Joel Pickworth
Joel is the IT Services Manager for our organisation. He ensures we have a stable and secure IT environment to work and innovate within, so our consultants can focus on providing better products and technical solutions.
Joel also provides guidance across the business and our client-facing projects regarding current standards, security, best practices, and innovation within the IT industry.
About Joel
Following the completion of a Bachelor of Information Technology degree in Dunedin at the mid-point of 2015, Joel moved to Brisbane, Australia where he started his career as a graduate within the Queensland Governments new graduate program. Over eighteen months Joel rotated across multiple government departments and roles including development, systems engineering, telephony and data cabling, and antivirus administration. This process resulted in Joel gaining a large amount of exposure to many areas of the industry in a very large-scale environment.
At the end of this program, Joel chose to stay on with Queensland Health in a role as the senior administrator over the antivirus environment for the entire public health sector in Queensland. After several major projects including the implementation of an entirely new antivirus environment servicing one hundred thousand systems in this role, Joel moved on to a new challenge as a principal systems engineer where he took responsibility for the Intensive Care Unit servers and associated applications that operated in many of the major hospitals throughout the state. Joel then started with Abley in June 2019 after he and his family returned to live in New Zealand.
As well as having a love for almost all things technology-related, Joel is an avid homebrewer and BBQ enthusiast. Outside of work, he spends many hours brewing his own craft beer – often shared with his local homebrew club, and smoking meat on a variety of American-styled barbecues; often while juggling time with his young family.