LIFE MEMBER: KEITH REVELL From 26 October 2019, Keith retired as QJA Director after 10 years of continuous Board membership including two terms as President. The QJA owes much to Keith, who has continued the initiative of raising the QJA to pre-eminent body to lead and advocate for the membership. Through Keith’s efforts the QJA has also become a leader amongst our peer associations nationally. The 10 years served, fail to adequately demonstrate the great impact and influence Keith has made to the QJA. In addition to the 5 terms he spent as a Board Director, Keith was also the resident IT consultant and was personally responsible for the substantial improvements in the QJA’s Information Technology functionality and capabilities, including in his last year the development of the very successful e-Logbook system.
As QJA moved into the arena of a Registered Training Organisation, Keith took on the responsibility of finding a software platform to support the students and trainers. After selecting Moodle as this platform he proceeded to train and support internal staff on its use. He often flagged potential problems within our digital records management system before the issue impacted the business and actively searched out cost effective solutions. Support for MYOB and QJA document management was also provided with many “out of hours” visits to the office to resolve hardware and software issues. Keith through his leadership, established continuous professional development as one of the QJA’s core values and an integral part of the QJA business. To back this he established, assembled and maintained the comprehensive portfolio of Member and Branch Professional Development resources and made them available on the QJA website. From a Board perspective, Keith was instrumental in the use of Office 365 and, more importantly SharePoint, so that all the Board documentation as well as the entire documentation for the QJA was stored in a secure and accessible repository. Interaction with branches, members and potential members was made easy through a refreshed and easy to use website. Video conferencing became the norm for Board meetings under Keith’s guidance. Today, all Directors meet from the comfort of their own home for Board meetings. This allowed both Directors and the Business Manager to reduce travel and meeting costs.
Keith Revell, receiving his LIfe Member award
QJA Quarterly
Winter 2021| 8
