Walter C.-Digital Health & Education Strategist | AI Governance & Product Design | Clinical Decision-Support Specialist
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Experience
Director – Initiatives
Africa Centre for Economic Justice
- Directed AI-driven education strategies aimed at advancing legal empowerment and economic inclusion across Africa.
- Integrated micro-learning and digital literacy into socio-economic justice initiatives to empower underserved communities.
Verified Digital Instructor & Content Developer
Snapplify Teacha!
- Develop and manage self-paced digital courses focused on AI literacy and disability-inclusive education for schools and universities across Africa.
- Implement automated assessment designs, learner enrolment systems, and digital certification workflows.
Founder and Director
Syllix-One / Stratedge Learning and Publishing
Lead a micro-startup focusing on AI instructional design, digital transformation, and inclusive technology solutions for health, education, and trade sectors across Southern Africa and Australia.
Directed the design and AI-assisted build of 14 working prototype platforms spanning mental health clinical decision support, deaf education, special education, inclusive teaching, legal rights triage, SME operations, and informal trade facilitation.
Published a 20-volume AI Companion Pocketbook series distributed globally via Amazon KDP, Snapplify, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and the African Books Collective, covering educators, health professionals, parents, tradespeople, and business professionals.
Design and host mastery modules and learning paths for nurses, legal practitioners, and business executives through Stratedge Academy.
Maintain AI Literacy outreach through YouTube channel and stratedgelearn.com.
The following projects represent working prototypes and concepts developed through AI-assisted, no-code development. All platforms follow a governance posture of 'AI suggests, the professional decides' with mandatory human oversight.
Education
InclusiveEd — Special Education Decision Support AI-powered platform for Special Needs Education (SNE) teachers in the SADC region. Converts classroom observations, learner profiles, and assessment data into AI-generated lesson plans, Individualised Education Plans (IEPs), and parent-facing reports. Multi-agent architecture with daily risk dashboards and accommodation effectiveness tracking. Aligned to Zimbabwe MoPSE SNE Department and ZIMSEC structures. Built on: React, Supabase (PostgreSQL), Google Gemini AI, Progressive Web App
KudzidzisAI — University Assessment Governance Workbench Web-based tool helping Zimbabwean university lecturers redesign assessments to remain valid when students have access to generative AI. Produces three graded redesign variants (AI-Assisted, AI-Limited, AI-Resistant), scores each for workforce alignment, and generates signed, hash-stamped Faculty AI Governance Logs for departmental filing. WhatsApp-ready export for regional distribution. Built on: React, Supabase, Google Gemini AI, jsPDF, Web Crypto API Nzeve | Indlebe — Early Childhood Hearing & Language Platform Clinical decision-support and care-coordination platform following Zimbabwean children from birth through Grade 1. Consolidates hearing health, ototoxicity risk, early language development (including Zimbabwe Sign Language), and ECD progression into a single pseudonymised child record. Produces Grade-1 Handover Cards with specific classroom adjustments. Offline-first with USSD/SMS channels. Built on: React, TypeScript, Supabase, Gemini 2.5 Pro / 3 Flash, FHIR R4
SameBasis — Inclusive Teaching Decision Support (Australia) Clinical decision-support for mainstream Australian classroom teachers that connects student disability profiles, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and curriculum topics to generate moment-specific, evidence-based reasonable adjustments. Auto-logs every adjustment for NCCD compliance. Integrates UDL principles, trauma-informed practice, and cultural responsiveness for CALD students. Built on: React, TypeScript, Supabase, Gemini 2.5 Flash, IndexedDB (offline-first)
TandemLearn — Deaf Education & Real-Time Transcription Mobile-first, offline-capable platform that turns an ordinary teacher smartphone into a live broadcaster, delivering lessons as live captions, audio, translated text, or Zimbabwe Sign Language representations. Designed for load-shedding and low-bandwidth conditions. Demonstrated at Emerald Hill School for the Deaf. Built on: React, TypeScript, LiveKit WebRTC, Web Speech API, service worker architecture Health
Aperta Health — Multilingual Clinical Decision Support (Australia) AI-augmented clinical decision-support platform converting unstructured, multilingual patient narratives into structured, FHIR-aligned psychiatric documentation for Australian refugee, CALD, and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander mental health services. Supports 18 languages with cultural idiom decoding. Aligned to MBS Items 2715/2717, RACGP Refugee Health Guidelines, and Australasian Triage Scale. Includes SEWB overlay with 13YARN crisis integration. Built on: React, TypeScript, Supabase, Gemini 2.5 Pro / 3 Flash, Google Cloud Speech, Twilio
Nzwisiso — Mental Health Decision Support (Zimbabwe) Community digital health tool for frontline workers in Zimbabwean primary care to interpret mental distress and initiate documented, non-specialist interventions. Automates Mental Status Examinations, auto-scores validated screening tools (PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, MMSE, PSQ, PRIME-R-5, WHODAS 2.0), and suggests ICD-10/11 and DSM-5 codes with cultural idiom recognition for Shona, Ndebele, and other regional languages. Built on: React, TypeScript, Supabase, Gemini 2.5 Flash, FHIR R4
ASILI — Infant & Young Child Feeding Decision Support (Zimbabwe) Offline-first mobile-web tool helping Community Health Workers convert structured assessments into personalised, culturally appropriate complementary-feeding plans for children aged 6–23 months. Deterministic rule-based engine reconciling biological, cultural, economic, seasonal, and nutritional constraints using ~30 Zimbabwean indigenous foods. Pilot instrumentation built in for feasibility research. Built on: React 19, Supabase, IndexedDB, PWA architecture CarerAware — Young Carer Recognition & Support (Australia) Privacy-first, school-based platform designed to identify and support young carers in Australian schools — children providing unpaid family care. Creates a school-side decision-support layer without forced disclosure, generating de-identified evidence for policy. Aligned to the National Carer Strategy 2024–2034 and Carer Recognition Act 2010. Built on: React, TypeScript, Supabase, Gemini 2.5 Pro / 3 Flash, WCAG 2.2 AA
Business, Legal & Community
StratedgeOS — Lightweight ERP for SMEs Browser-based ERP suite consolidating CRM, finance, HR, procurement, operations, and reporting for small and medium enterprises. Includes a Situational Awareness Engine with cash-flow forecasting, multi-currency procurement comparison, compliance monitoring, and load-shedding scheduling. Designed for volatile-market contexts.
Tengesa4Profit — Informal Trade Management Progressive web application digitising informal trading operations in Zimbabwe's street-vendor economy. Combines inventory management, multi-currency profit tracking, and an AI business assistant adapted for low-connectivity and semi-literate user environments. Icon-driven mobile-first UX.
LexAfrika Legal — Sovereign Legal Intelligence Platform Zero-storage legal triage platform for Southern Africa. Returns structured five-step legal briefs from plain-language intake. Employs an Adversarial Hallucination Immunisation Protocol (AHIP) to verify every AI-generated statute citation. Multilingual (English, Shona, Ndebele, Chichewa, isiZulu). Includes a 48-Hour Rights Clock and cryptographic Evidence Locker.
GrantFlow Engine — AI Grant Discovery & Proposal Drafting Full-stack application automating grant discovery, eligibility checking, and proposal drafting by linking professional profiles to live global funding opportunities.
SecondStart — Student Reintegration Support (Australia) Decision-support application managing structured reintegration of Australian students returning from suspension or exclusion. Generates risk assessments, return plans, teacher briefing cards, and 4-week monitoring trackers. Trauma-informed and NCCD-compliant.
Business Development Consultant
Borrowdale Dandaro Hospital
- Evaluated clinical and administrative operations during an institutional ownership transition to identify efficiency gaps.
- Conducted rapid needs assessments for nursing staff and produced structured recommendations for in-service training prioritisation.
Mental Health & Wellbeing Specialist
Wellways Australia
- Coordinated comprehensive service networks for clients under Australia's NDIS framework, connecting them with clinical and vocational resources.
- Identified systematic under-representation of African and refugee-background clients in mainstream mental health services, prompting investigation into linguistic and cultural barriers to access.
- Facilitated skill development programmes using adult learning principles and monitored progress via outcome-based indicators.
Academic Officer / Mentor / Administrator
La Trobe University
- Conducted teaching assessments and provided academic guidance, mentoring, and welfare support for students in Health Sciences and Tertiary Enabling Programme.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary academic and clinical teams to manage counselling referral pathways and administrative workflows.
English Language Tutor for Migrants
Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE
- Assisted new immigrants within the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), focusing on language, numeracy, and acculturation skills.
Business Development Officer
The Work Lab
- Managed educational software product development and conducted quality assurance to ensure digital tool efficacy.
- Conducted training for clients
- Research into the Tasmanian logstics industry labour workforce
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Summary
Australian-trained mental health and education specialist with over a decade of frontline clinical and academic experience, now focused on AI governance, product strategy, and AI-assisted prototyping for underserved populations across Southern Africa and Australia. Directs the design of clinical decision-support tools and inclusive learning platforms for culturally and linguistically diverse communities, translating domain expertise into working prototypes through AI-assisted, no-code development environments. Combines frontline mental health practice with formal AI ethics and governance training to build safety-first, culturally grounded digital tools. Published author of 20+ AI application guides across education, health, legal, and trade sectors, distributed internationally via Amazon, Snapplify, Apple Books, and the African Books Collective. Creator and host of AI Literacy content on YouTube, with outreach through stratedgelearn.com.
Skills
- Ai Strategy & Clinical Governance: Llm Integration Strategy, Ai Safety Framework Design, Prompt Architecture, Organisational Ai Maturity Assessment, Human-In-The-Loop Governance, And Explainable Clinical Decision Support.
- Health Informatics & Clinical Decision Support: Psychiatric Assessment Workflow Design, Mental Status Examination Automation, Icd/Dsm Coding Alignment, Culturally Idiom-Aware Diagnostic Tooling For Low-Resource And Refugee Health Settings.
- Digital Learning Architecture: Modular Curriculum Design, Competency-Based Assessment Frameworks, Scorm/Xapi Readiness, Inclusive Edtech For Disability And Deaf Education.
- Inclusive Design & Cultural Localisation: Multilingual Platform Adaptation For African And Refugee Contexts, Trauma-Informed Interface Design, Accessibility Standards (Wcag 2.2 Aa) For Neurodiverse And Sensory-Sensitive Users.
- Ai-Assisted Product Design & Rapid Prototyping: End-To-End Product Design For Saas And Pwa Concepts, Specifying Database Schema, Role-Based Access Control, And Offline-First Data Strategies, Then Building Functional Prototypes Through Ai-Assisted, No-Code Development Environments.
- Regulatory & Ethics Compliance: Who Mhgap, Nice Guidelines, Ndis Frameworks, Australian Mbs Billing, Nccd Standards, Zimche Alignment, Medical Device Software Governance.
- Content Development & Publishing: Author Of 20+ Published Ai Application Guides; Digital Course Design For African Educators; Ai Literacy Youtube Channel Host.
Languages
Education
Monash University
Graduate Certificate of Counselling · Counselling · Australia
Counselling
Southern Cross University
Master of Mental Health · Mental Health · Australia
University of New England
Master of Education (eLearning) · eLearning · Australia
Certifications & licenses
AI for Education
Kennesaw State University
AI: Ethics and Societal Challenges
Lund University
Build and Execute an Organisational AI Strategy
Coursera
Ethics of AI
University of Helsinki
Managing AI Projects from Strategy to Delivery
Johns Hopkins University
Trustworthy AI for Healthcare
Politecnico di Milano
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Experience
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Qualifications
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Walter is based in Harare, Zimbabwe and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Walter speaks the following languages: Shona (Native), English (Advanced).
Walter has at least 11 years of experience. During this time, Walter has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 8 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 4 months. Note that Walter may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Walter would be well-suited for roles such as: Director – Initiatives, Verified Digital Instructor & Content Developer, Founder and Director.
Walter's most recent position is Director – Initiatives at Africa Centre for Economic Justice.
In recent years, Walter has worked for Africa Centre for Economic Justice, Snapplify Teacha!, Syllix-One / Stratedge Learning and Publishing, Borrowdale Dandaro Hospital, and Wellways Australia.
Walter is most experienced in industries like Education, Information Technology, and Healthcare. Walter also has some experience in Transportation and Media and Entertainment.
Walter is most experienced in business areas like Operations, Customer Service, and Research and Development. Walter also has some experience in Product Development, Quality Assurance, and Information Technology.
Walter has recently worked in industries like Healthcare, Education, and Information Technology.
Walter has recently worked in business areas like Operations, Research and Development, and Information Technology.
Walter holds a Master in Counselling from Monash University, a Master in Mental Health from Southern Cross University, a Master in eLearning from University of New England, a Master in Teaching from Curtin University and a Bachelor in Economics from University of Zimbabwe.
Walter has 6 certificates. Among them, these include: AI for Education, AI: Ethics and Societal Challenges, and Build and Execute an Organisational AI Strategy.
Walter is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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