Angus Arnell is a teaching professional, learning enthusiast and journeyman with a long-standing presence as a drop in the ocean of the NSW education sector. His strengths with his students have been more pastoral than academic and aimed at equipping the young people in his care to take charge of their own journeys. He is currently employed as a chemistry teacher with the Department of Education at a Northern Beaches Secondary College in Sydney. The last 12 years have been spent in independent boarding schools, working with international, regional, rural, and local youths.

Scraping through a biochemistry and physiology degree after high school ingrained an interest in science in our subject, mostly around new breakthroughs and developments. After a decade of wandering, his parents’ relocation to Hong Kong gave Angus the opportunity to grab a Graduate Diploma in Education and start working in the classroom. A home to housesit in Port Macquarie and distance education through the University of New England afforded him the time to study, surf and play rugby for the year.

Teaching work led to boarding schools, boarding schools led to Duty of Care qualifications and exchanging classrooms for dormitories. With school hours now mostly free, Angus added further qualifications in IT and postgraduate IT project management.

In 2021, the University of Technology, Sydney, encouraged Angus to undertake a Graduate Certificate of Technology. The course was developed in response to the findings of the University Research Commercialisation: Action Plan, a study aimed at supporting innovators to successfully commercialise. Angus studied full-time through Sydney's Covid lockdown and emerged with valuable foundational knowledge tailored to entering and navigating the world bazaar. The right building blocks for Enterprise Information Systems and a niche in the global digital marketplace are the outcomes of Angus’ methodology.

What is the value of this?

An analogy can be drawn from Angus’s surfboat rowing days, where the sweep would often say, “You can’t win the race with your start, but you can lose it.” To clarify, small considerations from the outset will help an innovator avoid the causes of failure that have been found to claim most new enterprises. It could prove the difference between needing and wanting to sell as an SME and watching your innovation become a unicorn or riding that unicorn as a master of your own destiny. This is where his energy is channelled outside of school time, into startups and larger operations.

Angus is based on Sydney’s lower north shore with his little female offspring; previously it was Frozen and LOL Dolls, currently it is Taylor Swift, Labubu Dolls and netball. Who knows what it will be next? He still loves surfing, rugby, his parents, sisters, and their families, and most of all his daughter. The opportunity to share his methodology is what he craves, and experience doing so is what he is looking for currently.

Angus found Meer while using an employment website, and subsequent communication with Antonio Vergara Meershon and Christopher Williamson was valuable. Having delved into the content of the publication, Angus recognised the value and enjoyment on offer and wrote a series of 6 articles on Enterprise Information Systems. Articles were published monthly from December 2024 to May 2025 and provided an easy, understandable narrative of best practice for an organisation’s digital footprint.

Working with multinationals, small- to medium-sized enterprises and start-ups has helped Angus to sharpen his understanding of where this knowledge would be most valuable, which is where he is currently focusing. His next series of articles, soon to be underway, will focus on the Global Information System, essentially the digital space shared by all enterprises and their customers. This environment contains demarcation points that define what is available to the public and customers and what needs to be maintained in-house. The journey has been a mostly enjoyable one thus far, but it is just that, a journey. Angus would say with confidence that his understanding of where Global Information Systems is best applied in the world of commerce is about to be more clearly defined as he writes the second part of his submission.