Director, Innovation Central Melbourne
Manager, Digital Innovation Hub
Workplace Collaboration Design Expert
Jeff is experienced at co-design, systems thinking and rapid prototyping new ventures that are technology driven.
Jeff is also as an expert in collaboration hubs with years of experience in facilitating use-cases and workplace design intents for integrating technology into workplace designs, experience centres and maker-space facilities. He is currently alliance manage for Innovation Central Melbourne in La Trobe University’s Digital Innovation Hub.
As a program director, Jeff has led the development of comprehensive use cases for workplace collaboration hubs across diverse sectors. Notable achievements include socio-technical apps and a high-tech interactive display wall for the 2014 G20 summit, the establishment of the Newcrest Mining global Collaboration Hub, a commercial workplace in in the geology centre of excellence, as well as transformative educational spaces at institutions such as QUT (The Cube), Griffith University (Red Zones), and La Trobe University (Bendigo Tech School).
Jeff did the workplace technology design intents and use cases for Gartner’s Gurgaon Centre of Excellence as well as the end-to-end workplace design/construct and final install plus commissioning ISPTs award-winning Foys Arcade in Melbourne, featured on CBREs Placemakers program, and CSI’s The Pitch in New York’s Flatiron District.
Jeff is Director, Cisco Innovation Central Melbourne where he provided the use cases and workplace design intents for a new site in Bundoora as Manager of La Trobe’s Digital Innovation Hub. The work of the hub includes improving Telehealth for the Victoria’s State-wide Virtual Emergency Department was featured recently on ABC New Breakfast and on Cisco’s global new sites.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-jones-102388/
Amazon Author profile: https://www.amazon.com.au/Jeffrey-I-Jones/e/B076YR6MZW/
Jeff has worked across the spectrum of research to commercialisation many times and in a few countries: USA, Singapore, Japan, UK, Dubai, as well as Australia.