He is also a registered ORIC examiner and administrator. For six months in 2017, Rick was Acting CEO of the Aboriginal community-controlled Sunrise Health Service Aboriginal Corporation based in Katherine. Sunrise provides comprehensive primary health services to 4,000 Aboriginal people in a large area immediately south of Arnhem Land. It is one of the largest Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisations in Australia.

His job was to re-structure, reorganise and sustain the organisation until a new CEO was appointed. During this period, Rick was an interim director of the peak body Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT (AMSANT) for six months in 2017. During 2020 the PKKPAC RNTBC engaged Rick to assist in the restructuring of the PKKP Heritage Team in Karratha after the Juukan Gorge incident.

Rick was appointed from 2013 to 2020 by the SA Health Minister as a Council member of the Health Performance Council of South Australia, which undertook 4-year health reviews and statistical analysis of health data across South Australia and referenced the applicable health standards around Australia. Assisting in developing world-class health evaluations across South Australia. Rick has a business degree and is a certified management consultant and quality systems auditor and has worked extensively in Aboriginal aged care, community health sectors, the mining sector, Indigenous business, and Indigenous health. As a volunteer, Rick is currently the non-executive director and Chairperson of Rural Remote Mental Health Limited, a national not-for-profit mental health service provider, a former non-executive director and a committee member on the finance & performance, nominations & remuneration, strategy oversight & futures committees of Neami National a large Australia-wide mental health service NFP provider and is a board member on several other boards for Aboriginal corporations around Australia. Rick is also a non-executive director and member of the finance risk committee for Indigenous Business Australia.

He is currently a non-member independent director of the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation Trust operating in Arnhem Land and a non-member independent director of the Regional Anangu Services Aboriginal Corporation & its Trust (14 years), providing essential services to a large discrete community and outstation communities.