David Collett

I am a freelance IT Application Developer and Trainer

I have worked as an application developer, trainer, mentor and tutor for over 15 years, including:

I specialise in providing inexpensive, effective IT-based solutions to Not-For-Profit organisations

My clients have included:

My own company delivering training and web based solutions.

A not-for-profit organisation providing health services to marginalised people.

My own company providing web based solutions to small to medium enterprises

Leading online careers site

Leading online careers site

Leading online careers site

Producer of recruitment advertisements

Producer of web sites, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations and colour printing

Producer of Yellow Pages phone directory

I developed a secure online system to allow the New Horizon’s Mental Health Program to upload and share client referral forms with members across several different organisations.

I developed a training calendar to allow the Training Coordinator at ISCHS to advertise and manage in-house training courses, including allowing staff to make bookings online.

I developed a student registration system at ISCHS to allow the Human Resources Manager to manage the process of student placements.

I ran a project which enabled social workers to send supportive SMS messages to their clients via a web interface.

I developed an Excel spreadsheet which allowed the owner of Pink Lou Lou to calculate the cost of creating jewellery both within Australia and overseas.

I developed a web-based phone directory and in/out board system. Organisations which have purchased and set up the boards include:

While consulting to the Red Cross:

I provide group and one-on-one training in the Microsoft Office suite - PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook - to staff members.

I provide ongoing support and development for the ISCHS website, intranet and applications including application development, website development, training and consulting services.

I developed the following websites, many based on the DotNetNuke content management system. My work included developing the graphic design, writing the content and performing search engine optimization on the sites.

Through consultation with departments across the organisation, I developed a system for standardising the folder structure and the naming conventions used for documents and files across the organisation

Working across multiple levels of the organization, I re-sorted the existing documents and files into the new structures, and delivering training and presentations across the organisation to stake holder committees, staff and managers.

The result was described as having turned a dog’s breakfast into a system where people could actually find documents.

I redesigned the ISCHS Intranet providing it with a better navigation, a more comprehensive structure, and the ability to capture statistics on how it was being used.

I developed web-based libraries within the Intranet to manage the ISCHS forms, logos and templates.

I implemented a search engine on the organisation's network drives to enhance the sharing of information across the organisation. Roughly 16 searches were performed every day by staff to find relevant information.

I created an ISCHS acronym dictionary to allow people to look up unfamiliar organisational terms and increase cross-program communication.

I created a universal booking system to allow staff to book cars, rooms, interpreters and equipment. As well as making staff’s life easier, the application produced usage reports for external and internal use, and is used to optimise the use of facilities across the organisation.

I created a web-based internal phone directory and in/out board which allowed staff to indicate whether they were in or out the building and the time they would return. This tool saved ISCHS over $100,000 every year by converting time that was being wasted in looking up phone numbers into productive time.

I created the ISCHS internet site - http://www.ischs.org.au - including writing the content, creating the graphic design, creating and coding the structure using DotNetNuke and performing Search Engine Optimisation on it. With the site, I created a web-based services directory to promote and display the services the Community Health Centre offer.

In an ISCHS flagship project in which over 700 clients answered a 12 page questionnaire, I, working with a statistician and admin staff, developed and implemented a system to convert the paper questionnaires into a database. I also provided input and direction in to the structure of the project to help ensure it was a success.

Training and assessment accreditation

Equivalent to a BSc, the course covered Web Development, Java, OO, Software Engineering, UI development and Network Protocols. I achieved a High Distinction in every subject, including coming top of my class in 4 subjects.

Achieved First Class Honours - the highest possible mark in the honours year

Practical course covering writing and editing articles, desktop publishing and magazine publication.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing work with our web and all that you contribute to the ISCHS. We are lucky to have you.

Thankyou card - Robbi Chaplin, CEO, ISCHS

Continue to be wonderful, lovely, smart, proactive, collaborative, intelligent, helpful, understanding, patient, a truer sincerer heart in IT I have yet to meet. It could be great if you could bottle a little DC and give everybody a dose of DC on a regular basis.

Performance Appraisal - Colleague, seek.com

Dave is highly respected by his peers, manager and business stakeholders for his level of commitment to the team and his positive and proactive attitude to all development and non-development tasks.

Performance Appraisal - Manager, seek.com