PRINCE2 Certification - Dec 2010

•  Foundation and Practitioner training and certification exams for Projects IN Controlled Environments framework. 

 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - Dec 2010

• Online assessment and consultant follow-up for the MBTI Step II assessment and interpretation. 
• My type indicator was ENTP.

CITCON - June 2010

• Continuous Integration and Testing (un)Conference
• http://citconf.com
• Participant driven workshops I took part in included 
  • test driven development
  • continuous integration and continuous deployment
  • extreme and pair programming
  • the Enterprise Continuous Integration Maturity Model

Drupal South - February 2010

• Weekend conference on
  • Drupal best practices
  • evolution and future of Drupal
  • case-studies
  • integration options
  • project management
  • Drupal 7 roadmap.

 GRIT Growth IT programme for “Tech venture CEOs” - 2007/08

• Programme led by Melissa Clark-Reynolds. 
• Pricing, Strategy, Product/Service, Marketing, Value Proposition, Niche / Segmentation.
• 6 Month programme

 Cable Car Challenge - 2008

• Entered Hire Things business into inaugural Wellington “Cable Car Challenge”.
• Of 300 business applicants was in 9 chosen to do “elevator pitch” presentation to judges (Sam Morgan, Rod Drury, Gowan Pickering, Dion Mortenson, Mark Dosser) going up the Cable Car. 
• Achieved runner-up in final awards.

 The Business Centre

• A number of single and multiple evening sessions
• Sales & Marketing
• Investment Readiness & Capital Raising
• Website Trafficology & Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Business Essentials & Planning 2007/08

 Creative HQ Business Incubation Programme -  2006-2008

• Pitched and gained entry into the Wellington Business Incubator to establish and grow Hire Things.
• Ongoing professional and CEO mentoring and training.
• Business in Residence

 Technical Training 

• SQL Windows, Cognos Reporting & Business Intelligence - 1998
• Microsoft Training (SQL Server, Web, Winforms) - 2000

 Business Analysis & Object Oriented Analysis - 1995, 1996

• 2 x 4 day training delivered by Software Education

 Project Management - 1996

• Essentials of good project management
• Balancing the pressures of Time, Scope, and Resources.
• 3 days.

 Toast Masters -  1993-1996

• Weekly public speaking
• Presentation practice
• Achieved Competent Toast Master certification

 BNI - 2006/07

• Represented Hire Things at weekly Business Networking International breakfast networking session. 
• Involved rapid pitching and longer presentations.

 Property Rennovation Projects  -  1997, 2002

• Project managed the complete redesign, gutt and internal rebuild of 2 properties.
• On budget, managed scope, supplier management.

 Lynda.com, & readings 

• Self study & upskilling
• via books, online training, CD-Rom training
  Drupal, Joomla!,
• CSS,
• PHP,
• more Ruby on Rails,
• Agile Development