ABOUT MOVUS
(MOVing indUStry)
Brad Parsons
CEO & Founder
The CEO and Founder of MOVUS, Brad spent 25 years in national and global positions at corporates like Aurizon, Flight Centre, News Limited and Multiplex. Prior to founding MOVUS, he worked on automation blueprints projects for BHP and Aurizon. His inspiration for MOVUS came from a strategic condition monitoring program which he worked on for Sydney Trains.
John Scott
Engineering Operations Manager
John brings embedded, electrical and manufacturing experience to MOVUS through his previous hardware and mechanical engineering experience. As the Founder and CTO of Cartesian Co, he was involved in commercialising a process developed at the University of Queensland to additively fabricate circuit board for prototyping. This company grew, moved to the US and eventually sold printers to large companies such as NASA, Broadcom and GE. John eventually moved back to Australia where he Joined MOVUS to lead their hardware development.
Cameron Forsyth
Operations Support Engineer
A mechanical and aeronautical engineer, Cameron started at MOVUS as an intern in 2016. As a driver of the customer success team, he is responsible for answering technical questions about our system and its capabilities while competing against the AI to find equipment faults. He enjoys the challenges of analysing spectral data and maintaining FitMachine fleet health.
Lisa Wruck
Accountant
Lisa is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 experience across a range of public and private companies. After working primarily in the mining, oil and gas industries for many years, her focus has shifted more recently to working with start-up technology companies.
Rachael Parsons
Process Sustainability and Efficiency Coordinator
Rachael is our Process Sustainability and Efficiency Coordinator who is responsible for organising events and helping the company work towards becoming carbon neutral through recycling and process efficiency. Rachael is also a full time interior architecture student who in her spare time captain’s her netball team.
William Toohey
Firmware Developer
An entrepreneur himself with more than 2 years of professional work experience, Will is a software engineer advancing the firmware that makes the FitMachine tick. He lives to make low-footprint software to sustain IoT gadgets over time on a solitary battery.
Zoe Ling
Fleet Management Engineer
Having worked at MOVUS for over 2 years now, Zoe is part of the assembly team and involved in testing, quality checks, shipment and fulfilment processes of the FitMachine. She is also a full-time 4th year electrical engineering student at The University of Queensland and the 2020 Vice President for UQ EBESS.
James Beikoff
Technical Support Operations Engineer
Having worked at MOVUS as an intern, James has now joined the hardware and firmware team while in his final year of electrical and aerospace engineering at Queensland University of Technology. He enjoys the variety of problems he is challenged with at MOVUS and in his spare time you’ll have to look outdoors to find him enjoying himself fishing and camping.
Tim Warry
Customer Success Coordinator
Tim is a member of the customer success team with a focus on shipping and logistics. He started with MOVUS in 2019 after completing studies in Chemical Engineering. He also had a brief experience with the company at the end of 2018 and was so impressed with the culture that he knew where he wanted to work when a position became available.
Hayley Parsons
Operations Support Coordinator
Hayley provides support to the Head of Operations and wider teams by providing general administrative assistance and content writing support on a wide range of business activities. Though you may not see her name attached, Hayley works behind the scenes on case studies, content on our Knowledge Base, MOVUS University and more. When not at MOVUS, Hayley spends her time at studying Nutritional Medicine at Endeavour College of Natural Health.
Declan Keyes Bevan
Platform Developer
Declan is a software developer with experience in back-end, Cloud and automation. He has worked on short engagements in small companies through to publicly traded enterprises delivering multi-million dollar, business transformation projects. He has a deep knowledge of Python, having used it throughout his career to wrangle computers. Declan has designed, developed and operated Cloud-native, serverless applications and the Continuous Integration/Deployment pipelines to manage them using Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.
Mal Schulstad
Head of Operations
Mal started his professional life as an aeronautical engineer in the RAAF with a focus on IT systems and project management. He moved on from the military to lead a diversified career in the private, small business and not for profit sectors for almost 20 years. He joined MOVUS to help change the world for the better and when not working, can often be found falling off a mountain bike somewhere.
Peter Pennington
Sales Development Representative
Peter joined the MOVUS team having recently returned to Australia after 2 years living overseas in Japan. At University he studied Communications and has professional experience in Sales, Public Relations, and Education. Peter works on the Sales team, where he works in generating leads, presenting FitMachine to prospective customers, and helping them get started in their condition monitoring journey. Outside of work he enjoys watching soccer and playing music.
Alastair Petfield
Electrical Engineer
Having worked as an intern on FitMachine refurbishment hardware, Alastair is now part of the assembly team and is involved in testing, quality checks and shipment. He is also a full time student at the University of Queensland, studying a dual degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Maths. In his spare time, Alastair enjoys playing tennis casually and AFL for his local club.
Our vision
To preserve the Earth’s resources, we need to improve the efficiency and life of industrial assets.
In the last 30 years our planet has experienced exponential population growth, we have grown 2.5 times, from 3B to 7.5B. Mankind has established the conditions to not only enable us to survive but thrive. We have now entered the ‘anthropocene’, an age where mankind is the most dominant force on earth. However, this growth has come at a price, our natural environment is suffering. Four key industries are affected by this growth, water, food, energy, and mining. These industries share a common thread, they all rely on machines. We believe that by transforming machines across their lifecycle we can dramatically improve these industries for the benefit of the planet.
Our mission
Our goal is to bring consumer simplicity, combined with artificial intelligence to enable smarter machines.
As consumers, we have seen a dramatic explosion of technology that has touched all areas of our lives. Consumer technology businesses now represent the worlds largest corporations. We believe that machines need to undergo a similar transition. Machine technology has remained unchanged for decades. MOVUS is transforming dumb machines into ‘smarter machines’. Our technology will enable this on a global level through our consumer styled simplicity combined with world class artificial intelligence. We believe there is no time to waste.
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