~1995
Westmead Hospital, Sydney · biomedical engineer (early career)
Cardiac pacemaker PID controller — continuous closed-loop error correction with stability guarantees under noisy biological sensing.
Athena's closed-loop trust feedback architecture (Sensor → Controller → Actuator → Setpoint); SignalRank reliability scoring.
Early career
Racal Defence · VXI ATE engineering
Multi-vendor instrument orchestration via standard interfaces across heterogeneous test equipment.
Athena resource registry + dispatch map + multi-provider abstraction (Claim 359 — the seven-class resource taxonomy).
1999
Sydney · GLOMES patent filed
Distributed sensors on electricity distribution networks correlated against network topology produce emergent fault-location intelligence no individual sensor could generate.
Athena trust graph topology; sentinel correlation across L0 packets.
2000
Stanford University · invention document
System for capturing human stories and matching complementary people globally — written sixteen years before the technology existed to do it well.
FolioAI soul reflection coaching product; the human-question-first design principle of the whole stack.
Early-mid career
Gridsense · TSX-V public company (EVP, investor)
Public company governance + standardised financial reporting telemetry across HNW, VC, strategic, and public-market investor types — each with distinct constitutional requirements.
VAT (Verified Action Token) standardised proof envelope; genome architecture for organisation-type-specific constitutional constraints.
2005
Mid-career · first Australian smart-metering deployment (Victoria mandate)
Industrial-scale application of COPS (RFC 2748, IETF January 2000) policy decision/enforcement architecture to ~1 million electricity meters.
L0 Protocol PDP/PEP/PIB structure — brain daemon (PDP), task runner (PEP), trust graph + skill registry (PIB).
Mid-career
WiMAX / HomePlug · fragmentation engineering
IP packet fragmentation: decompose payload, dispatch fragments in parallel, reassemble at destination.
Athena frag/defrag pipeline (Claims 488–492) — direct architectural precursor at a different altitude.
Late career
nbnco · Australian telecommunications carrier licence
Telco compliance: standardised CDR metadata retention separate from payload, with tiered access regime regulated by warrant level.
L0 metadata envelope (Claims 449–455); sentinel packet taxonomy; dual-layer payload+envelope structure.
Recent
NNNCo · LoRaWAN IoT (acquired)
Hardware-rooted device authentication via 128-bit keys + challenge-response over public IoT protocols.
VAC hardware trust anchor; IoT-class device authentication; trust chain human → agent → device.
Feb–Mar 2026
Dual patent foundation · VAC + Athena base provisionals filed
VAC Provisional (AU 2026901425, 21 February — 112 claims: biometric identity, social trust graph, reputation tokens, biometrically-gated agent authorization) + Athena Provisional (AU 2026901730, 3 March — 65 claims: self-improving methodology, multi-LLM trust ranking, reasoning path indexing, agent team orchestration).
IP foundation for the entire VAC + Athena stack, locked pre-NIST-standards-conversation positioning.
March 2026
Protocol synthesis · the convergence moment
Three independent insights converged within weeks: a plausible-but-wrong single-model answer to a dermatologist's drug-interaction question drove frag/defrag invention; "which model for which domain?" drove SignalRank 3D scoring (composite trust + reliability + independence); recognising "this is COPS applied to AI" drove the L0 Protocol Specification — a 903-line north star combining COPS RFC 2748, COPS-PR, RFC 3483, XACML, Bitcoin, and MapReduce.
The synthesis moment where thirty years of engineering experience converged into a complete protocol stack. Every prior milestone in this timeline contributed an architectural primitive that landed here.
30 April 2026
Dual filing event · IP Australia · VAC Mega Supp #7 + Athena Supp #8
VAC Mega Supplementary 7 (AU 2026904139 — 129 claims 317–445: Action Hash, Sycophancy Detection, deadline framework) and Athena Supplementary 8 (AU 2026904140 — 23 claims C511–C533: Skill Registry Protocol foundation, robot team coordination, typed ground truth as L0 resource, bipolar signal taxonomy).
+152 claims of priority date secured. Cumulative Violet Shores patent portfolio: ~1028+ claims across 16 filings.