AUSTRALIA & ASIA
Key people
Trevor McDougall CIO age of 35 , however most combine their study with a full time job : they are located all over Australia , with a fair number from other countries including India , Singapore and New Zealand . Practical elements of the courses are provided by work placement partners .
CIO Trevor McDougall , who took up his post in September 2014 , delights in telling people he is a CIO with no IT infrastructure to maintain , all of his enterprise and learning platforms being cloudbased . “ By 2011 the business model embraced by most distance learning providers , was already on its last legs ,” he says . “ Clearly the internet had impacted the traditional idea of sending out workbooks and assessments and organisations like ours had set about digitising all the textbooks
McDougall is CIO at Open Colleges , and responsible for leading the Technology , Systems and Data division ( TSD ) which is responsible for “ technology as a service ” ensuring enterprise systems , infrastructure , data and architecture can respond to the needs of high-growth digital business which is expanding its core business and looking to maintain margin through alternate business models and markets . Also leading and driving digital strategy ( technology as a product ) building learning platforms and online courses which are our core to our competitive advantage . Prior to joining Open Colleges , McDougall was the Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations for Sony ( London , Sydney ) where he developed and implemented a global strategy to enable Sony to cope with the decline in physical media as the market moves to digital . He holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Information Technology and a Master of Business Administration from MGSM .
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