Shane McMordie is a freelance online university teacher and educationalist.   His clients include the MBA programmes of the Universities of Durham and Liverpool.   He teaches strategy, project management and e-commerce, and supervises masters dissertations.  As well as online teaching, he contributes to the development of several of his clients' programmes.

When he's not doing that, he's an IT consultant specialising in architecture and solution design.  His domain expertise is in telecom, including mobile and internet, with a focus on OSS/BSS.  The stuff he does spans enterprise architecture, technical architecture, strategic IT, design, project management, consulting, analysis and business transformation. 

Shane has a low opinion of the IT industry.  The computer scientist Brian Ferren famously described technology as “stuff that doesn’t work yet”.  But someone has to make it work.  A few years ago Shane walked into the office of a new client.  A co-worker, Tim M, summed up his job as follows: “we push complex IT projects forward in all sorts of ways”.  Shane claims he has never heard a better description of what he does in IT.

Education: MBA (Durham), MSc in Computing (Queens, Belfast)
Qualifications: TOGAF 9, PRINCE2, Cisco networking accreditations
International IT career experience: UK, Germany, USA, Belgium (all at least one year)
Languages: English, French, German
Strengths: holistic approach, international empathy, analytical skills, excellent writing, modern software knowledge
Affiliations: BCS member, PCG member
Work in progress: Postgraduate Certificate - Developing Professional Practice in Higher Education
Work in progress: PhD exploring the business value of IT investment

You can email Shane.   You're welcome to follow him on Twitter.   You can also read his IT blog and his online teaching blog.

The artwork below is by Addie Juell.  Does it represent a complex closed system, comprising multiple components whose relationship both to themselves and to their environment is undefined yet integral to the purpose and functioning of the system?   Shane has no idea.   He just liked the picture.