In his former life Kevin was a music teacher but now is a technologist and currently holds the position of National Director of Primary Health at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, and is responsible for the delivery of medical and allied health services to the Australian veteran population. 

Previously Kevin has worked as a Senior Business Analyst with Centrelink’s IT Planning and Refresh Division and as the Service Level Manager.  He has also worked with the Department of Human Services where he developed better strategies for electronic service delivery with Medicare Australia, Child Support Agency, Centrelink, Health Services Australia, CRS Australia and Australian Hearing. 

His experience in both the private and government sectors has seen him advise on smart cards (ACT government), electronic identification, converged networks, online service delivery and electronic accessibility.

As CIO of ACT Health and Community Care Kevin represented the ACT health portfolio at a range of national committees dealing with development of national health technology standards, data sets and e-health infrastructure.  He also provided advice to the ACT government’s technology provider, InTACT, on a range of health-specific technical issues.  He also headed up a team devoted to development of secure health messaging, developed privacy and consent protocols of national significance and oversaw the development of clinical systems to monitor diabetes and mental health. 

Kevin’s expertise with convergent technology, telecommunications, networks, security, customer relationship management and multi-million dollar technology procurement processes has seen him plan, build, operate and provide strategic and innovative input to government organisations such as InTACT, Geoscience Australia, Air Services Australia and many private sector and public benevolent institutions.

Kevin has worked with many organisations on disaster recovery, service level management, business continuity and network policy development. 

In May, 2006 Kevin was a participant in the 2006 Future Summit where discussions ranged from globalisation, off-shoring, corporate governance and bio-tech futures.

In his spare time Kevin teaches and plays bagpipes in a community pipe band, sings classical music, and plays guitar in both a folk and rock band.  Kevin also enjoys travel, theatre and arts and bad science fiction novels.