David Peterson
Chief Executive Officer at Advanced Precast Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Peterson is a seasoned engineering-trained executive with 16 years in senior leadership and a career rooted in structural and civil engineering. He has led major construction and materials businesses across Australasia—most recently as CEO of Advanced Precast Australia and WasteCo NZ—bringing operational rigor from roles at Boral, Fletcher Building and international managing-director positions. David blends technical credibility with strategic commercial acumen, having completed executive education at Wharton, Columbia Business School and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is known for turning engineering discipline into scalable operations and logistics excellence, driving regional integrations and growth across concrete, precast and building products. Based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on industry knowledge with board-level governance experience, often focusing on transforming legacy operations through process optimisation and leadership development.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BE ( Hons ), Civil Engineering, BE ( Hons ), Civil Engineering at University of CanterburyNZCE, Civil Engineering, NZCE, Civil Engineering at NZCECompany Directors Course, Company Directors Course at Australian Institute of Company DirectorsCertificate in Business Excellence, Business, Certificate in Business Excellence, Business at Columbia University - Columbia Business SchoolAdvanced Management Program, Business Administration and Management, General, Advanced Management Program, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
English
Github Skills (128)
ergonomics10
composition10
testing10
terraform10
lua10
hammerspoon10
unidirectional-data-flow10
uikit10
swiftui10
architecture10
modularity10
whisper10
bdd10
swift10
biginteger10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
randomeizer/swift-parsing
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
A library for turning nebulous data into well-structured data, with a focus on composition, performance, generality, and ergonomics.
Contributions:42 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 1 month
compositionstructuredergonomicsnebulousturning
randomeizer/jenkins-terraform
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:83 commits, 80 pushes in 9 days
jenkinsreusablejenkins-pluginjenkinsfile
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