Jonathan Jooste Bio

Jonathan Jooste has international telco/ICT and commercial management experience spanning 25 years in transport, logistics and primary industries, as well as significant police specialist, military and emergency services experience.
 
His last 13 years have been spent in the field of Tier 1 telco/enterprise mobility, mobile resource management and field force automation in South Africa and Australia.
 
With Mobile Telephone Networks, South Africa, Jooste pioneered real-time vehicle tracking and mobile communications solutions in the security, maritime, petroleum and transport industry, and while with Nokia in 1997 he implemented the first SMS based smart messaging mobile banking solution.
 
In 1999 he relocated to Australia and established Australian operations for leading global vehicle tracking provider Ctrack, introducing the Australian transport industry to the benefits of real-time mobile resource management. The Sydney Harbour Olympic Command Centre (SHOCC) vessel tracking and incident management solution provided for Sydney Waterways for the 2000 Olympic Games won Sydney Waterways an Excellence in GIS Award ahead of 60,000 global entrants.
 
He brokered and deployed a pilot project in New South Wales to prove the benefits of legislated compliance monitoring of heavy vehicles using GPS technology. This pilot led to AustRoad's, National Intelligent Access Program.
 
In 2005, Jooste designed, developed and deployed an organization-wide mobile data communication solution for the New South Wales Police Force.
 
He also delivered mobile voice, video and data solutions for specialist tactical commands and operations including the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference 2007, and the World Youth Day Papal Visit 2008. He advised various Police Force ICT Boards as a mobility/mobile device subject matter expert, was a member of two Mobile Technology Steering Committees, and sat on the NSWPF Telecommunications Strategic Planning Committee.
 
Jooste lives near Sydney, and consults for corporate and government clients on enterprise mobility and mobile technology evolution. He speaks regularly at ICT conferences, most recently at Wireless World 2009 on the topic "The Power of the Practical: Avoiding the Debilitating Pitfalls of Mobility Solution Deployments".