About

Hello! My name is David M Williams and I am an international consultant and author, based in Australia.

I have more than 30 years of professional IT experience, including over 15 years of senior and executive management experience. I am also an author with several thousand published articles in print and online. These include under my name as well as ghostwriting for tech company executives.

What I can do for you …

Besides developing strategy and running IT teams, I specialise in

Leadership
  • building high-performing teams – and was recognised as the SolarWinds IT Mentor of the Year for 2021
  • turning around and transforming companies, large and small, with challenging IT and organisational constraints
  • vendor and contract review and management
Data and information
  • moving data into actionable insights, extracting secrets out of the toughest of databases
  • Establishing business intelligence platforms
  • Authoring and automating comprehensive, timely and effective reports
Communication

I am working (slowly) on a book, Be The CIO.

Various other places you can find me online:

  1. This blog
  2. The Wired CIO
  3. The Linux Distillery
  4. LinkedIn
  5. Twitter
  6. Other miscellaneous articles