Phil's main interest and career path is the practical application of sport science and technology to improve athletic performance; with particular interest in the use of 3D Motion Analysis and Biomechanics methods.

Phil has been an innovator in sport biomechanics for nearly 30 years. He is also an Olympian and former Australian National Gymnastics All-Around Champion.

Phil co-developed one of the first sports motion analysis systems while working as Head of Engineering Technology for the US Olympic Committee's Sport Science Program in Colorado Springs in the early 1980's. Since then he has co-developed several motion analysis systems for companies he has co-founded, including; Peak Performance Technologies Inc., Skill Technologies Inc. and Advanced Motion Measurement Inc. One of Phil's most recent projects with Advanced Motion Measurement Inc., has been helping develop a revolutionary wireless 3D motion measurement sensor, called the AmmSensor. This small light Bluetooth compatible sensor will communicate with either a laptop or Smartphone to track human motion in real-time and can be used for biofeedback training and as a long term motion data logger.

Since 2004, Phil has also been working with Dr Greg Rose and Dave Phillips at the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, California as Head Biomechanist and Director of the TPI Biomechanics Advisory Board. There Phil has co-developed TPI 3D which was formerly AMM 3D. TPI 3D is a motion analysis system specifically designed to measure golf swing motion and efficiency using a respected biomechanics principle called the Kinematic Sequence. Today Greg Rose and the team at Titleist call Phil "The 3D Guy" because of his innovation in three-dimensional motion measurement which has proved to be invaluable in rapidly improving athletic performance.

Phil has published research articles in the biomechanics of sports, including gymnastics, golf and other sports. He was a leader in the gymnastics research project at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. In 2000 he was awarded second place in Golf Magazine's "Golf Science" competition for his research on the "X-Factor Stretch". Phil's most recent publication appears in Science and Golf V; the proceedings of the 2008 World Scientific Congress of Golf and is titled "Comparison of Kinematic Sequence Parameters between Amateur and Professional Golfers". This research validates the importance of an efficient motion sequence and good accelerations and decelerations in the downswing of golf.

Phil received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Honors) degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 1977 and a Master of Science degree in Physical Education (Biomechanics) from Arizona State University in 1981 and is currently progressing towards his PhD in Biomechanics also at ASU.