Searchlight Technology seamlessly connects conveyancing, legal and real estate professionals with local council information. Through an intuitive online solution, professionals are able to order Local Government information in the most efficient way possible directly from any South Australian council.

As a senior consultant with Experience Matters, I have assisted organisations with their information architecture (IA) and information asset management (IAM) issues. I have primarily concentrated on process analysis, organising and performing IM maturity reviews, stakeholder analysis and change management issues to inform business development and/or improvement strategies. I continue to be involved in the areas of project management and human resource development.Recent clients include Naval Construction Branch, SA Office of Data Analytics, SACE Board, Air Warfare Destroyer Project, Raytheon Australia, Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (NSW), Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (NSW), Department of Correctional Services (SA), Renewal SA, Indigenous Land Corporation, Minter Ellison SANT, RAA, City of Casey (Victoria) and Adelaide Hills Council.

AFFLIP is a voluntary, non-government, not for profit Foundation and Registered Charity based in South Australia, which seeks to make a contribution to the educational development of young people living in some of the poorest areas of the Philippines. At present its work is located in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.I serve as Sponsorship Coordinator and Communications Manager.Check https://www.afflip.com

Change Management SpecialistI was responsible for developing strategies to help ensure the adoption of the new SharePoint 2010 Information Management project across the organisation, including:• Stakeholder Engagement. • Change Management.• Benefits Realisation. • Development of a custom Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management System. Project Manager ¬– Santos ExtranetI project managed the development of a new extranet environment based on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform.The major tasks included:• Organising regular team meetings involving internal and external (vendor) parties and communicating outcomes and requirements• User requirements gathering and documentation• Definition of SharePoint and Network infrastructure• Establishing security requirements• Managing the development of three extranet template sites in the SharePoint development environment• Developing and completing user and technical test cases• Liaising with business and external stakeholders• Provisioning over 60 new extranet sites to met the needs of an extensive partnership network• Overseeing the development of an automated migration mechanism from the existing to new sites• Decommissioning the 2001 SharePoint site

QPM was a new Qatari company specializing in world-class Real Estate and Infrastructure Project Management Services. I was instrumental in designing information architectures and systems to move business processes to the online environment and pioneered this development in the 2010 suite of SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and Visio. I worked across multiple departments and projects to design, implement and train employees to use the new system which involved the use of online and real-time training programs.By way of example, this included:• Systems to publicise training and professional development programs and allow users to apply and have their application approved by their line managers• Analysis of specific departmental information and data requirements and the establishment of appropriate content structures, permissions and workflow processes• Design and development of an online Performance Appraisal system with personalised document and form libraries and defined workflow processes to ensure data integrity and security. My role included the work begun when employed as a member of the Berger-Hill Joint Venture (see below) to enhance the ability of the company to build the capacity of the local Qatari employees to allow them to effectively fill project management positions on the QPM constructions sites – a national initiative called Qatarization. Working in the Microsoft SharePoint environment I enhanced the Training database and designed and developed a Career Path and Personal Development Plan system. Using the system, I developed career plans for a number of young Qatari professionals.I developed training programs on the use of Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Primavera Contract Manager and 4Projects software and am currently delivering same to personnel at QPM project and office sites in Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Yemen.

Berger/Hill JV was a project management joint venture organization between Hill International (www.hillintl.com) and Louis Berger SAS (www.louisberger.com) established to support the set-up and operations of Qatar Project Management Company (QPM). In this position I was responsible for designing and building systems to capture corporate knowledge and to facilitate the effective management of personnel training and career development. I designed and developed several databases in Microsoft SharePoint to provide training course, course-provider, job-role and personnel data, as well as an online training library. I have also developed a suite of online forms using Microsoft InfoPath for full integration with the corporate SharePoint server to facilitate timely and effective data capture, management and retrieval

BEAM was an 8-year AusAID funded project which aimed to improve the quality of, and access to, basic education in the Mindanao Regions XI, XII and the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) of the Philippines. My role specifically was to build the capacity of assigned subject specialists and teachers in schools to design, write and use curriculum materials based on modern educational pedagogies. My project management skills were required in many areas as outlined below.Capacity Building ― to build the capacity of education professionals to improve the teaching and learning environment in schools. Needs Analysis ― established what teaching and learning resources were readily available and how useful and relevant those resources were and where the greatest areas of need were.Monitoring and Evaluation ― designed and implemented a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation program involving teacher, administrator and student interviews and questionnaires together with classroom observations. The results were used to continually modify the approach to the materials design and the associated training programs and to provide feedback to AusAID on the likely long-term benefit of the program. Learning Guides ― topic-based booklets with instructions and resources for teachers combined with related student activity materials for all levels of Elementary and Secondary English, Science and Maths were written. Acumen – a Learning Guide System. I conceptualised, designed and wrote the functional specifications for a web-based content-management and distributed authoring software application called Acumen. Training and Mentoring - developed and ran training sessions and provided on-going mentoring support for senior Regional and Divisional Education Department personnel, BEAM staff and teachers in schools. I established Materials Development Centres in each of the 3 regions to facilitate the timely production of high quality materials for use in schools.

During this period, I was a consultant specialising in Information and Content Management and Project Management.Newmont GoldI project-managed a large Business Information Audit and Information Classification Scheme Development project, which involved a study of essential business processes at all Newmont Gold (Australia) sites, categorization of information sets, data gathering, development and implementation of the Scheme.SantosThis project was very similar to the Newmont Gold project but further involved the development of an interactive information map which allowed quick and easy access to any information set within the Santos enterprise.AusBulkThis project involved an analysis of business processes with the aim of designing a web-based system that would be used by AusBulk's clients (grain growers across Australia) to more effectively manage their grain assets deposited at the AusBulk silos.A complete Specification was developed for and used by AusBulk to successfully build the required system.

N–Space was a web-application developer that produced and marketed a Content Management application called WorkSpace. My role concentrated on Operations Management, Sales, Marketing, Business Process Analysis and Documentation with respect to WorkSpace. I also provided instructional design, project management and business administration skills for the Company.

The main activities were technical documentation, developing training applications and interactive multimedia systems. Clients included:• British Aerospace Australia Ltd • IBM Australia Ltd. Multimedia Australia• Adelaide Casino• Investigator Science and Technology Centre• the Cities of Hindmarsh and Woodville (SA), and Parramatta NSW) • Australian Army's 16th Air Defence Regiment, Woodside, South Australia.

Produced printed and online user and technical documentation manuals, reference cards and video-based training tutorial programs for the complete suite of some 30 separate Local Government and Library products.

Teacher and Senior Master, Mathematics and Physics, Education Department, SATaught at Cleve Area School, Para Hills High School and Marryatville High School.Involved in committee work at State level, including: • South Australian Secondary Science Curriculum Committee, 1977 to 1980, serving on the laboratory design and physics curriculum writing sub committees• Public Examinations Board Physics Syllabus Committee, 1978 to 1983 • Senior Secondary Assessment Board of SA Physics Syllabus Committee for the years 1984 to 1987 • South Australian Science Teachers Association (SASTA) Executive, 1978 to 1982, serving as SASTA newsletter editor and SASTA conference committee, 1979 and 1980• Research Officer• Physics Matriculation Revision Guide writer and editor.• Foundation Advisory Committee for the CSIRO Science Education Centre in Adelaide from 1984 - 1987• Inaugural co-convenor of the Australian Oliphant Science Awards• Inaugural State Director of the BHP Science Prize, a position held from 1982 through 1986• National Science Teachers Association Conference Planning Committee, 1984.