John has over 40 years of senior executive experience and technical leadership in the testing, certification, fire and building industry. He has a unique background starting as a professional firefighter with the Melbourne Fire Brigade, building surveying and senior roles with the Australian Building Codes Board, Building Research Association of New Zealand, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation and Norman Disney and Young. These roles have taken him through building code reform, fire research, emergency management planning, product testing, product certification/accreditation, change management, international building code development, investigation and assessment, fire safety engineering consulting, risk engineering and business development in Australia and internationally.
Shae is well known as an expert in fire safety systems. His experience includes installation, design, consulting, and teaching of fire protection. Shae’s technical expertise is in product design, prototyping, innovation, flow engineering, and 3D CAD.
He has worked closely with the Fire Protection Association of Australia, Australian Standards, the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition of Australia, the Australian National Construction Code Committee, and RMIT University.
Shae’s family are Italian and he comes from an artistic background. He graduated in classical music at the Victorian College of the Arts.
