Asset Management & Technology
MattTaylor
I started on the tools as a heavy duty apprentice mechanic and spent the next 22 years working across Australia and Africa, from workshop floors to senior leadership. Along the way I developed a serious interest in data and software as a force multiplier for operational performance. Now I build both.
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Background
About Me
My career in mining spans two decades, beginning on the tools as a heavy duty mechanic and evolving into senior leadership roles across maintenance, asset management, and business transformation. That progression, from trade through to leading a global consulting portfolios, has shaped a leadership style grounded in operational credibility, commercial awareness, and systems thinking.
I have led teams and transformation initiatives across Australia and Africa, with accountability spanning safety, performance, financial outcomes, and stakeholder alignment. My focus has consistently been on building high-performing teams and aligning people, processes, and technology to deliver measurable business outcomes; connecting strategy to execution in environments where both technical depth and commercial clarity matter.
I have lead the development of data and technology capability at scale, enterprise SAP transformation, modern analytics platforms on Snowflake and Power BI, and predictive maintenance systems built on anomaly detection. A key part of my role is translating deep operational experience into scalable systems and insights that empower leaders to act with confidence, not just react to data.
Outside of work I build applications and explore system design, driven by a genuine interest in solving real-world problems through software. Away from the screen, I've spent around six years coaching junior sport, teeball, netball, and basketball, and served on the Cancer Council WA Research Grant Advisory Steering Committee, a cause that remains personally important to me.
Leadership
Domain Expertise
Technology
Global Reach
Where I've Worked
17 countries across 5 continents — tap or hover to explore
Oceania & Asia
Africa
Europe & Americas
How I Lead
Leadership
People & Teams
Full budget and HR accountability for high-performing teams across engineering, analytics, and product, focused on developing capability and delivering results.
Organisational Change
Redesigned enterprise-wide processes, frameworks, and systems that fundamentally changed how maintenance operations are managed and governed across entire organisations.
International Operations
Led operations and embedded into senior roles across Australia, Mali, Zambia, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, comfortable with ambiguity, cultural complexity, and high-stakes environments.
Commercial Acumen
Built and operated an asset management consulting portfolio managing client relationships, business development, financial accountability, and concurrent project delivery.
Career
Work Experience
Superintendent Maintenance Processes & Systems | Principal Business Analyst | Lead Asset Performance | Project Manager | Reliability Engineer
Fortescue, Perth, Western Australia
Fortescue operates at massive scale, and so do the teams I lead. Across multiple senior roles I've carried full budget and HR accountability for high-performing teams spanning maintenance engineering, data analytics, and product development — while simultaneously driving some of the company's most significant maintenance system and process transformations. My focus has been building the capability, culture, and systems that allow Fortescue's maintenance operation to perform, continuously improve, and get smarter over time.
- →Led multiple high-performing teams with full budget and HR accountability across maintenance engineering, data analytics, and agile product development — consistently delivering against technical and commercial objectives
- →Drove Fortescue's enterprise-wide Work Management transformation, designing the company's first standardised training program and embedding governance frameworks across the full operational footprint
- →Built and led an agile product team to deliver a predictive maintenance platform using anomaly detection to surface failure signatures weeks ahead of breakdown
- →Established and grew a data engineering team from the ground up, accountable for all mobile maintenance reporting and analytical insight generation across the business
- →Designed and deployed KPI frameworks and live dashboards for Asset Performance, Work Management, and Reliability — replacing ad hoc reporting with structured, data-driven accountability at the executive level
- →Built a modern analytics stack on Snowflake and Power BI that scaled from individual equipment health monitoring to fleet-wide performance visibility for senior leadership
Principal Consultant | Project Manager
Calsta Pty Ltd, Perth, Western Australia
Ran a consulting practice specialising in asset management, maintenance strategy, and reliability improvement across some of the world's more demanding mining environments. Engagements ranged from multi-year programs in Western Australia to on-the-ground assignments in West and Central Africa, including stepping into a Maintenance Manager role overseeing heavy mining equipment in Mali and a Reliability Superintendent position at BHP's Mt Keith and Leinster operations. Every engagement was different; the fundamentals were always the same.
- →Managed a portfolio of concurrent international consulting engagements across Australia, Mali, Zambia, and Mauritania simultaneously
- →Embedded directly into client operations as Maintenance Manager (Mali, West Africa) and Reliability Superintendent (BHP Mt Keith & Leinster) — accountable, not just advisory
- →Delivered maintenance optimisation programs across five distinct mining operations, each with different equipment fleets, cultures, and commercial environments
Maintenance Supervisor
Ertech Pty Ltd, Wheatbelt, Western Australia
Supervised maintenance of heavy civil construction equipment across regional Western Australia, with accountability for fleet availability, scheduling, and safe working practice.
Workshop Supervisor
Emeco Group, Goldfields, Western Australia
Managed a workshop team maintaining a heavy equipment rental fleet for Goldfields mining operations — responsible for scheduling, quality, cost control, and a team of tradespeople across a demanding operational environment.
Maintenance Supervisor
First Quantum Minerals Ltd, Zambia, Central Africa
First posting outside Australia. Supervised maintenance of a heavy mining fleet in Zambia — a steep learning curve in international operations, remote parts logistics, and leading teams across cultural and language barriers.
Field Service Heavy Duty Plant Mechanic
Mader Contracting, Pilbara, Western Australia
Field service maintenance on heavy plant across the Pilbara — the kind of role that builds diagnostic instinct fast.
Heavy Duty Plant Mechanic (Apprenticeship)
Westrac Equipment Pty Ltd, Perth, Western Australia
Where it started. Four years learning the Caterpillar product range from the inside out, through the Perth component rebuild centres and on-site at Port Hedland and Telfer mine.
Qualifications
Education
Graduate Diploma in Project Management
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Completed 2015
- ★2015 Dean's List – School of Business and Law (top 5% of graduating class)
- ★Golden Key International Honour Society member
Certificate III in Automotive Engineering
Caterpillar Institute, Perth, Western Australia
Completed 2008
Giving Back
Community
~6 Years · Ongoing
Junior Sport Coach
Coached junior teeball, netball, and basketball across roughly six years of community sport. Working with kids at that age is a good reminder of what patient, encouraging leadership actually looks like.
February 2015 – July 2020
Research Grant Advisory Steering Committee
Cancer Council WA — contributed to funding decisions supporting cancer research. A cause that remains personally important.
Personal Work
Projects
Footy Oracle
An AFL prediction platform for the 2026 season powered by a custom Elo rating model that achieved ~73.5% accuracy in 2025 backtesting. The model blends Elo ratings (45%), recent form over the last 8 games (40%), and home-ground advantage (15%), with community tips layered on top. Features live game predictions, team statistics, ladder standings, and historical results — all fetched server-side from the Squiggle API with tiered caching and zero database overhead. Built with Next.js 16, React 19, and Tailwind CSS v4.
Budget Assistant
A full-stack personal finance app for tracking recurring expenses across any frequency — weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Expenses are normalised to a weekly view via a smart week navigator that respects per-user timezones and configurable week-start days. Includes bulk CSV import with a two-step preview flow, monthly spend charts, category breakdowns, and automated Sunday email summaries delivered via Resend. Built with Next.js 16, Auth.js v5, PostgreSQL via Vercel/Neon, and Drizzle ORM.
Parkour Master
A browser-based 2D parkour platformer built entirely on the HTML5 Canvas 2D API — no game engine, no shortcuts. Players choose a school year (1–12) and run through procedurally generated levels, answering Australian curriculum-aligned questions on death to respawn at the last checkpoint. Custom physics engine, mobile touch controls, checkpoint scoring, and a global leaderboard. Built with Next.js 14, React 18, and TypeScript.
Let's Talk
Get in Touch
Open to interesting conversations — whether that's a new role, a consulting opportunity, or just a chat about mining technology and data.