About David Nimmo
David is an eclectic IT Geek / Effectiveness Fanatic / Part-time philosopher and Family Man.
Professional Overview
He’s worked for IBM since for 12 years from 1997-2010 in roles from hands-on development, team leadership, methodolgy exponent and project management, before moving in 2010 into a Principal Business Consulting role with Curam Software.
David has worked with clients in private and public sectors, in areas ranging from telecommunications, transport and banking, to human services.
Prior to IBM and Curam, David has held roles with NRMA, Suncorp and various Kodak photo labs. He also had a small number of clients for whom he performed independent IT consulting, mainly through development of MS Access applications. This was all after a five year post-university stint in youth work at the University of Queensland with Student Life.
With respect to University studies, David holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from the University of Queensland (completed 1988) and a Master of Information Technology from QUT (completed 1997).
David is certified by The Open Group as a Master Certified IT Specialist, and holds various other industry certifications including a PMP from PMI, an MCSD from Microsoft and UML certification from the OMG.
Effectiveness
David has has attempted to practice much of the Stephen Covey approach to identifying your mission, objectives and goals, and prioritising use of time and resources to achieve those goals.
In David’s case his mission has a lot to do with seeking to work out the practicalities of this passage (From Matthew 7:12 in “The Message” version of the Bible):
“Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behaviour: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get.”
Sounds straightforward, and it should be – but it turns out not to be so easy in practice… still working on it though…
