My background
From analogue to AI
I learned my trade when the world was analogue — then they went and switched it all over to digital. Back then you could see and hear a problem coming; now you just get "no signal" or "no ping" and a shrug.
Almost three decades on — across operators, integrators and end customers — the goal hasn't changed: cut through the complexity and help clients make data-backed decisions they can stand behind. These days, with hands-on AI and machine learning in the mix, there's never been a better time to innovate — actually doing it in a modern ground station, not just talking about it.
Which brings me to Dave
Dave is an AI agent — he started life as a personal project. I'd spent the best part of ten years grumbling that nobody looks at a spectrum analyser anymore, nobody runs a P1dB test, everybody's forgotten RF — so I asked the obvious question: why can't an AI do it?
If the industry is going the TowerCo way and GSaaS really is the future, then somebody has to keep the RF craft alive. Then came my Eureka moment: I bought the domain GSaaS.ai.
Like a lot of the best engineers I know, Dave started out in the NOC. I'm teaching him the craft: carriers, transponders, how to align a dish, and how to read a spectrum analyser. When he reaches the edge of what he knows, he hands off to SatClaw.ai — an orchestrated agent-driven system (think OpenClaw, but its tools are modems, antennas, spectrum analysers and software-defined radios rather than lines of code).
On-premises, on principle
Dave and SatClaw run entirely on-premises, on local GPU — the data stays in my office, or yours. AI companies are pouring in trillions and seeing back billions; that model can't hold — and in our industry especially, we're the people who are supposed to be there when the cloud fails, not the ones quietly making everything depend on it.
Where I've worked
Across Asia-Pacific and beyond I've led network design, capacity procurement and market-entry projects — increasingly applying machine learning, predictive analytics and intelligent automation to spectrum planning, capacity optimisation and link-performance modelling.
Well known in the industry as a no-nonsense, results-driven professional (and I absolutely love an inclined-orbit challenge):
- I've monetised what they said couldn't be monetised.
- I've relocated satellites where they said it couldn't be done.
- I've punched holes through congested spectrum to get satellites on air.
I work independently — impartial, vendor-neutral advice, now augmented by the AI tooling I build in-house.
Expertise
- AI & ML for network optimisation and capacity planning
- Predictive analytics, anomaly detection & digital twins
- Satellite systems: GEO, MEO & LEO constellations
- Ground segment & teleport design
- Spectrum, regulatory & licensing strategy
- Capacity procurement & commercial negotiation
- Connectivity for maritime, aero, enterprise & government
- Data-driven market analysis & business case development