Allyn J Radford

Current

Principal Consultant and Managing Director at Learn'ilities' Pty Ltd (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

GM, Standards Projects at HarvestRoad Ltd
Manager, IT and online services at Open Learning Australia
Manager, Concept Development at Melbourne IT

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Allyn J Radford’s Summary

Designing and implementing integrated learning and knowledge solutions that work!

The design commences with the business models and the implementation is strongly focused to towards open standards.

Allyn J Radford’s Specialties:

Concept development and then translating concepts into reality. Highly developed diagnostic skills and problem solving skills. Teamwork and leadership. Experience in education, IT, media and knowledge management. Experienced negotiator and mediator. Experienced public speaker, educator and workshop facilitator. Design and development of elearning systems, digital markets, content exchanges etc.

Allyn J Radford’s Experience

Principal Consultant and Managing Director
Learn'ilities' Pty Ltd (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; E-Learning industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Consultancy providing solution architecture for clients in education, government, aerospace and corporate sectors. Solutions are holistic and structured to deliver the optimal ROI on content across personal learning, organizational learning and knowledge management. Consulting areas include the triad of content, infrastructure and process to deliver reusability and interoperability of content. Substantial experience in standards-based implementations including SCORM, IMS, S1000D to SCORM, OASIS DITA etc. Above all else, the client's business model drives the design and implementation.
GM, Standards Projects

HarvestRoad Ltd

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

September 2003 — February 2007 (3 years 6 months)

This position involves consulting in the areas of integrated learning, knowledge management and educational technology standards, and implementation of integrated learning systems. There is a particular focus on the role of the independent repository, however, this is always informed by an holistic approach and understanding of the educational and corporate objectives. These functions have been undertaken in large international projects where the holistic design and implementation includes the interrelationships between competencies, learning objectives and object-based learning content. Current major projects are based in Australia, United States and Mexico with additional roles in projects throughout Europe and span education, industry and government sectors. There is also a strong involvement in the organisations that develop educational technology "standards", especially IMS and ADL and strong relationships with organisations S1000D, IEEE and AICC.
Manager, IT and online services

Open Learning Australia

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

March 2000 — August 2003 (3 years 6 months)

Recruited to design and manage the build of an advanced eLearning infrastructure. The platform was required to be standards-based in order to support interoperability with the 7 stakeholder universities as well as other external partner institutions and organisations. When completed, the platform was widely recognised as one of the most advanced end-to-end, SCORM-based systems that supported interoperability of data and content with the various partners. Our team designed and implemented the first example of the "SCO Fetcher" solution for cross domain scripting, resolved the separation of content and rendering and produced content development guidelines to ensure the content conformance. While technological innovation was important, the priority always remained in favour of the business challenges and the technology was simply a supporting platform.
Manager, Concept Development

Melbourne IT

(E-Learning industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

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Allyn J Radford’s Groups:

Active in LETSI. Technical and International Liaison, Co Chair of the Architecture Working Group plus some other activities. ISO SC36 Liaison activities and working groups. Member OASIS (DITA Learning and Training Sub committee),
ADL-SCORM Technical Working Group, CORDRA Special Interest Group, SCORM-S1000D alignment group, previously a Member of the Board of Directors of IMS Global Learning Consortium (until Feb 07)