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Our Team

Our team has deep technical expertise across all domains relevant to the assessment, fine-tuning, prediction and communication of building performance. Half of our staff resources are dedicated to R&D and our R&D priorities are determined through client collaboration.

Craig Roussac

Chief Executive Officer

Craig is a director and co-founder of Buildings Alive and is responsible for our customer engagement and strategic direction.

About Craig
Craig is widely recognised for his contribution to the field of environmental performance management in buildings, particularly in relation to energy use. Prior to co-founding Buildings Alive in 2012, Craig worked for a leading Australian commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) where he led the sustainability, safety and environmental management functions and directed the group’s  research activities. He is a Fulbright Scholar and during 2014 was based in the United States at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment (CBE) where he contributed to research focused on reducing energy use in buildings by combining technologies and non-technological factors. Craig has a PhD from the University of Sydney where his dissertation in architectural science was published as “A framework for presenting energy efficiency feedback to operators of buildings”. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (ANU), a Bachelor of Construction Management & Economics (Hons) and a Grad Dip in Applied Finance and Investment.

Baden Hughes

Chief Technology Officer

Baden is a director and co-founder of Buildings Alive and leads the evolution of our technology platforms.

About Baden
Baden has extensive business strategy, product development and technology operations experience. Baden co-founded Buildings Alive in 2012 and has designed and operationally managed its customer-facing and internal technology platforms from inception. Baden has been a co-founder and executive leader with a technology product strategy and development focus in a number of successful early stage businesses in Australia and overseas, as well as having had a successful management consulting career with a specific focus on business advisory and information services. Baden’s academic background is in natural language processing and the information sciences, and he has published widely in these areas.

Brad Schultz

Head of Customer Engagement

Brad leads our services team and is focused on ensuring customers gaining maximum value from Buildings Alive’s capabilities.

About Brad

Brad joined Buildings Alive in 2020 to help drive the global expansion of Buildings Alive’s services. Brad has an extensive history in Business Development, General Management, Energy Management, Energy Efficiency, Analytics and Building Automation across several organisations. He also has a history in Hardware/Software Product Development and Product Management. 

 

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Tsiry Randria

Senior Building Systems Engineer

Tsiry leads our engineering activities in Europe and works with our clients to help them enhance building performance.

About Tsiry
Tsiry joined Buildings Alive in 2013 and prior to his relocation to France in 2014 was based in Australia working with our clients to help them fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings. More recently Tsiry has been focused on our European expansion and working with our research and data scientists to further develop and refine our techniques to predict and optimise resource use in buildings. Prior to joining Buildings Alive, Tsiry worked as an energy auditor and project manager on reviews and upgrades for large commercial, hotel and industrial sites throughout Australia and Europe. He commenced his career as a sustainable design engineer in France where he contributed to various green building projects in education, commercial, health and residential buildings. Tsiry is an accredited NABERS assessor, a Green Star Accredited Professional (Design and As Built), a Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP), an accredited Energy Management System Auditor (IRCA – ISO 50001) and has a Master of Engineering (Building Design and Construction) degree from INSA, France. 

Asanka Rahubadda

Senior Building Systems Engineer

Asanka works with our clients to help them fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings.

About Asanka
Asanka’s role encompasses detailed data analysis and onsite advice about efficiency opportunities to help our clients fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings. She has wide-ranging experience in energy efficient process optimisation, project management and renewable energy applications. Asanka joined Buildings Alive in 2014 having previously worked as an engineer with Sri Lanka’s Sustainable Energy Authority where she contributed to the preparation and implementation of Sri Lanka’s building code for commercial buildings, including applications for lighting, ventilation & air conditioning, building envelop design, electrical wiring, pumps and other installations. Asanka is a Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP), has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and an M.Sc. in sustainable energy engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, which included a thesis project on energy efficiency improvements in the hotel sector, as well as a PhD in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the University of Sydney. 

Mike Case

Senior Building Systems Engineer

Mike assists clients with the optimisation of building technology and performance.

About Mike
Mike joined Buildings Alive in 2015 and works with our clients to help them fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings. He also has a lead role in the ongoing development of Buildings Alive’s technology supporting BMS analytics. Mike started his career working as a control systems engineer on the design and implementation of various automation projects and quickly progressed to become a project manager with a prominent controls company delivering large-scale and complex building management systems. Mike is an accredited NABERS assessor andholds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) degree from the University of Sydney. 

Michael Karaiskos

Building Systems Engineer

Michael works with our clients to help them fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings.

About Michael
Michael’s role encompasses detailed data analysis and onsite advice about efficiency opportunities. Prior to joining Buildings Alive in 2019, Michael worked in technical consultancy roles with the UK’s leading energy assessor accreditation scheme. He is a Certified Domestic and Non-Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA and NDEA) trained to the UK’s highest standards. Michael holds a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as well as a Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Technologies from the University of Southampton, UK.

Aayan Shuja

Building Systems Engineer

Aayan works with our clients to help them fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings.

About Aayan
Aayan’s role encompasses detailed data analysis and onsite advice to help our customers improve the efficiency of their buildings. Prior to joining Buildings Alive in 2018, Aayan worked in operations roles with a leading corporate real estate / facilities management group. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (electrical and electronics) degree from Hamdard University, Pakistan and Masters degrees in Engineering Studies (Computer Control Engineering) and Engineering Management, both from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Majd Qutob

Data/Operations Coordinator

Majd coordinates our services team and data operations to ensure clients receive actionable insights and excellent service.

About Majd

Majd joins Buildings Alive having spent a number of years in land and property management for the Canadian Government, specifically in Indigenous Services and in Procurement. These roles saw Majd leading a team of multi-disciplinary professionals and engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders regarding the use of land assets held in trust. Majd has a background in finance and business administration, with a Diploma in Business Administration from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, a Diploma in Social Sciences from Langara College, and a Bachelor in Accounting from the same institution, all in Vancouver, Canada.

Hao Huang

Data Scientist and Senior Building Systems Engineer

Hao combines R&D with his role helping clients to fine-tune and optimise the performance of their buildings.

About Hao
Hao supports our clients with detailed data analysis and technical advice about efficiency opportunities. He is also an active member of our research and development team working to advance our data acquisition and analysis technologies. Hao joined Buildings Alive in 2016 upon the completion of his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide where he developed model-based intelligent control strategies for optimising the operation of HVAC systems in commercial buildings. During his PhD he worked closely with facilities managers both at the university and also Adelaide Airport where his research findings were field-tested. Prior to moving to Australia, Hao worked as a field service engineer for GE in China. In addition to his PhD, Hao has a Master of Engineering (mechatronics) degree from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Beijing University of Technology. 

Cameron Roach

Data Scientist

Cameron is researching data science techniques for building energy efficiency optimisation.

About Cameron
Cameron joined Buildings Alive in 2016 at the commencement of his PhD at Monash University which is focused on optimising building energy efficiency using data science techniques. He has worked in a variety of fields including financial risk analysis, pollution dispersion modelling and energy forecasting. He completed a Bachelor of Science with a double major in applied mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne (UoM). He has also completed a Master of Science majoring in statistics and stochastic processes at UoM. During his Masters research he helped develop a new statistical estimator for open population sizes, which had applications in ecology and epidemiology.

Sathish Rajan

Product/Platform Development Manager

Sathish ensures that our product development and delivery is aligned to customer requirements.

About Sathish

Sathish started his career as a programmer, before making the switch to project / program management. His experience covers different sectors including insurance, telecom and mapping applications. He has a Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Madras, India. He also holds Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), from IIM Indore, India.

Roger Chen

Senior Platform Engineer

Roger leads the development of our technology systems and software applications.

About Roger
Roger has taken a lead role developing almost every aspect of Buildings Alive’s Rapid Efficiency Feedback (REF) platform and associated technologies. His extensive experience spans publishing, financial, and mobile technology industries, in addition to energy and environmental performance analytics. Prior to joining Buildings Alive in 2013, Roger was a development team lead for several web applications including a mobile based billing platform, a mobile campaign platform, and a mobile message scheduling platform. He also has extensive experience in high-availability platform performance profiling and tuning, web services/API integration and production services/server migration. Roger has a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree from UNSW. 

Michael Yuan

Senior Platform Engineer

Michael leads the development of our technology systems and software applications.

About Michael
Michael has taken a lead role developing almost every aspect of Buildings Alive’s Rapid Efficiency Feedback (REF) platform and associated technologies. Prior to joining Buildings Alive in 2013, Michael gained extensive experience working on a diverse range of projects in the mobile, payment, education and gaming industries including the development of content management systems (CMS), customer relationship management (CRM) systems, mobile campaigns and mobile billing platforms. He has a strong track record in designing, building, deploying and delivering high quality and comprehensive software programs and holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Beihang University, China, and a Master of Information Technology with double majors in E-Commerce and Database Systems from UNSW. 

Ali Jariani

Data / Platform Engineer

Ali works on our relational and non-relational data infrastructure and services.

About Ali
Ali is a specialist data engineer with specific experience in large scale data management in telecommunications and law enforcement, and earlier broader experience across ICT professional services. His background includes working with very large and dynamic subscriber and billing data collections for purposes such as revenue assurance and fraud management, identity management and border control. Ali has an Associates degree in Computer Science from Shamsipour University, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering from Ayandegan University, both in Iran.

Grammy Jiang

Data / Platform Engineer

Grammy works on our technology systems and software applications, particularly in data modelling and integration.

About Grammy
Grammy is an experienced software engineer who has specific experience in working with online and unstructured data. Before joining Buildings Alive, Grammy worked for a media laboratory, a social media/digital marketing business, and earlier for a number of building/environmental design and project management consulting firms. He has also contributed to a number of prominent open source projects. Grammy has a dual Bachelor’s degree in Building Services Engineering and Computer Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) and a Master of Science in Intelligent Building Technology and Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

 

Ashwini Amaran

Platform Engineer

Ashwini works on our technology systems and software applications,

About Ashwini

Before joining Buildings Alive, Ashwini worked for an IT service provider who developed and sold an analytics platform for higher education administration and student management. Ashwini has a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Engineering from New Horizon College of Engineering in Bangalore, India.

Mauli Patel

Platform Engineer

Mauli works on our technology systems and software applications,

About Mauli

Before joining Buildings Alive, Mauli worked in software development at one of the large Indian IT outsourcing companies, specifically working with an inventory tracking and customer order fulfilment system for high value gemstones. Mauli has a Bachelor in Computer Applications and a Master in Computer Applications, both from Ganpat University in Mehsana, India.

Neelabh Singh

Front End Software Engineer

Neelabh focuses on building great digital experiences for our customers.

About Neelabh

Neelabh joined us in 2020 as a specialist front end software engineer.  Prior to Buildings Alive, Neelabh worked in both environmental services and in banking/insurance. Neelabh holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from UNSW, Sydney and a Computer Science degree from RV College, Bangalore.

Lionel Bartlett

IT Administrator

Lionel ensures our technology infrastructure and platforms are resilient, flexible and scalable.

About Lionel
Lionel works alongside the platform development team to support our internal IT systems and onsite equipment, to ensure a stable and reliable operating environment. Contributing to a range of innovation/platform projects from a systems perspective, end-user technology support, routine systems administration and management tasks. Lionel has lived and worked internationally (Africa, Europe, Australia) as a consultant and support engineer, within many industries, including banking, education, government departments and insurance. With a Diploma in Computer Data Processing and relevant industry certifications he brings strong technology experience to the team. Lionel enjoys problem solving and especially root cause analysis, using open source tools or developing his own.

Melissa Ho

Finance and Admin Officer

Melissa provides finance and administration support across the business.

About Melissa
As Finance and Administration Officer, Melissa is responsible for Buildings Alive’s day-to-day financial administration and works closely with our services engineers to ensure we maintain the highest level of customer support at all times. Prior to joining Buildings Alive in 2019, Melissa gained wide-ranging experience from working with leading financial services and stockbroking firms administering deals and settlement processes.