Message Stick is an Australian Indigenous-owned business that has been providing services to its government and corporate clients for fifteen years. Established with the purpose of demonstrating that Aboriginal Australians can successfully own and manage a services business, Message Stick and its co-founder and CEO Michael McLeod have also made various contributions to Indigenous economic development, including business ownership and entrepreneurism.
Among Message Stick’s many Corporate, Federal and State Government customers are Departments of Prime Ministers and Cabinet, Human Services, Health, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Home Affairs, Attorney-General’s, Social Services, Finance and the Department of Environment.
Message Stick Professional Services was established in 2017, and is a software consulting and IT services business, focussed on delivering SAP-related services to its private sector and government customers. Current customers include Department of Defence, National Insurance Disability Agency, Department of Health, and SAP.
Message Stick Professional Services works with various industry and customer partners to invest in a long-term program to support the opportunity for development of digital skills for Indigenous people, thereby ensuring the full participation by Indigenous Australia in the growth opportunity through Digital Transformation.
Procuring from Message Stick
Message Stick offers a procurement vehicle which includes delivery of value-for-money services to Government. Through the expertise of the Practice Principals and consultants, with focus and experience in delivery management and governance, Message Stick services complement subject matter experts in delivering solutions envisaged by our clients
Contracts procured through Message Stick qualify for credit against targets under the Federal Government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy.
| Project Services & Change | Network & Infrastructure | Architecture / Middleware & Integration |
|---|---|---|
| Project/Programme Managers Business Analysts, Agile Practitioners Business Process Change, Technology, and Organizational Change | Systems Admin (Legacy, Mid Range, Linux & Wintel) Deployment – SCCM, Architecture, Virtualisation, IT Support, DBA’s | Information/Data Architects, Enterprise & Integration Architects, Solution & Security Architects, SOA, ESB; Togaf, SAFe |
| Data Experts | Analytics & Visualisation | Application Development |
| Big Data – Lakes, Elastic, Cloud, NoSQL – Hadoop, MapReduce, Machine learning, Functional Programmers, Data Engineers / Data Devops | OBIEE, MS SQL, Business Objects, PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau, Alteryx, R, Data Analysis, | Front End – JavaScript (Node, Angular, React & Redux) Java, C#, PHP Mobile – Swift, Android Network Specialists (Hardware & Virtualisation) |
| CRM & Other Applications | SAP | Security & Cyber Security |
| Salesforce, Siebel, SAP CRM Ariba, SuccessFactors, Work Day | Design Specialists Functional Configuration Consultants Technical Experts (Basis) Architecture | Blockchain Developers/Consultants, Security Engineers / Analysts, Network Security Engineers, Penetration Testers |
| Project Support | Cloud | Digital |
| Communications & Strategy Project Administration PMO Design & Facilitation | Azure & AWS Devops | Digital Engineers, Customer Experience, UI, UX & CX Consultants |
A key component of the Message Stick Professional Services & Contracting capability, delivered to Federal Government agencies under the auspices of the Indigenous Procurement Program, is the opportunity for agencies to have Indigenous undergraduates and graduate Interns participate in the delivery of SAP support services as part of their education and career development.
The students are required to complete a short assignment as a deliverable for their study unit
Students are required to complete certain academic assignments during and at the completion of the assigned period.
Interns are required to contribute to certain deliverables, under full professional supervision, as part of the contracted service delivery.
The students are required to complete a short assignment as a deliverable for their study unit
Students are required to complete certain academic assignments during and at the completion of the assigned period.
Interns are required to contribute to certain deliverables, under full professional supervision, as part of the contracted service delivery.
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