Chief Technology Officer (contracted) / ICT Specialist & Webmaster
School of Thinking · Melbourne (remote, with contractors in Australia and the USA)
Ran all technology for School of Thinking as contracted CTO while still at university — built the innovation MOOC platform that onboarded six blue-chip companies, delivered half a billion email lessons and cut operating costs to a third.
Overview
School of Thinking (SOT) provides executive consulting and online innovation and thinking-skills programs to enterprise customers with 500+ employees. From July 2011 — aged about 21 and still an engineering student — Jenks was responsible for the design, implementation and operation of the organisation's technology, working with contractors and service providers in Australia and the USA. CVs title the role CTO (contracted), ICT Specialist and Webmaster.
What Jenks did
- Aligned technology with the organisation's strategy and provided technology consultancy.
- Built, maintained and upgraded schoolofthinking.org and affiliate sites and web apps; installed, upgraded and customised the content management system (WordPress).
- Migrated, maintained and upgraded IT infrastructure and servers.
- Managed email course delivery and subscriptions through email marketing systems (Aweber).
- Coordinated third-party web agencies, contractors and service providers in Australia and the USA.
- Resolved operations tickets and stayed on call for incidents — trusted to work unsupervised and on flexible hours.
Achievements
- Onboarded six Australian blue-chip companies to an innovation platform Jenks developed.
- Managed the delivery of half a billion email lessons.
- Ran two cost audits that reduced operating costs to one third.
- In 2015 School of Thinking awarded Jenks an Honorary Doctorate in Lateral Thinking in recognition of his work (an honorary, non-academic award).
Why it matters to employers
C-level technology accountability very early: strategy, vendors, budget, uptime and enterprise customers, all at once. It shows Jenks is comfortable owning outcomes end to end — and the email and CMS work is genuine marketing-technology experience.