“Peter brought an evangelistic style to the CTO role that ensured our clients felt that the technology vision and platforms of the company would provide significant value to their business and were ahead of the curve. He was also able to generate significant internal excitement for the business and where it was headed, and followed that up by providing individual attention through supporting business development with opportunities and technologists with their solutions. I especially enjoyed Peter’s passion, vision and ability to engage an audience.”

Sean Murdoch, Manager, Major Projects (IS), Matrikon Asia-Pacific

“Peter is a visionary within the systems domain and an ardent and indefatigable enthusiast of applied technologies. Peter not only manages to maintain currency across the multitude of breakneck-paced technology trends, but can shape these into a working paradigm that enables an organization to formulate and deliver solutions, services and a coherent marketing strategy. Certainly Peter’s insight into optimization, production and operational systems (typified by MES functions) has enabled him to realize tangible benefits whether applied to externally to clients, or internally within his own organization. Personally Peter has provided me tools to attain a new level of enthusiasm and clarity for this domain and was as a source of professional inspiration. It was a pleasure working with and learning from Peter. I would certainly recommend Peter to any organization looking for a kick start or step change in their approach to the delivery, application or management of technology.”

David Dickson, Regional Accounts Manager, Matrikon Asia-Pacific

“Peter Lawrence is passionate and committed about driving innovation on technology inside and outside of the company he works for. His leadership brought great change on Matrikon’s technology taking Matrikon to a pioneer status on the MES industry. His excellent communication skills allow him to connect with peers and more importantly with customers to understand the business needs of process industries and to enable a smooth flow of solutions to resolve those business issues. I highly recommend Peter Lawrence as technology leader and technology visionary.”

Alvaro Rozo Ortega, Product Manager (Electronic Logbook), Matrikon

“I have had the honor of working with Peter for somewhere around 4 years in various roles directly or indirectly managed by Peter. I have always been amazed by how much there is to Peter. He is a brilliant visionary with a passion for technology. He is well versed in technologies that support his vision, whether they are mainstream or emerging areas. He can take these technologies and envision and create solutions to complex technical and business domain problems. Beyond the technical brilliance, Peter is a great educator and spokes man. Peter does a great job of explaining very intricate and difficult technical details to other technical people in order to realize implementation of that vision. At the same time, Peter can adapt to the communication needs of other stakeholders involved in the projects and products he’s managing.
Peter is an extremely hard working individual. He never seems to stop working or thinking. Even laden with heavy travel, Peter doesn’t slow down, but merely appears to live and work in 3 parts of the world simultaneously. When he’s not working hard, there is a very interesting personal side full of interesting hobbies and interesting conversations. I will miss having those conversations in person.
I would certainly invite the opportunity to work with Peter again in the future. I learned a lot, grew a lot and can see that I have much to improve if I am to become a shadow of what he has been for these past 4 years.”

Greg Hansen, Software Developer, Matrikon Inc.