The Team

Malcolm Lambert - Managing Director and Project Manager

Malcolm is an atmospheric physicist by trade and, whilst building a house in Tasmania, he conceived the idea of using computational power to perform the difficult 3D geometric manipulations required to build with irregular pieces of rock. Malcolm has acted as the on-site project manager for several atmospheric and geophysical monitoring experiments in remote locations such as Macquarie Island and Antarctica. He has a set of skills in the areas of physics, project management, construction, computer programming and electronic and optical instrumentation. Malcolm is the inventor of Rocksolver and the Managing Director of Intresto.

Peter Douglas - Non-executive director

Peter is a physicist by trade and brings to the team over 25 years of experience in specialty sales, marketing and business management. He is a highly experienced international business executive and has a proven track record in the specialty area of scientific equipment and the highly competitive healthcare industry. Having successfully managed and subsequently grew divisions in Australian companies Quentron, Laserex, and Medicon, Peter eventually started his own company Douglas Scientific in 1989. A short time later Douglas Scientific and the Netherlands based medical company, Nucletron B.V, embarked on a joint venture in Australia. Peter has been Managing Director of Nucletron Pty. Ltd. since its inception in 1991, and has steered it’s growth to a company with an annual turnover in excess of $16M.

Neale Anderson - Non-executive director

Neale is a Partner and Director in the Advisory team Catalise Pty Ltd. Neale has over 23 years in line, interim and advisory roles in Australia, Europe and the Caribbean, with experience in start ups, turnarounds and implementation of business strategy. He is a people and organisation oriented senior executive with experience in logistics, financial services, airlines, insurance and oil.

Dr Paul Kennedy - Software Engineer
Paul is a specialist in software development, artificial intelligence and data mining. He teaches data mining, machine learning and software engineering at a major Sydney-based university. As a specialist in software engineering and artificial intelligence Paul has particular skills in the use of advanced search and optimisation algorithms and in the visualisation of complex information. Paul is using his specialist skills to design and develop the Rocksolver software required to fit together a collection of irregular polyhedra into a regular shape.

David Sheil - Business advisor

David has over 45 years hands on business experience in primary and secondary industry, both in Australia and overseas. He has an extensive network of key business and Government contacts, and knows how to grow a new opportunity to achieve its full potential.

       Todd Farrell - Software engineer

       Todd is a generalist software developer with a background in enterprise web applications (financial services industry).  Over the past ten years, he has played various roles from co-founder, software developer and technical lead to scrum master, agile coach and freelance consultant.

       Emeritus Professor Grant Steven - Non-executive director

       Grant is a specialist in the areas of computational mechanics and finite element analysis and is a director in the company Strand7 Pty Ltd which develops engineering analysis software.

Supporting Roles

Rick Welykochy - Software Engineer
Rick is an analyst programmer specialising in scientific and network computer applications. His experiences range from the pure geek as a system administrator to the corporate director running an ISP. He brought years of language, database, graphics and management expertise into play to create the first prototype packing algorithms for the RockSolver application.

Dr Tom Osborn - Software and Marketing Consultant
Tom has been the head of a number of R&D groups at the University of Technology Sydney and has a particular interest in machine learning and statistical modeling as tools for identifying new market opportunities resulting from innovation. He has a good understanding of both the technical aspects of the challenges involved in developing the Rocksolver software and ways in which market opportunities can be identified and exploited. He is applying his skills to the Rocksolver project as an advisor and consultant.

Alan Murray - Physicist
Alan is a skilled scientific programmer, particularly in the areas of applied mathematics, finite element analysis and the visualisation of computer generated 3D objects. Alan is a lecturer in Games Programming at QANTM College in Sydney and has applied his skills to the Rocksolver project by programming much of the virtual building site needed to test rock-fitting algorithms.