Supporting the free monthly community newspaper for the North West Tasmanian community of Central Coast. Helping to give the community an independent not-for-profit voice with events and articles from the local community.Visit the website for a copy of the newspaper https://tccv.au

Mentoring Tasmania small business in Lean and AI tools to improve business workflows. Program is supported by the Australian Government - Small Business Advisory Services.

- Facilitating Lean Training using the Elphinstone SWE (Simulated Work Environment)- Providing Lean fundamentals and using Lean tools to demonstrate improvements.- Helping participants make connections between the SWE and real world business improvements.https://elphinstone.com/elphinstone-swe/The Elphinstone SWE is one of only three Lean training facilities of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, and the only facility in Australia. The facility is located in the Tasmanian Minerals, Manufacturing and Energy Council’s Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Burnie, Tasmania.

Using AI to implement Lean across organisations.

Giants by Blackbird is a community for aspiring and early-stage founders and those helping them to succeed. Giants is a 10-week online program with mentoring, founder knowledge-sharing, education and accountability tracking.

Born Global Incubator by Enterprize Tasmania is a 12-week program that teaches and guides aspiring founders through the Lean Startup Method with weekly classes, peer to peer support, and the introduction into the Tasmanian startup ecosystem, ending with a digital Demo Day broadcast to tens of thousands of people.

Training people in Ulverstone in a variety of courses to expand their knowledge.

Creating the perfect process flow to deploy new Hardware into Amazon Datacentres.

ACES/LEAN Software and Process development within AWS Datacentres.

- Support, Install and troubleshoot Server and Network hardware and software.- Vendor Management - Maintaining the high levels of Physical and Data Security.- Developed Javascript wrapper for Trouble Ticketing System to provide Workflows for Tasks. - Automated rack position tester. Verifying rack network position is 100% ready for Rack Install.- Developed UNIX Scripts, Grease Monkey Scripts to automate daily activities.- Logistics Automation Development – Part allocation and stock control.

- Managed all aspects of poultry processing plant. - HR, Training, Supervising, and Performance monitoring of staff. - Implemented improvements to processing room to increase throughput.- Automated ordering, allocation of stock, and invoicing using OpenOffice Macros.

- Technical Manager - supporting Servers, Network, and escalation for business accounts.- Support migration project from a multiPOP network to a Single POP using Telstra Wholesale.- Created 24/7 Support business with a team of technicians able to answer calls and escalate.- Migrate Local Plesk Websites to CPANEL Hosted solution.- Consolidate Servers to Co-Location Servers in Equinox Sydney under Virtual Environments.

- Technical Director on Board (financial Interest) - Built and maintained the multi-site IP Network for connecting clients in multiple regional areas.- Developed in house billing software using PHP and PostgreSQL with online Credit Card Gateway.- Monitored all Servers and Networks using Nagios and MRTG. Primary 24/7 Technical Contact.

NSW Government - Department of Commerce, Sydney NSW 1997 – 2006- Maintained Solaris, Linux (RedHat), HP & SVR4 UNIX Servers and Internet Firewall Security. - Secured servers across government divisions and created an IP DMZ server network. - Engineered remote monitoring systems for Power, Temperature and PABX control.- Implemented a Dual Link Application Firewall Cluster with redundant Layer 3 Switching.When DPWS went down the E-business road, I created a fully fault-tolerant DMZ using Hardware load balancing with Foundry ServerIrons, three WebShield firewalls and two Internet links. The DMZ contained Web, FTP and Database Servers from many different departments.

- 2nd level MacOS Technician, supporting Apple Networks (AppleTalk)- Contracted for 3 weeks and stayed five months. This was my entry into the corporate world. - Started learning to programme for MacOS to help migrate drafting users from UNIX to MacOS.

- NRTC was formed to provide computer and Internet access for the Lismore community. NRTC held training courses from Introduction to Computers to Advanced Desktop Publishing.- Provided training in Introduction to Macintosh Computers and Introduction to the Internet.- Connected with early 90s Internet artists, UNI Students, all creating videos and unique websites.

- Technical Lead for NRG, one of the first Internet Providers in Regional NSW.- Created the ISP using Dial Up Modems, a Cisco Router, and 128K ISDN Connection to Sydney.- This was my introduction to UNIX using Slackware Linux on a Desktop PC with multiple serial cards connected to layers of physical modems. It was a Christmas tree of blinking lights at night.- Spent many nights playing with Linux and Mac OS to learn about this wonderous Internet.