As Program Director – Decision Support Analytics, Sam leads a team that applies physics-based Modelling, Simulation, and Analysis (MSA), across descriptive, numerical, and analytical models. Models and simulations support the early design phase of systems by providing a tool to explore system behaviour under different scenarios or circumstances. It provides a data driven foundation to inform systems acquisition decision making for our clients.

Sam is a professional engineer with over a decade of experience working across a range of industries (Defence, Aerospace and Finance) in Australia, Germany, and the UK. He has successfully led multiple modelling and simulation projects including the safety analysis of the HIFIRE 5B hypersonics research mission and the development of the Digitally Aided Range Safety (DARS) artillery safety management system for the Australian Army. Sam has also worked as an intelligence analyst within the Australian Defence community and has significant early-stage Systems Engineering experience in the elicitation of capability needs and derivation of system requirements. Sam holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace) with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science (Theoretical Physics) from the University of Adelaide.