Martin Cleaver

Current

Chair, Publicity at WikiSym 2009
Founder at Blended Perspectives Inc

Past

Wiki Consultant (Contract) at Entrebahn.com
Contributor - strategy, planning and software development at TWiki and Foswiki
Senior Manager at Helix Commerce International

Manager at Arthur Andersen
Programmer at Reuters

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Education

Melbourne Business School
McMaster University
Rotman School of Business

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Martin Cleaver’s Summary

Broadly speaking, I seek a Knowledge Management consultancy role, with a home base in Toronto. My MSc thesis project ignited my imagination of the possibilities of being able to deeply integrate and traverse people's intellectual capital: my consulting career at Andersen taught me practical rigour and deep skills to implement enterprise application integration solutions; and my MBA broadened my understanding to allow me to garner a holistic view of what strategy means and taught me how organisational culture can be used to harness innate entrepreneurial spirit that otherwise gets increasingly dampened as companies grow. I am confident that I can bring these together to generate insight and competitive advantage in the KM space.

I'm open to a range of roles, but a primary objective is to develop a better understanding of the KM vendor space, the niches that the vendors occupy, and the value drivers that make them competitive.

Martin Cleaver’s Specialties:

Middleware, Enterprise Application Integration, Wiki, TWiki, Concept Mapping, MBA, Computing Science

Martin Cleaver’s Experience

Chair, Publicity

WikiSym 2009

(Public Relations and Communications industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

WikiSym 2009 is the 5th Annual International Conference on Wiki technologies and their uses.

My responsibilities at WikiSym are to raise awareness and get the community to support the publicity for the conference.
Founder

Blended Perspectives Inc

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Knowledge Management using Enterprise 2.0 techniques.

Deep specialists in Distributed Systems and Distributed Organizational theory, corralled using complexity theory. Wiki consulting since 2001.
Wiki Consultant (Contract)

Entrebahn.com

(Management Consulting industry)

2008 — February 2009 (1 year)

- oversee the conversion of marketing and strategy documents into Wiki format
- built a wikiapplication to facilitate creation of Value Propositions and generation of Value Maps from the structured content stored in the strategy documents.
Contributor - strategy, planning and software development

TWiki and Foswiki

(Management Consulting industry)

2001 — 2009 (8 years)
Senior Manager

Helix Commerce International

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

May 2005 — April 2007 (2 years)

Helix is a small boutique knowledge management strategy house. Helix specialized in catalyzing innovation by blending strategic, organizational and technological interventions. I led Helix's Wiki practice, mapping Helix's strategies into the Web 2.0 world and delivering the technology needed to make them happen.
Manager

Arthur Andersen

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 1998 — December 2001 (4 years)

Specialised in Enterprise Application Integration. Clients included: Banco Santander Centro Hispano, British Sky Broadcasting, Ciba Speciality Chemicals, Australia New Zealand Investment Bank, British Nuclear Fuels,
* Comprehensive understanding of Workflow products; Integration Architect; BSkyB: responsible for message broker based integration approach. Defined and managed the software configuration for development, test, and production architectures. Banco Santander: Validated TIBCO architecture at both local and global level.
* Promoted from Consultant to Manager; Initiated and ran internal project to select and setup team knowledge management system. Phase two ran over four months to formally adopt the system into Andersen infrastructure, I led a team of ten to implement.
* Extensive Java (In 2000, Bookmark Teckchek for Java 2 Proficiency rated accuracy at 83rd percentile speed at 96th percentile of test takers).
Programmer

Reuters

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Online Media industry)

October 1995 — March 1998 (2 years 6 months)

I was one of only four graduates that the Reuters Technology Group recruited

Reuters Web, Reuters London, 1997
· Participated in the design and coding of a single sign-on system for Reuters Web.

1996: Reuters Market Data, Reuters Hong Kong,
· Designed and coded a multi-tier Java Satellite-to-Triarch Reuters Market Data bridge.

1996: Reuters Web, Reuters London,
· Designed and coded a Java web wandering robot to feed Verity search engine.

Martin Cleaver’s Education

Melbourne Business School

MBA , Specialising in Implementation of Knowledge Management Strategies , January 2003 — May 2004

Elected Student Council representative; instigated and chaired the official student community website. (http://www.mbssrc.com)
McMaster University

MBA Unit , Unit In Knowledge Management , September 2003 — December 2003

I participated only in the P727 Knowledge Management course under Professor Nick Bontis.
Rotman School of Business

MBA , Exchange Student , September 2003 — December 2003

I participated as an exchange student, specialising in Implementation of Strategy, Organizational Design, Entrepreneurship and Marketing Of High Technology products.

Representative for the business school incoming Exchange Students

A- Grade Average
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

MSc , Computer Software and Systems Design , September 1994 — September 1995

Database design, VLSI design, Networking, Parallel Architectures, Theory of Concurrency, Performance Evaluation, Reliability & Distributed Systems. Thesis: Web-based, multi-user Concept Mapping software implementation.

I was selected to be one of only 4 technology graduates that Reuters UK International Technology Product Group employed.

Activities and Societies:

Computing Society, CSoc
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

BSc , Computing Science , September 1991 — June 1994

President University Computing Society 1991-1992; I re-founded and grew society from a hard core of 20 Computer Science students to 160 people. Established the committee that grew membership to 260 in the years that followed.

Activities and Societies:

Computing Society, CSoc