Joan’s Index

I write a bi-weekly newsletter, featuring essays on tech, humans and economics.

Founder / Writer

MODA DAO

Advisor

Flare

Director Of Communications

Fishburners

Head Of Marketing

Joan Westenberg is a seasoned writer focused on tech and economics. She was honoured as one of the top 100 innovators by the Australian. Joan has written for Wired, The Australian Financial Review, the SF Chronicle, The Saturday Paper, Chainsaw, Yahoo,  TIME, Inc, the ABC, Crikey and others. Beyond her writing, Joan is an advisor to Culture Vault and MODA DAO, fusing her technological expertise with her passion for cultural innovation. Joan has spoken at SXSW, NFTfest, Microsoft Ignite, Web Summit etc.

Joan Westenberg

Advent Atum 

Raised 2 million in seed funding round.
Headed Angel Investment  for Advent Atum.
Established key strategic partnerships to secure supply for vehicle and AI development.
Product, concept development and research into hand gesture recognition to communicate to vehicle autonomous systems (part of HORAS AI systems)

Chief Executive Officer

Managed a team of 10 scientists and engineers, and business staff 

Led all product design, engineering, and manufacture of the company's products for Proteus and HORAS.

Managing Director

Defence and Robotics Technologies
Company launch date July 2021

Founder and Manager

UndaTech

European Representative

Адвент Атум Україна ТОВ

Генеральний директор

Wilson Legacy Group

Successor & Group Managing Director

Jabroni Capital

Clout Advisor

Australian Army

Data Scientist (Captain - Army Officer)

Contributions 
Operation Covid 19 Assist (2020)
Mentor Instructor - Indigenous Leadership and Resilience Program 2019
Operation Waratah Assist 2013

Infantry Rifleman

Skoutli

Angel Investor

PolSpec Clothing

Fashion Designer and Founder

Atturra

vCTO for Sectara 

Business Intelligence Developer for Origin Energy

Tableau developer for DCJ

Data Science Consultant (Data Science and Analytics)

Technical leadership of OutSystems Practice managing hybrid teams on various application projects. Onshore and Offshore teams. For example, built a dynamic data migration application that simplified data migration across OutSystems environments where the user selects an application, then with a few simple clicks data is migrated to target environments.

Built field services application prototype for Council maintenance teams to conduct their work.

Built a HR onboarding proof of concept for onboarding new hires for a mining company.

Built a sporting registration application prototype for parents to use to manage their children's sporting activities with state schools.

Enterprise, Application  and Analytics architecture. 
Tender response writing
Application Development (Web, Android, iOS) 
Security compliance analysis.

OutSystems, SQL, JSON, JS, C#, Wolfram, Python

Software Engineer (Mobile and Web Applications Engineer)

Roles
Project Manager
UX/UI design
Power BI Developer
O365


Managed team of Holocentric Developers, developed  Air Force electronic Project Portfolio Management System using MS Power Platform and SharePoint. Trained RAAF personnel in the use of Power BI and Power Platform technologies

Project Manager/BI Developer

Creating Analytics Solutions for Atturra Customers
Developed regression models for analysing attrition rates for Air Force staff completing training using Excel Wolfram Mathematica.
Developing Graph and Network visualisations using Woflram Mathematica
Data wrangling with Mathematica

Senior Data Analyst

Managing test schedules, writing test plans and executing text cases for software. 
Regression testing
Smoke testing
User Acceptance Testing

Acting Test Manager

UX/UI design for Air Force preparedness software.
Balsamiq
Gathering business requirements and writing user stories and acceptance criteria.

Senior Consultant

NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA)

Designing relational models , exploratory data analysis and creating Power BI reports on pollution and meteorological trends. Including regression analysis.

Data and Analytics Specialist

ARC reporting standardisation and automation: Process mapping. Managing working group across several business units and coordinating work tasks across the group. Stock take of data and reporting capabilities across business units.  

· Project lead and solutions design (IT EPPM solution): Created a business case and project plan to standardise project reporting and adopt EPPM solution for the organisation. Gathering business requirements across the organisation. Needs/Requirements Analysis of project reporting requirements. 

A/Chief Audit Executive responsibilities - Managed multiple responsibilities and workloads after the team transferred to other opportunities. Responsibilities including coordinating audit and risk updates from key business areas (such as financial report, probity reports, WHS reports, enterprise risk reports). Initial preparation of Chief Audit Executive report, responding to Audit and Risk Committee inquiries and providing advice.

· Power BI reporting/dashboarding: Created Audit and Risk dashboard with connection to SharePoint, providing up-to-date information on audit status and health, and status of recommendations, and measuring performance against set KPIs.

Business Data Analyst/Audit and Assurance

Polymath 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱

Staunch Australian Patriot

Key interests: robotics, autonomous systems, data science, business improvement and scaling, social media marketing, health policy, public health, law enforcement, intelligence, epidemiology,  preventive health, microbiology, immunology, futurism, physics, electrification of transportation, Aboriginal affairs,  defence manufacturing industry.

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