About Dave
How I got here.
Photography taught me to notice. Engineering taught me to think in systems. Illness changed the questions I wanted to answer.
I did not arrive here in a straight line.
I am completing my clinical nutrition degree after earlier careers in software engineering and fashion photography.
For most of my career, I solved problems with code and cameras. Both taught me to look beyond the obvious, stay curious and keep working until the details made sense.
Nutrition did not replace those parts of my life. It grew from the same instinct: understand what is really going on, then find a useful way forward.
What each chapter taught me
Engineering
Engineering taught me to think in systems, follow a problem carefully and look for the relationships that are easy to miss.
Photography
Photography taught me to pay attention to details, to people and to the stories that often sit beneath the surface.
See my photographyClinical nutrition
Clinical nutrition brings those habits together: curiosity, careful investigation and practical support shaped around a real person.
Illness changed the questions.
My interest in nutrition became personal after living through lupus nephritis. Medical care was essential, but recovery also raised slower questions about food, sleep, stress, routine and how to rebuild a life.
I know what it is like to leave an appointment with more questions than you arrived with. That experience is part of why I care about making complex information clearer, without replacing the care of a GP or specialist.
Read the longer storyWhere I am now
Today I bring those same habits into clinical nutrition.
I am completing a Bachelor of Health Science in Clinical Nutrition in Australia. Study gives the work structure: evidence, scope, boundaries and a better way to translate nutrition science into language people can use.
Lived experience can sharpen your attention, but it does not replace formal training. I want both in the room, alongside respect for your existing medical care.
- Study
- Completing BHSc Clinical Nutrition
- Consultations
- Worldwide via telehealth
- Approach
- Food-first and designed to complement medical care
How I tend to work
Careful enough to investigate. Practical enough to know when simple is better.
Good questions.
Your symptoms, history, routines and goals all matter. The work starts by understanding your story before deciding what may help.
Root-cause thinking.
I look for useful patterns across food, lifestyle, pathology and the wider clinical picture without pretending every answer is simple.
Practical advice.
Recommendations need to make sense in ordinary life. Food comes first, with targeted support only when it has a clear purpose.
Where to next?
Read the Journal if you want to see how I think. If the fit already feels right, we can talk by telehealth wherever you are.