Adrian Colquhoun
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Julian Sharp
I have known Adrian since he worked with SharePoint in the UK and we collaborated on a number of projects. Adrian reached out to me to support the architecting of systems at Mine. Adrian had a thorough grasp of the challenges faced and the potential solutions that could be employed. It was great to work with Adrian to envisage how Dynamics could assist as he understood the capabilities and was able to translate those against the myriad of issues. We were able to have very creative and fruitful discussions as a result. I would recommend Adrian to those who have complex needs as well as straightforward ones.
Steve Peschka
I’ve worked with Adrian on projects that were wide-ranging in their requirements and posed a number of significant technical challenges. He’s demonstrated a high skill level across all of the disciplines required to deliver a quality solution and satisfied customer. That runs the gamut from the role of a business analyst to understand the issues, to an architect designing a well-reasoned solution, to project manager creating specifications and delivery schedules, to developer digging into the details and building solution components. He’s handled these very different roles with skill, aplomb and good humor. Despite the variety of challenges that inevitably arise the work always stays on schedule and the deliveries result in a high degree of customer delight.
Sarah Craig
Adrian is one of those people you instantly click with. I was lucky enough to be assigned to Adrian's team when he was selected to be our SharePoint architect, dev lead, Scrum Master and just about anything else we could throw at him! Adrian's ability to deal with everything in a good-humoured, unflappable way kept everyone on the team positive, motivated and committed throughout his assignment. On top of all of this he managed to produce the most amazing documentation, liaise with all levels of the business effectively and still be up for a beer! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Adrian and sincerely hope that I have the opportunity to work with him again in the future.
Julian Sharp
I have known Adrian since he worked with SharePoint in the UK and we collaborated on a number of projects. Adrian reached out to me to support the architecting of systems at Mine. Adrian had a thorough grasp of the challenges faced and the potential solutions that could be employed. It was great to work with Adrian to envisage how Dynamics could assist as he understood the capabilities and was able to translate those against the myriad of issues. We were able to have very creative and fruitful discussions as a result. I would recommend Adrian to those who have complex needs as well as straightforward ones.
Steve Peschka
I’ve worked with Adrian on projects that were wide-ranging in their requirements and posed a number of significant technical challenges. He’s demonstrated a high skill level across all of the disciplines required to deliver a quality solution and satisfied customer. That runs the gamut from the role of a business analyst to understand the issues, to an architect designing a well-reasoned solution, to project manager creating specifications and delivery schedules, to developer digging into the details and building solution components. He’s handled these very different roles with skill, aplomb and good humor. Despite the variety of challenges that inevitably arise the work always stays on schedule and the deliveries result in a high degree of customer delight.
Sarah Craig
Adrian is one of those people you instantly click with. I was lucky enough to be assigned to Adrian's team when he was selected to be our SharePoint architect, dev lead, Scrum Master and just about anything else we could throw at him! Adrian's ability to deal with everything in a good-humoured, unflappable way kept everyone on the team positive, motivated and committed throughout his assignment. On top of all of this he managed to produce the most amazing documentation, liaise with all levels of the business effectively and still be up for a beer! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Adrian and sincerely hope that I have the opportunity to work with him again in the future.
Julian Sharp
I have known Adrian since he worked with SharePoint in the UK and we collaborated on a number of projects. Adrian reached out to me to support the architecting of systems at Mine. Adrian had a thorough grasp of the challenges faced and the potential solutions that could be employed. It was great to work with Adrian to envisage how Dynamics could assist as he understood the capabilities and was able to translate those against the myriad of issues. We were able to have very creative and fruitful discussions as a result. I would recommend Adrian to those who have complex needs as well as straightforward ones.
Steve Peschka
I’ve worked with Adrian on projects that were wide-ranging in their requirements and posed a number of significant technical challenges. He’s demonstrated a high skill level across all of the disciplines required to deliver a quality solution and satisfied customer. That runs the gamut from the role of a business analyst to understand the issues, to an architect designing a well-reasoned solution, to project manager creating specifications and delivery schedules, to developer digging into the details and building solution components. He’s handled these very different roles with skill, aplomb and good humor. Despite the variety of challenges that inevitably arise the work always stays on schedule and the deliveries result in a high degree of customer delight.
Sarah Craig
Adrian is one of those people you instantly click with. I was lucky enough to be assigned to Adrian's team when he was selected to be our SharePoint architect, dev lead, Scrum Master and just about anything else we could throw at him! Adrian's ability to deal with everything in a good-humoured, unflappable way kept everyone on the team positive, motivated and committed throughout his assignment. On top of all of this he managed to produce the most amazing documentation, liaise with all levels of the business effectively and still be up for a beer! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Adrian and sincerely hope that I have the opportunity to work with him again in the future.
Julian Sharp
I have known Adrian since he worked with SharePoint in the UK and we collaborated on a number of projects. Adrian reached out to me to support the architecting of systems at Mine. Adrian had a thorough grasp of the challenges faced and the potential solutions that could be employed. It was great to work with Adrian to envisage how Dynamics could assist as he understood the capabilities and was able to translate those against the myriad of issues. We were able to have very creative and fruitful discussions as a result. I would recommend Adrian to those who have complex needs as well as straightforward ones.
Steve Peschka
I’ve worked with Adrian on projects that were wide-ranging in their requirements and posed a number of significant technical challenges. He’s demonstrated a high skill level across all of the disciplines required to deliver a quality solution and satisfied customer. That runs the gamut from the role of a business analyst to understand the issues, to an architect designing a well-reasoned solution, to project manager creating specifications and delivery schedules, to developer digging into the details and building solution components. He’s handled these very different roles with skill, aplomb and good humor. Despite the variety of challenges that inevitably arise the work always stays on schedule and the deliveries result in a high degree of customer delight.
Sarah Craig
Adrian is one of those people you instantly click with. I was lucky enough to be assigned to Adrian's team when he was selected to be our SharePoint architect, dev lead, Scrum Master and just about anything else we could throw at him! Adrian's ability to deal with everything in a good-humoured, unflappable way kept everyone on the team positive, motivated and committed throughout his assignment. On top of all of this he managed to produce the most amazing documentation, liaise with all levels of the business effectively and still be up for a beer! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Adrian and sincerely hope that I have the opportunity to work with him again in the future.
Credentials
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M365 Platform Community - Independent Publisher 2022
M365 Platform Community (PnP)May, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate
MicrosoftJul, 2023- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Strategik Pty Ltd
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founder & Lead Consultant: Microsoft Power Platform
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Feb 2014 - Present
Experts in the Microsoft Power Platform Dynamics, & Power BI, we offer technology consulting, solutions development and resourcing in these hard to find experience and technical skills.As founder & lead consultant I am responsible for establishing and developing the Strategik business, all aspects of its operations and providing great outcomes to our customers, employees and partners in South East Queensland and beyond. I focus on technology strategy, roadmaps and the Microsoft Power Platform.I provide hands on consultancy and technology leadership through my engagements as business analyst, technical trainer, enterprise & solution architect or lead consultant. Strategik is a graduate of the Innovation Center Sunshine Coast Incubator Program (2016) and a successful recipient of a Queensland Govt Ignite Ideas Fund Award (2016). Show less
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Lead Consultant / Solution Architect - Microsoft Power Platform
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Dec 2020 - Present
Established Strategik's Microsoft Power Platform practice. Envisaging, architecting, designing and building canvas, model driven and portal apps. Leveraging Dynamics 365, Power Automate Desktop and cloud flows, Power Virtual Agents and AI Builder to create innovative internal and customer solutions. Generating training and consultancy artefacts. Defining application development best practices and application lifecycle management (ALM). Applying Microsoft Azure and professional development techniques to extend the platform. Training and mentoring junior consultants. Identifying qualified contractors and consultancy partners worldwide to strengthen the practice and increase its execution capacity. Show less
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Lead Consultant - Technology Strategy & Roadmaps
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Nov 2016 - Present
Leading Strategik's technology strategy and roadmap practice. Multiple engagements as technology executive / enterprise architect. Working with clients to assess current state, identify key issues, create alignment to future strategy and build executable technology roadmaps to raise maturity, leverage existing assets and drive digital transformation. Unpacking complex people, process and change issues. Restructuring failing teams. Providing vision, leadership and motivation. Identifying and mitigating enterprise technology risk. Working with executives and boards to join the dots between technology, strategy and business operation. Show less
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One Harvest
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Australia
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Acting Chief Technology Officer
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Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Restructured & transformed One Harvest’s failing technology team. Worked closely with the CFO to assess current state,, identify focus areas. Provided an executable technology roadmap. Recruited and handed over to a team capable of delivering it. Restructured & transformed One Harvest’s failing technology team. Worked closely with the CFO to assess current state,, identify focus areas. Provided an executable technology roadmap. Recruited and handed over to a team capable of delivering it.
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Stoddart Group
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Australia
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Construction
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100 - 200 Employee
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Enterprise Architect
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Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Enterprise architect providing current state and future state models, portfolio identification and planning to drive digitization, system simplification, consolidation and digital Transformation for Stoddarts. Implementing Phase 1 of Stoddart's technology transformation road map by leading the NetSuite ERP implementation. Providing consultancy, project leadership, solution architecture, design and change management to transform the accounts, AP, AR, logistics, warehouse and inventory functions while designing integration with upstream job management systems. Designed and built an AWS cloud-based finance automation solution, providing AI assisted OCR recognition of vendor bills, statements, and customer remittance advices, with their integration, matching and application to transactions within the NetSuite ERP Show less
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Chief Technology & Innovation Officer
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Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Executive role in Mine. Responsible for all aspects of technology, leading the technology, project and productivity teams and driving innovation to produce better outcomes for our members. Responsible for transforming the technology team, providing clear leadership, strategy and technology roadmap whilst improving efficiency and eliminating technical debt. Highlights include:- Providing strong technology leadership. - Motivating and inspiring the team (increased Gallup engagement score from 16th - 51st quartile)- Producing a comprehensive technology road map (presented to and endorse by Mine board)- Implementing technology road map initiatives (cloud migration, core technology upgrades)- Provided vision, scope, high level requirements and solution architecture for Single View of Member (Dynamics CRM 365) initiative- Created Mine's Cybersecurity program & reduced cyber risk- Increased Gartner technology capability benchmark from 1 to 2+ (above industry average) Show less
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Recreo Project Accelerator / Acting Head of Technology
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Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
In my short time as project accelerator, I was responsible for leading and transforming this previously failing project by providing the direction, motivation and momentum required to enable the project team to hit their interim delivery milestones and place them on track for a successful delivery
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Digital Atmosphere Pty Ltd
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Brisbane
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Co-Founder, Managing Director
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Jul 2012 - Jun 2014
A Brisbane based information software & solutions company building SharePoint, cloud and mobile software for the enterprise. Created consultancy business, processes and documentation Hands on consultancy, Enterprise & solution architecture, business analysis and custom software development A Brisbane based information software & solutions company building SharePoint, cloud and mobile software for the enterprise. Created consultancy business, processes and documentation Hands on consultancy, Enterprise & solution architecture, business analysis and custom software development
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Intelligent Decisioning Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder / Managing Director
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Aug 2007 - Jun 2012
A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner consultancy, specializing in providing SharePoint and Dynamics CRM, contracting and consultancy services. Bootstrapped the business from 0 to > $2,000,000/y revenue in 5 years. Responsible for company formation, location of premises, business strategy and business plans. Established internal sales, marketing and financial processes. Recruited and led technical staff (12). Formed and reported to company board. Recruited an experienced external chair to provide mentoring and guidance. Developed the id brand using social media, the company’s website and with strong participation in the UK SharePoint user group and SharePoint Saturday’s. Achieved Microsoft Gold Partner status. Solution architect and technical lead for RDMIS, the National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Information Management program (UK). Established the company’s consultancy and training businesses in Brisbane following my emigration to Australia in 2010. Authored the SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook (Packt Publishing), presenting a number of simple recipes for business users to improve their collaboration, documentation management, business processes and workflows. Designed and built a custom business intelligence portal for Queensland TAFE’s. Provided technology roadmaps and led Digital Workspace, CRM and intranet rollouts for numerous education, government and commercial customers in Australia & UK. Designed and built a custom CRM system for Glory Days (sports hospitality company). Show less
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Experian
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Information Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Developer - Experian Innovation Group
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Jun 1999 - Aug 2007
Responsible for new product innovation and software development in my specialist areas of Business Process Management, Workflow and Cloud (e-commerce). Help design and develop the e-series (cloud enablement of Experien services) , CEMS (application processing business process & workflow) & Credit Expert products. Software development in C# & Java. Responsible for new product innovation and software development in my specialist areas of Business Process Management, Workflow and Cloud (e-commerce). Help design and develop the e-series (cloud enablement of Experien services) , CEMS (application processing business process & workflow) & Credit Expert products. Software development in C# & Java.
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Zeda
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Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Analyst Programmer
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Mar 1997 - Jun 1999
Various software development assignments using COBOL, VB & Java & related technologies Various software development assignments using COBOL, VB & Java & related technologies
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Education
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2018 - 2018
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Company Directors Course, Business Administration and Management, General -
2004 - 2008
The Open University
Postgraduate Diploma, Computer Software Engineering -
1995 - 1996
The Open University
Professional Certificate, Management -
1988 - 1993
Lancaster University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Sciences -
1985 - 1988
Lancaster University
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons), Chemistry
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