Head of Performance Media · Empire Amplify · Melbourne, Australia
Building scalable digital growth through technical marketing, data-driven strategy, and neuroinclusive leadership.
- 120% Shopping ROAS YoYadidas — APAC performance
- -40% CPA in 3 monthsMilwaukee Tool
- Up to 80% fewer LLM tokensXRON — open source
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adidas — APAC performance
Overhauled digital campaign operations, making adidas PAC the most profitable market in APAC and rolling out Google Demand Gen globally first.
120% Shopping ROAS YoY
Empire Amplify
GA4 Measurement Framework
A measurement framework turning analytics into decisions and growth.
Analytics + measurement strategy
EssenceMediacom
Milwaukee Tool
Reduced cost-per-acquisition across all digital activity by an average of 40%.
-40% CPA in 3 months
Empire Amplify
XRON — open source
A lossless data serialization format that reduces JSON LLM token consumption by up to 80%. TypeScript.
SourceUp to 80% fewer LLM tokens
EssenceMediacom
People First Bank — brand merger
Led the digital brand merger: value-based bidding, server-side GTM, new data architecture and first-party legal requirements.
VBB · sGTM · data architecture
Academic
Traditional vs Non-Traditional Marketing Communications
Conference paper with Ann T. Conway on target marketing in the events sector.
SourceTHRIC 2016 · DOI 10.21427/D7BV19
EssenceMediacom
GroupM × Amaze — A-Plus Inclusion
Connected GroupM agencies with Amaze to pilot the A-Plus Inclusion program and progress the Disability Action Plan.
Source16-point Disability Action Plan
Industry
Six Media Professionals on Disability
A media-industry panel exploring what disability means across agency roles.
Industry panel
Campaign Asia
Diversity Talks 2024 — speaker
Spoke at Diversity Talks 2024 on neurodiversity, mental wellbeing and evolving DE&I models.
SourceAPAC virtual summit
INvolve (Global)
INvolve Enable Role Model 2025
Named to the global Enable Role Model List for advancing workplace inclusion through lived experience.
Source1st Australian · 50 globally
Amaze
Amaze A+ Employer Program
Autistic Employee Advisory Group member; co-built neuroinclusive hiring frameworks adopted across the media industry.
SourceAdvisory board
EssenceMediacom
GroupM Disability Action Plan launch — panellist
Panellist at the GroupM ANZ Disability Action Plan launch (March 2024), sharing lived experience as part of the Amaze Autism partnership.
SourceEssenceMediacom
MFA NGEN Bootcamp — DE&I speaker
Spoke on a DE&I panel at the Media Federation of Australia’s NGEN Bootcamp (August 2023), sharing lived experience of neurodiversity in the media industry.
Personal
Communication as a science experiment
Turning communication into a system — observing, recording and mapping interaction, later mirrored in Transactional Analysis.
SourceTransactional Analysis
PR Power — Bang Digital
Built custom tracking processes and automated scripts to instantly deploy paid campaigns in Google Ads and Bing.
Reduced campaign launch time by 2 hours (44%)
Inceno (Startup)
Founded an Irish startup to authenticate restaurant reviews, pitching at major international competitions and securing seed funding.
€13,000 funding, WebSummit 2017 presenter
Dublin Institute of Technology (Education & Societies)
Served as Vice President of the DIT Societies Forum and Chairperson of the Fashion Society, orchestrating major events.
Vice President of DIT Societies Forum
adidas — Global PR Award
Conceptualized placing shoes outside Iranian embassies globally to represent women missing during protests for equal rights.
Global award for PR response
Frank Health Insurance
Achieved a 60% reduction in CPA by identifying poor user journeys and applying exclusion strategies to lower funnel campaigns.
60% reduction in CPA
World Vision Australia
Led end-to-end performance media strategies driving a 70% YoY reduction in acquisition costs.
70% reduction in CPA YoY
TEDxHa'pennyBridge
Organized and directed marketing for TEDxHa'pennyBridge, securing top-tier sponsorships and selling out within 24 hours.
Sold out in 24 hours. 937.5% ROI
Writing
All writing →Turning analytics into decisions: a GA4 measurement framework
Most GA4 properties collect everything and decide nothing. A measurement framework starts with the decisions and works backwards to the data.
Merging bank brands without losing digital momentum
A brand merger looks like an identity project. From a performance seat, it is a data problem — and momentum is the asset most at risk.
Why JSON wastes LLM tokens, and the lossless fix
JSON was designed for parsers, not per-token pricing. XRON restructures the same information to cost up to 80 per cent fewer tokens.
How adidas Pacific became APAC's most profitable digital market
Shopping ROAS up 120 per cent year on year, and the first market in the world to roll out Google Demand Gen. What actually moved the needle.
Champions of Change — Power List finalist
Recognised among Australia’s DE&I power list.
GroupM × Amaze: Driving Neurodiverse Inclusion
GroupM agencies progress their Disability Action Plan through partnership with Amaze.
My diagnosis was liberating
How I turned communication into a science experiment.
Changing Perspectives
A neurodiverse professional on understanding communication.
Career
Roles held · most recent first
- Jan 2026 – presentNowMelbourne, Australia
Head of Performance Media
Empire Amplify
Leads end-to-end performance media strategy across the agency: cross-channel optimisation against client KPIs, AI-driven workflows and automated agents for execution and reporting, and scalable operating frameworks for a growing client portfolio.
- Implemented AI-driven workflows and automated agents across campaign execution, data processing and reporting, cutting manual overhead
- Designed scalable operational frameworks for consistent output across a growing portfolio
- Aug 2022 – Nov 2025Melbourne, Australia
Implementation + Activation Manager — Performance
EssenceMediacom · GroupM / WPP
Led digital strategy and implementation across the performance portfolio; responsible for team output, training and upskilling across the wider GroupM network. Progressed through Digital Manager and Digital Marketplace Manager to Implementation + Activation Manager.
- adidas: made adidas PAC the most profitable APAC market from digital after taking over the team and rebuilding products, strategies and structures
- adidas: +120% Shopping ROAS YoY through segmentation, automated scripts and data-quality improvements
- adidas: first market globally to roll out Google Demand Gen and Enhanced Conversion Tracking (Global Test & Learn lead, AUNZ)
- Milwaukee Tool: −40% CPA across all digital activity within three months
- Frank Health Insurance: −60% CPA by excluding low-value user journeys from lower-funnel campaigns
- World Vision Australia: −70% CPA YoY
- FELD (Disney events): +22% ROI YoY
- PERSOL: set up all digital marketing platforms across 12 markets
- People First Bank: led the digital brand merger — value-based bidding, server-side GTM, new data architecture
- Led a team of five across ten clients; rolled out AUNZ-wide manager training on supporting neurodivergent staff
Clients adidas, People First Bank, Milwaukee Tool, CareSuper, DrinkWise, Dr Oetker, PERSOL, Deakin, Lavazza, FELD, Shell, World Vision Australia, Frank Health Insurance
- Oct 2019 – Jul 2022Perth, Australia
Senior Search & Data Executive
Bang Digital
Hybrid SEM, SEO and measurement role across 30+ agency clients in Australia, New Zealand and Canada; owned tracking and reporting infrastructure agency-wide.
- Managed ~$2.4M annual media budget across 21 brands
- Grew client Google Ads investment by an average of 17% (~$400K)
- −26% cost per conversion across all 21 managed accounts
- Cut average campaign launch time by 44% (2 hours) with automated tracking and deployment processes
- 4× private doctor bookings for a national private hospital; 2× leads for a national house-and-land developer
- 100% client retention across the tenure
- Jan – Jun 2019Perth, Australia
Digital Marketing Manager
Social Generation Marketing
Account manager for 22 clients across paid search, social and web; built the agency’s first CRM and reporting systems.
- Managed ~$340K budget at 6× ROAS
- Cut client reporting from 4 days to 1
- +26% paid clicks and +23% paid impressions across all accounts
- May 2016 – Mar 2018Dublin, Ireland
Founder & Managing Director
Inceno
Founded an Irish startup verifying restaurant reviews; secured €13,000 in funding, placed 2nd at ISEF and presented at Web Summit 2017.
Capabilities
Platforms & systems
Performance marketing · Growth marketing · Search engine marketing · SEO · Digital advertising · Measurement & analytics
- Paid media
- Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta Ads, SA360, TikTok Ads, Pinterest, Snapchat, Spotify
- Programmatic & ad ops
- DV360, CM360, Xaxis, IAS, DoubleVerify, Moat, Sizmek
- Measurement & analytics
- GA4, Adobe Analytics, Looker Studio, Datorama, Domo, Matomo
- Tagging & data
- Google Tag Manager, Server-side GTM, Tealium, Segment, Conversion APIs (Google, Meta)
- Automation & AI
- AI workflow agents, Automated bidding & scripts, Power Automate, Zapier
- CRM & CMS
- Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365, WordPress, Webflow
Community & advocacy
Volunteering · advisory · teaching
- Feb 2023 – present
Autistic Employee Advisory Group — A+ Employer Program
Amaze
Industry-wide neuroinclusion work; co-led the GroupM × Amaze partnership.
- 2021 – 2022
Marketing Director
TEDxKingsPark
Strategy and promotion across paid, earned and owned channels; trained volunteer marketers.
- 2016 – 2018
Organiser, Marketing Director & Licence Holder
TEDxHa'pennyBridge
Sold out within 24 hours; 937.5% marketing ROI; sponsorship cut costs by 64%.
- 2017 – 2018
Guest Lecturer — Marketing, Research Methods & Entrepreneurship
Dublin Institute of Technology
- 2017 – 2018
Advisory Board Member
Enactus Ireland
Education
MSc Marketing Practice
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
BSc Honors Event Management
Dublin Institute of Technology
Record
Posts held
- Jan 2026 – presentNow
Head of Performance Media
Empire Amplify
Melbourne, Australia
Leads end-to-end performance media strategy across the agency: cross-channel optimisation against client KPIs, AI-driven workflows and automated agents for execution and reporting, and scalable operating frameworks for a growing client portfolio.
- Aug 2022 – Nov 2025
Implementation + Activation Manager — Performance
EssenceMediacom · GroupM / WPP
Melbourne, Australia
Led digital strategy and implementation across the performance portfolio; responsible for team output, training and upskilling across the wider GroupM network. Progressed through Digital Manager and Digital Marketplace Manager to Implementation + Activation Manager.
- Oct 2019 – Jul 2022
Senior Search & Data Executive
Bang Digital
Perth, Australia
Hybrid SEM, SEO and measurement role across 30+ agency clients in Australia, New Zealand and Canada; owned tracking and reporting infrastructure agency-wide.
- Jan – Jun 2019
Digital Marketing Manager
Social Generation Marketing
Perth, Australia
Account manager for 22 clients across paid search, social and web; built the agency’s first CRM and reporting systems.
Recognition
Awards · pressAwards
- Enable Role Model (1st Australian) · INvolve (Global)
- Gold: Diverse-Inclusive Workplace of the Year (APAC) · Campaign Asia Pacific
- Finalist — Champions of Change Power List · AdNews
- Finalist — Emerging Leaders (Australia) · AdNews
- Honourable mention — global adidas innovation brief · EssenceMediacom
- 2nd in EU — Leaders of Tomorrow · Accenture & Inceno






