Ronald Kohlman, Project Management Lead

Ronald brings his wealth of many years of experience in ICT to major programs in a way that supports both Program level planning and foresight, as well as quality execution, for successful outcomes.  

Ronald’s core IT competencies are in the areas of Program and Project Management, Test Strategies, Methodologies, Testing, DevOps and Service Delivery Management.  He has experience leading global program initiatives and process improvement efforts.  He considers ICT management requirements in a broader context, more than just applications and environments; and offers recommendations that extend to budgeting, scheduling, business process, resourcing, infrastructure and performance challenges.

Ronald has a depth of experience that enhances the overall team - he is a contributor, particularly in program mobilisation with the capacity and drive to get things done.  Ronald's multi-sector expertise; Banking & Finance, Utilities, Telecommunications, Oil, Government, Retail, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing; across a variety of technologies and geographic domains; means that his contributions are sound, commercially based and positive.  He is great sounding board, mentor and "can do" colleague that is willing to lend a hand when the going gets tough.  An innovative manager with a strong focus on problem solving and ability to bridge the business and technical environments, improving the capacity for ICT to support the business.  He consistently delivers against milestones.  Ronald is a team player and a key to Ronald’s success as a delivery facilitator, is his ability to communicate at all levels within the organisation.

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Sunil Goyal is a highly experienced SIAM, ITSM and Project/Program Management consultant with ~20 years’ experience. Sunil has worked in various large organisations in the private as well public sector. Sunil has achieved a Post Graduate Diploma in Telecom Management (Marketing & Strategy) & a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Economics) along with following Internationally recognised professional certifications & trainer accreditation.

Sunil started his career with India’s biggest telecom operator managing a few large accounts for end-to-end telecom services, Moved on to Head the Project Management Office at Telenor (Telecom of Norway) for ~2 years setting up & launching their India Operations. He also worked as Head of Project Management at Indus Towers Ltd (World's leading Telecom Tower Company) and set up the PMO.
Sunil has trained & coached 5000+ participants across various Australian organisations and helped them deliver better IT & Digital service experience to their customers & users. Sunil has provided coaching & mentoring services at Department of Finance (WA), Department of Defence, SA Health, NSW Police and worked as a consultant at Department of Customer Services (Govt of NSW), Fair Works Ombudsman and Department of Defence.
Sunil based on his education qualifications, professional certifications and his work experience across various large private and federal organisations has acquired a reputation and is trusted by many federal Govt agencies for his work ethic & delivery success.

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Catherina O'Leary, Change Management Lead 

Catherina has extensive professional experience in leading, designing and implementing transformational change in organisations across a number of sectors in Australia and overseas. Her diverse and varied skillset brings a valuable perspective to any executive team.

Catherina’s strengths lie in her ability to deal with high levels of complexity in a constantly changing environment where high level judgment and sensitivity is critical. She excels at translating and communicating this complexity in a manner that ensures understanding and acceptance from any audience.

Her specialties include organisational design and development, transformational change management, communication and stakeholder engagement, and governance frameworks.

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Michael Davies, Senior Consultant & Trainer

Michael has more than 30 years of experience as an IT Service Management professional and helped to introduce ITIL best practice into Australia. He has worked in the UK and Australia in various roles including: support manager, services consultant, training manager, quality manager and service management strategy lead.
Over the last 20 years Michael has used the best practice guidance of ITIL and COBIT to provide consultancy to clients including: capability assessments, improvement planning, process design, organisational reviews and the planning and design of service management operating models. In 2015 he received itSMF Australia's Lifetime Achievement award.
Additional to ITSM, Michael is also a SFIA skills framework consultant and assessor.

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Malini Jayaganesh, Senior Consultant & Trainer

Malini is a highly experienced Business Relationship Manager (BRM) who specialises in nurturing high-performing individuals and teams in government and private sector including multinational companies. As an experienced learning facilitator, she designs and delivers training programs that achieve results. Malini is the recipient of 5 Global Excellence awards from the Business Relationship Management Institute and was featured in the global list of Top Business Relationship Managers in 2019 and 2020. She is also the recipient of a Service Excellence Award from the Department of Health and Human Services for establishing strategic partnering capability. Malini is regularly invited to deliver keynotes and presentations at professional and academic forums in Australia, USA, UK and India.

Eugene de Moel, Senior Consultant & Trainer

Eugene is a senior consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in the management and delivery of IT services. He has specialist knowledge and expertise in Service Management and the application of its concepts in a pragmatic and controlled approach. In the context of the delivery of services, Eugene managed and governed projects using best-practices and his engaging and personal approach to create successful outcomes.
Eugene is also a skilful and engaging trainer and learning development manager who, based on a wealth of practical operational experience and business knowledge, has trained, coached and assisted participants in various subject domains including Service Management, Governance, Change Management, Project Management and Program Management.
With a strong background in aligning IT with business requirements, Eugene facilitates change and process improvements, using innovative ways as business-simulations and gamification knowledge to bring active learning into the realm of an organisation.
Eugene is a strong project manager and mentor with organisational change experience and quality service delivery track record. He is a bridge builder with excellent communication skills and the ability to interact at all levels within an organisation. With his positive attitude to life accompanied by a great sense of humour Eugene creates fruitful and fun work and learning environments.

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 Oswin Kakumanu, Senior Consultant & Trainer 

Oswin has 24 years of P3M (portfolio, programme, and project management), IT service, and PMO services management experience, serving both private and public sector clients and professionals, in New Zealand, Australia, and Internationally. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in business administration and he is a certified registered practitioner and approved trainer of the following best management practices: PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Management of Portfolios (MoP), Project Programme Portfolio Office Management (P3O), Management of Risk (M_o_R), Better Business Cases (BBC), Change Management, ITILv4, SAFe, and Lean Six Sigma. He is also certified in several of PMI standards such as PMBOK and The Standard for Program Management. He provides training, coaching, mentoring, and consulting services on the above best management practices.

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Karen Chua, Senior Consultant & Trainer

Karen graduated with an Engineering degree in 2000 and has more than 20 years of IT experience, of which 8 years were focused on Management training and consulting. She has been a certified ITIL Expert since 2009 and most recently ITIL Managing Professional. Karen has been a Management and Principal Consultant, providing training and consulting services to a broad customer base in various industries including Banking & Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, government agencies, Supply Chain, Education, Training & Consulting. Her extensive work in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region also includes India, China, Hong Kong and Australia. She is especially passionate about leveraging on industry standards and best practices to ensure that the businesses deliver the optimal business value to the various stakeholders. She also believes that while doing so, organisations should adopt agility and explore new ways for eg, using digital technology to transform businesses, sustain innovation and growth while balancing the risks from a highly volatile economy.