RESUME

James MALCOLM MACPHERSON

Updated February 2010

Education/early employment
BSc in earth science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1968
Post Grad Diploma (first class hons equivalent) University of Otago, 1969
Student Field Hand Kennecott Copper Corporation (HQ in Salt Lake City, Utah) 1968-69
Exploration Geologist, Kennecott Exploration (Australasia) Ltd South Island of New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea, West Australia, Queensland, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, 1969-1974
PhD candidate and funded Teaching Fellow University of Canterbury and Tutor Christchurch Polytechnic, 1975-76
PhD conferred 1978
Scientist Forest Research Institute 1977-78
Four papers published in international journals on PhD and FRI work
Okarito Lagoon, for FRI

1979 - 1986
Mid Wales, United Kingdom
Craft furniture maker, community and commercial exhibition and event promoter, twice Welsh National Eisteddfod craft/design award winner.

1986 - 1988
West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Studio furniture maker (very limited success), pioneering desktop publishing with earliest functional gear (PageMaker/Corel Draw/286 PC). Sometime community agent, local government advisor. Elected to the Te Poutini Polytechnic establishment council.

Owner/editor, The New Zealand Woodworker (previously Touch Wood)

1988 - present
Alexandra, Central Otago, New Zealand

Publisher

bespoke, vanity, sub- and semi-commercial book and magazine production, cartography, illustrations and computer graphics, trading as Macpherson Publishing.
No longer active as a publisher

Central Otago District Councillor 1990-2001 (except 1995-98 term)

Deputy chairman (1998-2001) Economic Development Committee

Member Alexandra Community Board

Project Coordinator Alexandra Futures (a community flood-recovery project with $25m funding target, $21.6m approved by the Crown, about $31m eventually spent on property purchase, construction of flood defences and community amenity).

Chairman (from 30 October 2000 to October 2001), Alexandra Flood Protection Subcommittee - the property purchase, flood protection and communuity amenity implementation committee (the scheme's "Operations" committee).

Chairman (from 31 October 2001) Alexandra Flood Protection Joint Committee (the scheme's governance or "oversight" committee)

Community and other activities

Member then chairman Otago Business Development Board (a regional economic development agency) c1990-1995. Now defunct - but here's what came next

Trustee Otago Museum, c1992-95

Trustee Heartland Otago/Southland Life Education Trust (to 2002)

Trustee Central Otago Health Inc., a community regional health services provider (to October 2001)

Chairman of Trustees Clyde Volunteer Fire Brigade/NZ Coastguard Rescue Boat Trust

Professional activities

Parliamentary Agent for the MP for Otago, post-election establishment period, 1996-1997

Communications Manager HealthCare Otago (now the ODHB) , 1997-98, occasional communications duties, 1998 - 2000

Assessor, then regional and national chairman of assessors New Zealand Business Development Quality Award, 1994-1999

Member Editorial Advisory Board, Measuring Business Excellence, a new journal published by MCB University Press in the UK.

USA Study Tour eight Baldrige winners, March 1999

Current interests

Central Otago District Mayor. Elected October 2001, re-elected October 2004 and October 2007

Elected member, Otago District Health Board, re-elected (at large, via a proportional system) October 2004 and October 2007 (by a whisker each time)

Co-opted member, Council of the Polytechnic of Otago, 2005 (re-co-opted in late 2009), term will finish with the disestablishment of the council in April 2010

Owner-producer, world-class performance excellence website, as acknowledged by the publication of record - ASQ's Quality Progress (but long overdue for a refresh!)

Writer-producer/web magazines (Award, EDGE FIRST), all available on-line, but not currently under production

International Baldrige Award advisor. From 2001 spending a few weeks each year in SE Asia. Here's a brief summary of with whom and on what. Trained as a Baldrige Examiner at Washington DC, Class of 2007 - at that tim New Zealand's first and only US qualified Baldrige examiner

Years 2000 and 2001: Chairman of Assessors, the Performance Excellence Study Awards (PESA), a New Zealand national Baldrige-origin excellence award, with applicants from the public and private sectors.

PESA National Panel Member since 1999, assessor in 2003, 2004 and re-appointed for 2005, assessor in 06, 07, 08 and 2009.

Once a columnist - regional weekly newspaper

Columnist - New Zealand Organisation for Quality.
Here's the September 2000; October; and November articles

Occasional feature and opinion writer. See the lead article in the July 2000 issue of UK quality magazine Qualityworld , and Performance Excellence in Education, a featurette inQuality Network News v10(3), 2000

Email susanandmalcolm@kinect.co.nz

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