Daniel grew up in a family where education was the central, he started working in IT and education in 1987, undertook a thesis on this new thing called the internet in 1991, built the first Education Internet Service Provider in Australia in 1993, built the first school specific Internet gateway in 1995, and in 1998 he built the first Internet portal that linked logins to Internet activity in a centralised infrastructure. In 2000 Dan went on to conceive, design, and develop an e-learning platform which won the National Innovation Award from AIIA, and sold this business in 2006.
From 2008 Daniel went on to conceive and lead the National Schools Interoperability Program (NSIP). NSIP key achievements include; creating a national standard for exchange information between systems, and the development of the National Identity Management Framework (NIMF).
In 2014 Daniel made the move to New York and assisted their State Education Department in the implementation of an replacement system when in-bloom was canceled - called RICone it was an edtech marketplace to enable secure digital eco-systems and support innovation with school choice. Daniel initiated and delivered The Gates Foundation funded k12 Federation, an educational cooperative that coordinated collaborative solutions across organisations. Daniel then founded MoxieReader a tool to encourage independent reading programs to help kids increase their daily reading practice. MoxieReader was selected out of 500 applicants to participate in the StartED accelerator at NYU in New York, and he developed a high level network throughout the startup ecosystem across the USA.
On his return to Australia Daniel was appointed the Victorian EdTech Ambassador, authored a strategic review of EdTech for Victorian Government, undertook research review of tracking student progress with data for ACER, established an edtech market review of formative assessment trends, was appointed the inaugural chair of the CEO circle, ClearPath Syndicate, assisted John Hattie to establish a framework for categorizing how edtech supports high impact teaching practices and undertook a CTO role to enable the turnaround of a young edtech startup.