Tony is one of Australia’s leading practitioners in the catchment modelling and water quality field. He has worked in both government and consulting roles in the water quality discipline at technical and management levels and has over 35 years’ experience in the water industry. He is passionate about collaboration and science-based decision making and promotes these in all his projects. In recognition of his efforts in promoting modelling and the modelling community, Tony was awarded the 2012 Fellowship for the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Tony has been an author in numerous research papers and presented his research both nationally and internationally. Tony has been a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School in Australian National University, appointed as a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water's Basin Management Outcomes group in Canberra in 2016 and in 2025 was appointed as an Industry Fellow with Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute.