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So what do I actually do?

To my parents, I ‘work with computers’. To my family and friends, I work for an IT company who work with Universities. To the IT geeks I associate with, I’m an IT pretender. On my card it says Professional Services Manager. To my son I go away on planes too often.

If I had to summarise it using industry terminology, I’d say I work for a rapidly expanding eLearning Services company (who also happen to be Australia’s largest Moodle Partner, a Mahara Partner and a Sakai Commercial Affiliate) doing project management, consulting, training, ‘product evangelism’ and just about anything else that gets thrown at me. I do lots of stuff around Moodle, but I’m not a ‘Moodle guy’, primarily because I may be riding the orange Tsunami now, but in five years time I might be something compeltely different depending on what is serving the educational community best at the time (even though I hope its Moodle).

I dabble in things like rapid elearning authoring tools, web2.0 technologies and how they can be used in education and business, project management and business analysis tools, and at heart I’m probably too curious for my own good. I am a passionate believer in the broader benefits provided by open source technologies, not only to the clients I work with but to projects such as One Laptop Per Child. I try to learn something new from every person I meet, and my communication style is generally to just shut up and listen, which probably makes some people think that I’m nodding off.

Chenqui.