Our People

Meet the Team

  • Grant Ryan

    Project Initiator/Coordinator

  • Matthew Hellicar

    Programme Manager & Field Coordinator

  • Jonathan Hardie

    Technical Lead

  • Cameron Ryan-Pears

    Hardware Engineering & Software Development

  • Giampaolo Ferraro

    Software Development

  • Lincoln Sell

    Designer

Other Contributors

These kind folks and organisations have provided their support, promoted us to their networks, or have generally helped us along the way!

  • Living Springs - Field testing and hosting meetings

  • Matthew Briggs - Testing & Software development

  • Clare McLennan - Software development

  • Sara Coutinho - User experience design & Bird Monitoring

  • David Blake - Software development and field testing

  • Tim Hunt (Wintec) - Cacophonometer lead

  • Dennis Sosnoski - TensorFlow engineer

  • James Ross (Lincoln University)

  • Chris Blackbourn - Data science and software development - machine learning

  • Menno Finlay-Smits - ex-Technical lead now wise old advisor

  • Matthew Aitchison - Machine learning

  • Arthur McGregor - Software development

  • Andy Saunders - Software development

  • Simon Matthews - Software development

  • Ben Biddington - Software development

  • Huub Nijs - System administration

  • Jimmy Kirkus-Lamont - Software development & graphic design

  • Deana Low, Mehedi Emrul, and Jessica Lyons - Social media (Concentrate Ltd)

  • Pete Higgins - Mechanical engineer

  • Dave Lane - Open source design and Drupal CMS integration

  • Brent Martin - Machine learning (University of Canterbury)

  • Elaine Murphy (DOC) - Animal behaviour

  • Gray Rathgen - Designer

  • Kate Haley - Supporter

  • Mark Nikoria (Wintec) - Data visualisation

  • Michael Busby - Website design and development

  • Max Johns - Content

  • Matt Kavermann - Digital lures

  • Donald  McKellar - Software testing

  • Stephen Marsland (Massey University) - Bird song analysis

  • Ewen Fraser - ArchEng Designs Ltd