve the challenging problem of designing a cost effective network by reusing existing infrastructure. Finally he has recently landed in the data science space, delivering solutions relating to predictive asset maintenance and unsupervised data segmentation. Each step in his career he has been able to draw knowledge and expertise from prior disciplines and apply them in relevant ways. This has allowed him to find creative and novel solutions to existing and sometimes intractable problems.