Nine years reading a room. Now I build the tools that run it.

The problem: new servers take days to learn the allergens, wine pairings and dish stories well enough to sell a menu, and until they do, service quality and upsell both suffer.

What I built: a gamified, web-based quiz tool that turns menu knowledge into a fast, repeatable training loop. One engine, reconfigured with each venue's own content.

Rolled out at: 11 Barrack and Ashe in Sydney. Taking it to a second venue meant scoping their menu, loading it into the same engine and handing it to a new team: a small-scale customer implementation, done on my own time.

The problem: most wine education is written for the trade, for sommeliers and industry certs, and it intimidates the people who'd enjoy it most: everyday wine drinkers with plenty of curiosity and no technical background.

What I built: a wine-learning app that explains wine in plain language, with no jargon and no assumed knowledge. Lessons are short and hands-on: you drag a slider to watch grapes ripen, scrub through fermentation, or see how skin contact turns a wine red. Quizzes, streaks and badges keep people coming back, and a tasting guide walks you through your next glass using what you've just learned.