Professional Coach-Mentor

A most engaging current activity is project managing the collective owner sale of the CBD apartment block I live in, as Chair of the body corporate committee. Taking that role in Sept 2020 my first task was to get the last 8 (out of 36) owners to sign a sale agreement before we could begin marketing. We’re now all signed up and just appointed a commercial agent.

Chair Body Corporate Property Committee

Delta Software t/a charIT growth

The long-established Delta Software IT improvement business, now sold, has shifted me into project consulting as 'charIT growth'. Working with non-profits to get new projects delivered, get legacy IT updated, get cloud systems working for better collaboration & business innovation. Working with selected fundraising and business performance vendors to focus on the digital transition that non-profits need to make, but most are under-resourced for. 

Three recent projects - cloud migration for a sizable environmental trust that is very active in their community; project managing a new fundraising tool deployment (Vega); and project director for a national rehab service building a mobile app that helps cancer patients recover health & fitness after treatment.

Owner-Consultant

Delta Software Ltd

Organising a Digital Leadership workshop with experienced colleagues & the IT Transformation Institute (www.transformingit.org). How to leverage the disruptive influences from technology innovations. We're well past the beginning of a major platform shift equivalent to the advent of client-server PC networks - but with a much bigger IT disruption impact. Resources are critical, investment decisions are inter-dependent and leadership for change is as critical as ever.

Consultant, mentor, project manager

Institute for Digital Transformation

Recently selected to join IDT's Institute Fellow Program. IDT's Fellows are Industry Experts that share experiences  and views for the shift we are currently experiencing - a transition from the industrial age to the digital era. 

For business & institutions, the digital era might look like a technology-driven shift, but brings fundamental changes to how organisations are structured & managed; to work culture & engagement; to partnering & collaborative ventures; to the cyber security lanscape; and to how companies are financed, from start-up funding to exit. 

For individuals & communities the digital era is a fast-evolving adoption of connected devices, smarter apps & processes, ongoing automation, and workplace disruption as the world-wide web merges with social media and the Internet of Things.

For tech practitioners & providers looking from the inside, the acceleration of change & innovation is a huge challenge - for tools, expertise, collaboration, project delivery, evolving methods & practices.

The IDT Fellows advise on how best to survive and thrive in the ever faster-moving Digital Era.

InstItute Fellow

Self-employed

Former CEO Vega.Works

Vega

CEO Vega.works

Raleigh International

On expedition from June through early Sept, running environment & community projects with volunteer teams. Just completed 3 projects, all involved developing leadership skills for the volunteers, developing their confidence & guiding them to explore their natural leadership qualities better. 

These young would-be leaders experience why it's essential to have a truly supportive & motivated team. As volunteer managers we use a personal development framework to help individuals make a direct personal connection, learn specific leadership skills, and at the same time be authentic as people. The immersive experience is a great way to soften attitudes and biases, enabling real learning come naturally. 

As project managers responsible for project delivery through the team we also have the opportunity to use the leadership toolkit to develop our own awareness & learn, support each other.

Result - a huge motivational shift as people develop skills & confidence, leading to all project goals done ahead of time. In a couple of cases we were so productive we ran out of materials.

Project Manager

This team experience comprised two goals

1. Run a community centre upgrade with a team of youth volunteers, to ensure three objectives
 * a great result for the village community
 * an excellent Raleigh project delivery
 * personal development for the volunteers

 Result - a big win for the Kampong Liu community who now have a brand new public toilet,
 a secure & covered rainwater supply, and an upgraded community centre.

2. Complete a 1-week adventure challenge as a volunteer team manager, with the goals of
 a) completing all challenges successfully
 b) winning the competition
 c) personal growth for team members

 Result - our Zulu team came 2nd overall, very close in points & won many team challenges.

Excellent stretch experience on several grounds – learning how Raleigh does field operations, engaging with the community for shared goals, achieving a visible result with a young & learning team, and helping each other push well beyond the usual comfort zones to knock off one challenge after another.

Volunteer Project Manager

ViFX

Establish a new Service Management practice for ViFX that delivers the IT transformation business needs to improve operational efficiency. IT must become a way to expand business capability. IT service management is many things, but first must deliver operational efficiency to enable business to optimise IT performance and focus on innovation.

In August 2012 after several months careful evaluation, we made a major commitment to Cherwell Service Manager as the primary ITSM platform for our business. Shortly afterwards, Cherwell appeared in Gartner's revised ITSSM magic quadrant for the first time, and straight at 3rd place. A heavyweight challenger indeed. We picked the same attributes - a true cloud-aware ITSM platform with a reputation for good deployment, and that supports multiple device access, flexible licensing and a host of smart usability features.

General Manager - Service Management

A long rewarding business IT career, now semi-retired and committed to environmental and climate action, working with established advocacy groups such as The Climate Reality Project, and others.  

A current project - rewriting Hanon. Well not rewriting - Hanon is too useful to replace - so much as augmenting for contemporary sounds and rhythms. Up to 8 basic exercises, when I have 10 I'll put on my Youtube channel. As well as modern riff-like patterns there'll be syncopation & rhythmic variations more relevant for today's keyboard technique.
 
My company Delta Software was for over 15 years a part of getting a professional IT service industry in NZ, delivering enterprise service improvement, IT service operations & change management; now part of enterprise agility specialists www.vifx.co.nz. 

I am passionate about developing people and sharing the goals and vision that creates commitment to success. That applies to business relationships, managing teams & outcomes, partnering.

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