Our people
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David Husband |
David’s career has been built around his core skills in business strategy, IT and people management. With over 20 years working in both public and private sector organisations, he developed a strong understanding of the challenges of strategy and systems in sectors including utilities, banking and finance, FMCG and logistics. In 1991 he established the specialist boutique consulting firm – DHA Consulting Group (DHACG). As leader of the Strategy practice for DHACG, David decided that an emphasis on practical execution was key to clients being able to realise the real business outcomes essential to improved long-term strategic performance. Hence DHACG’s development of core competencies through the entire strategy life cycle, but particularly in the back-end phases where strategic ideas are converted into realistically challenging strategic projects. David has been requested to fill many different roles through strategy cycles –
David has added value for clients through participation in specific phases of the strategy cycle as well as facilitating the operation of the entire cycle including the design of the various activities – process, facts, facilitation, framing, insight, prioritisation and focusing. |
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Mike Bower |
Mike has over 25 years experience in the development, implementation and management of computer and business systems. Over the past 20 years he has acted in line and project management roles. Recently, Mike has worked in a role to review a company strategic plan and create a program of projects to achieve this plan. A Program Office was updated, steering committee created, and project managers developed and supported. Most recently Mike initiated and managed a Member Experience program which included design and deployment of member surveys. He is also leading an operational workflow project. Mike’s other roles have included a strategic review of application maintenance and support, and leading a development project for corporate human resources. He has also directed a significant number of SAP HR/Payroll implementation systems to many organisations in various sectors with 18 successful implementations over three years. Mike has further experience in government, banking, and the airline industry in a variety of disciplines and at senior levels. Systems experience includes finance, sales, customer management, HR/Payroll, loyalty, reservations, staff communication, superannuation, and logistics. He has a great team ethic and can handle difficult work and people situations. Relationship building, conflict resolution, and customer service are strengths. |
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Jeff Brindle |
Jeff has been active in the IT industry since 1983. His skills as a successful business program manager, project director, project manager, change manager, business analyst, quality manager and team leader have been proven in industries such as logistics, defence, banking, utilities, IT, and telecommunications. While consulting to the Department of Defence, Jeff held a Top Secret Positive Vetted security clearance demonstrating the extremely high level of trust and responsibility granted him by the Federal Government. Jeff’s strategic and tactical analysis skills complement his abilities in organisation planning, systems and business analysis, and project management. He currently holds a long term senior role in a large government organisation assisting them to re-engineer their human resources organisation, systems (including large scale SAP deployment) and business processes. Jeff interacts successfully with senior management, end users and system owners to ensure that their requirements are met in a professional, timely and practical manner. |
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Luci Husband |
Luci has over 10 years experience advising major organisations in how to better communicate both within their business and with their customers and stakeholders. Communicating within a business might include developing culture or change programs to better inspire and activate staff. Increasingly, internal communications are focused on internal stakeholder management – frequently overlooked but essential to successful change programs and projects. In the brand strategy and development space, Luci has rich and extensive experience on both client and agency side having worked with local and global brands in insurance, financial services, FMCG, superannuation, health and logistics. That experience, combined with a disciplined yet flexible approach, ensures Luci delivers insightful, pragmatic and commercial brand strategies. In addition to the above, Luci’s disciplined approach to project management in the communications and brand space makes her a valuable BA. Her strong grasp of stakeholder management ensures that projects she manages are delivered in line with expectations, on time and within budget, and most importantly, deliver true commercial value. |
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Mark King |
Mark has more than 30 years experience in the IT industry across a broad range of roles and assignments covering most industry sectors. His experience provides a balanced foundation that has successfully been applied to a variety of business solutions. Mark joined DHA in December 1993 after 5 years as a project manager in the Melbourne IT Group of one of the big four banks, with a prior 11 years in various software development and support roles at Databank Systems (now EDS) in New Zealand. In the 16 years with DHA Mark has achieved a high degree of client satisfaction in his assignments, which is evidenced by continued relationships and referrals from his clients. Mark has a demonstrated track record of successful delivery where the solutions have a critical business impact or involve a high degree of project complexity through large-scale rollout, immoveable “go-live” dates or complex technical solutions. Mark is a specialised program/project manager capable of adapting to the organisation’s culture to gain a successful client outcome. He communicates easily with executives, team members and vendors, and has excellent presentation skills. |
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Matt McIver |
Matt has over 35 years of information technology experience in the finance, utilities, airline, media and government industries. In recent years, Matt has managed and completed several large scale and complex projects for some of Australia's largest business and private sector enterprises in the finance, telecommunications, technology, health and energy sectors. These assignments encompassed a range of activities, including IT management, third party vendor selection and management, PMO establishment, QA set up and reviews, infrastructure planning and deployment, information systems planning, program management, project review, project rescue, project testing and implementation. Matt is experienced in all aspects of information technology including program management office (PMO), quality assurance, budgeting, resource management, business management planning, program and project management, project implementation, total quality management, infrastructure, technical services, systems development, system testing, disaster recovery planning. He also has extensive experience with large management of third party vendors, systems management, project management, project testing, project implementation, project tracking, resource management, resource pooling, business unit planning, transformation planning and execution. His strengths include the ability to communicate with and facilitate between all levels of people. He is extremely experienced and adaptable at implementing new processes, functions and diverse projects, and has extensive large-scale program and project management experience across all aspects of information technology. |
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Catherine Morkans |
Catherine has over 20 years of experience in change management and project management. She has worked with major financial institutions both in Australia and overseas as well as in the superannuation and utilities industries. She has proven abilities in planning and executing all aspects of program delivery. She has a strong focus on ensuring stakeholder and customer needs are understood and met, and has the ability to build and maintain successful partnerships and relationships with internal customers and third parties. Catherine has a strong reputation for delivering results and value to the business by ensuring that activities that are undertaken are aligned to the strategic focus of the business. Catherine has managed project portfolios of up to $50 million, which included the selection of projects that aligned with strategic and business goals, achievement of required returns, and the allocation of resources and funding. In particular Catherine has a track record in both successfully establishing new programs and teams, and rescuing and transforming those that are under-performing. Catherine has worked with businesses to identify and implement improvements to their projects to enhance the chances of success. Results of reviews included major directional changes in projects, improvements in governance, and introduction of innovative changes. A key result on all projects was improvement in communication and understanding between project, technology and business areas due to the participative review approach. |
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Alan O'Connor |
Alan has over 27 years in project management, systems development, deployment and support. Alan has experience in the delivery and management of both business and IT solutions. He has enabled significant business benefits through the successful delivery of a wide range of projects with a value of over $5 million. He has experience across multiple sectors, including financial services, utilities, retailing, manufacturing, transport, and health. Alan has managed a wide range of projects to support significant business changes. These have often involved the coordination of multiple projects, vendors, and internal teams. Alan uses his experience and pragmatic approach to deliver the best value solutions to the business sponsor. One of Alan’s key strengths is his ability to succeed through collaboration and coordinated delivery across multiple teams. He has a strong and disciplined approach to risk and scope management and he is able to successfully manage complex projects with highly detailed deliverables. Alan has the ability to manage delivery of projects with tight deadlines dictated by compliance requirements or regulatory financial penalties. Alan excels at liaising between the business and IT providers (internal or external). |
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Mike Richardson mike_richardson@dha.com.au |
Mike has over 30 years experience in the areas of strategic information systems planning, business process re-engineering, project and program management, business analysis, and package selection and implementation. After securing tertiary business studies qualifications on a graduate business scholarship, Mike gained entry as a Fellow of the Australian Insurance Institute, prior to developing his career in IT. Mike has extensive experience in using technology to provide business solutions for major organisations, predominantly in the finance, services, telecommunications and utilities industries. Mike is also trained in TQM facilitation, and high-performance team building techniques which he uses consistently in all consulting assignments to achieve excellent outcomes for our clients. |
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Roy Thompson roy_thompson@dha.com.au |
Roy has over 20 years experience in the design, development, implementation and support of business-driven IT solutions in the finance and utilities industries. He has been involved across a wide range of IT activity, including the development of strategies that recognise future requirements, the implementation of infrastructure and procedures to support current operations, and the design and management of programs to enable change. In recent years, Roy has managed and completed projects for some of Australia's largest business and private sector enterprises in the finance, professional services, utilities, insurance, education and logistics sectors. These assignments involved a range of activities, including:
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Anh-Dao Vlachos anhdao_vlachos@dha.com.au |
Anh-Dao’s professional skills include project management, corporate strategy and governance, knowledge management, and quality assurance. Anh-Dao is professionally accredited in project management, holding both PMP (Project Management Professional) and PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner qualifications. Anh-Dao’s twelve years of professional career history encompass a broad variety of enterprise and divisional initiatives, within companies that span the IT, pharmaceutical, postal, and superannuation industries. She has worked in both the business and IT; in several instances she was instrumental in building better working relationships between these two functions. Her background in quality assurance and governance provides Anh-Dao with a solid foundation to deliver workable, high-quality outcomes within the usual constraints of time, cost and scope. Anh-Dao quickly proves her value in any project and becomes a ‘go to’ person who can be relied upon to achieve results. Anh-Dao demonstrates flexibility and versatility in her professional capacity, and is able to work independently as well as an integral team member. She combines excellent management and relationship-building skills with an astute analytical mindset. Anh-Dao’s communication and presentation skills are outstanding. Her ability to distil and present key information concepts in a readily understandable format is particularly valued. Some of the projects that Anh-Dao has worked on include:
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