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 Strategic Risk Based Approach to Regulating Technologies and Vulnerabilities based on HolisTech's® Regulatory Framework presented at the 2007 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS`07), titled Risk, Vulnerability, Uncertainty, Technology and Society, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA in June 2007. Co-authored with Graham Durant-Law.

The paper outlines a strategic risk based approach to regulation based on the generic regulatory system developed with the participation of nine of Australia's premier regulatory organisations. The result is a generic strategic management paradigm of regulation and the various behavioural interactions that regulatory systems may utilise. It includes regulatory strategies that may be employed to influence how organisations and people behave, as well as other aspects of regulating, including regulatory metrics, regulatory types, and the mechanisms of regulation. The generic nature of the framework provides for its application in almost any context and to any objective. It also provides for a top-down strategic approach to risk management, an unfortunately all too rare occurrence.