Douglas is a senior technologist and consultant with considerable local and international experience. He has a broad background that encompasses business and IT consulting (Boston Consulting Group/Platinion), Enterprise Architecture, Solution Development and Project Management.

He has a strong technical background in mobility consulting and is an expert in the sourcing, development and provisioning of mobility systems. Acknowledged as a leading practitioner of Field Force Enablement, Douglas has played a key part in the success of major mobility projects

Douglas’s career has included senior management and technical leadership roles in online new media, research and development as well IT management consulting:

• Extensive practical architecture and solution experience across a range of industries including government, utilities, telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, transportation and security;
• Comprehensive understanding of Enterprise business IT systems including applications, information and infrastructure architecture and EA design principles and methods;
• Experience implementing complex and large Mobility solutions from an RFP through to field deployment;
• Full technology domain experience from infrastructure through to the creation and management of Enterprise Architecture frameworks;
• Substantial and practical knowledge of EA/SA/SDLC methodologies;
• Development of common, business-focused visions for IT investments;
• Douglas understands the IT change management challenge, from identification of achievable value during the initial business needs analysis and business case preparation through to locking the benefits into the solution design, securing inclusive stakeholder engagement and commitment to the business changes that underpin success.

Douglas has consulted at the highest levels of business and comfortably engages and communicates at all levels of client organisations. As an effective communicator he has advised and trained peers, staff and clients in communication and presentation skills.

Douglas is a trusted advisor and team builder, a skill developed through hands on leadership experience and direct responsibility for success through group effort. He understands the dynamics of team participation and can build high performance teams.

Technology Profile

• Wireless / Mobile
• Smart-phone, Apple iPhone developer
• Real time embedded systems
• Enterprise technical infrastructure
• Enterprise middleware and application integration
• Internet technologies

Expertise / Capabilities

• Business process “mobilisation”
• Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Systems
• Technology Consulting
• Enterprise Architecture
• End-to-end SDLC

Career highlights

• Technical Director - CyberSoft
• Technical Director - Platinion, a Boston Consulting Group Company
• Technical Director - ZIVO
• VP Engineering - ActiveSky

• Design of solutions or products that have won multiple Australian Technology in Government Awards,
• Your Computer Magazine Product of the Year (twice),
• Australian Personal Computer Best of Breed,
• PC Week Editors Choice.