A brief description of some projects, past and present, that I've been involved in.
The Grand South American Adventure
In 2009 I took three months long service leave to backpack around South America with two of my best friends. Whilst I photo-blogged my travels at the time, I've now decided to write a more detailed account of my journey. 'The Grand South American Adventure' project to document my travels post-event has just started.
Queen's College
Effectively a sequel to my Whitley College efforts (see below), the success of the IT transformation at Queen's College proved to be even more successful. The IT facilities at Queen's College have now become the core component for the community to communicate and it has fundamentally changed how the College community interacted with each other.
The Big Issue
The Big Issue is a non-profit organisation that produces a fortnightly non-political current affairs magazine. It is sold on the street for $5 by homeless people with half the proceeds of every sale going directly to the vendor. In this way, The Big Issue 'helps the homeless help themselves'.
I volunteered my time as an IT consultant and mainly assisted with maintaining their website. One highlight was creating the
Homeless Writers Online site which featured the writings of homeless people giving them a voice. Due to time limitations I've had to cease volunteering at The Big Issue, but it's something I intend to do in the future.
Whitley College
When I joined Whitley College at the start of 1997, it's IT facilities were aging and haphazard. Through lack of funding, expertise and commitment, the IT facilties at Whitley played a very insignificant role in College life. My role was to lead the transformation of Whitley's IT facilities to become state of the art with respect to the other Colleges in the area.
By the time I left four years late, Whitley College was a community of students linked via their intranet - be it getting the latest College news, ordering late meals, or submitting maintenance requests online. Online security webcams monitored the College foyer, phone bills
could be viewed and lunch ordered via the intranet.
Most significantly, all of this was run and maintained by the College residents. An ongoing in-house training program ensures that the expertise is maintained from year to year ensuring the continuation and further development of the IT facilites.
Ikan Bilis Solutions
Ikan Bilis Solutions was a computer reselling business that a friend and I established back in the heady days of 1996 when computers were still mostly arcane technology to the average person. I still rank this as one of the best experiences not only for the solid understanding it gave me in computer hardware, but also for the knowledge and experience in running a small business. And why 'Ikan Bilis'? Well it's a Malaysian word for dried anchovies - we felt our computer busines was the small fish in a big pond!
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