I have a number of skills in a number of areas and have a few topics around which I can talk for 40 mins or 1-2 days!! You may consider them to be a bit eclectic and not really connected .... but in fact they are all connected through my project management, business investment and general management experience. All of them are well grounded in my personal journey ....good and bad!

I am mostly engaged through my consultancy firm HolisTech® Pty Ltd or my investment firm Padden Industries Pty Ltd, but I do have relationships with companies and businesses big and small through which I sometimes sub-contract.

A while back, I was asked by a business colleague to assist in providing an insight into how an organisation could handle their knowledge asset better and how they could weave a network of advisors and small/medium enterprises.

After a couple of coffees and a long chat, he asked if I could encapsulate our discussion in a short brief. Always up for a challenge, I based the brief on the one hour executive briefing we (HolisTech Pty Ltd) provide to executives in Government agencies on leveraging Web 2.0.

If Web 1.0 is the broadcast web ("here I am and this is what I do" - it is read only - static) then Web 2.0 is the collaborative web ("here I am and we can do this together" - it is read/write and interactive - a far richer experience).

Milton, N, Knowledge Management for Teams and Projects, Chandos Publishing, Oxford, 2005

This book started slowly for me. But once I could see where Nick Milton was coming from, quite a few things "clicked". Being a project and program manager myself, some of his concepts resonated tremendously and I will implement them in some of the areas I work in including some of my clients.

I am exploring a number of concepts under an eclectic collection of
subject areas. I am also exploring some of these in my blog about small
and medium enterprises and micro-businesses at Lukim All. Undoubtedly, I will add to these in time.

Formal. Pat is a very experienced program and project manager with a strong academic background in the profession which includes post graduate project management qualifications. He has a significant and current consulting and business background with a particular strength in communicating complex concepts in simple and pithy ways including discussions, presentations, blogs and papers.

Informal. I am the normal family man - wife and two daughters, two dogs (german shepherd and golden retriever - stupid and cupid as the kids call them!), a stack of frogs in the gardne and a visiting family of magpies (a native Australian bird that is quite at home in the urban environment).