Experience & projects.
Three pieces of work that between them cover the whole stack — a deployed analytics system, published forecasting research with a live simulator, and the hardware underneath both.
01 / Project
Derwent Bridge — Advanced Power Analytics
A six-module web system for a remote Tasmanian site: real-time acquisition through to optimal microgrid design, running end to end.
- Live irradiance and wind acquisition for the site, converted to PV and wind output and written to a time-series store one row per minute, with a simulator taking over if the feed drops
- Short-term forecasting by a recurrent network trained in seconds on the last week of hourly data and rolled forward a day ahead, for PV, wind and demand
- Long-term outlook from five years of daily climate history fitted with trend and harmonic regression, producing a two-year forecast aggregated to seasons
- Cost–benefit analysis — LCOE, NPV, payback and CO₂ for the PV and wind plants
- Ten-year design comparison of hybrid-grid, fully renewable and grid-only options
02 / Research
TCSA — Temporal Context Self-Attention for solar forecasting
A published attention mechanism for day-ahead solar generation forecasting, evaluated across recurrent and transformer architectures — with an interactive simulator that replays every prediction against measured output.
- Temporal Context Self-Attention evaluated against baseline and multi-head self-attention variants of LSTM, GRU and Transformer models
- Three co-located solar plants and a weather station, with a full data-engineering pipeline from raw records to model-ready series
- An interactive analytical dashboard that steps through a 144-hour test horizon hour by hour, showing prediction against actual and cumulative MAE, RMSE and R² as they evolve
- Every reported figure traceable to the notebook that produced it
03 / Hardware
PCB & embedded design
The instrumentation layer. When the measurement a model needs does not exist on site, we design the board that produces it.
- Schematic capture, PCB layout and design for manufacture and assembly
- Power and signal integrity, protection and isolation for measurement in electrically noisy plant
- Microcontroller firmware, sensor integration and telemetry
- Secure MQTT-over-TLS uplink, with local control of relays, PLCs, inverters and battery management systems
- Edge processing so the device keeps working when the link does not
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