WITWA & ACS-W joint event: Cloud Computing

Carolyn is a Director within the Deloitte Consulting team with a strong background in large and complex organisations at an enterprise level.  She has experience across a range of industries including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Utilities, Property Management and more recently within the Government sector.  

With her blend of technical, commercial and management experience, she has successfully delivered new business and technology capabilities through program management, product management, business development and consulting roles. 

Her capabilities extend from strategy development for entry into emerging markets, to project delivery and operational performance of systems and business processes.   Skilled in development and implementation of IT solutions, Carolyn has a depth of experience across application implementation and infrastructure projects in a range of outsourced and multi-vendor environments.

Sheryl is Principal Consultant and Director of EDICT International Consultants, and she specialises in ICT and related management consulting, including:
•    ICT, healthcare and pharmaceutical business start-up and post-start management;
•    Business development and IT systems consulting, including Cloud Computing Services;
•    Investor and grant application processes and business commercialization.

Sheryl is currently consulting for Innovation Australia, a division of AusIndustry.

Her specific expertise and skill sets have been developed and shaped over 25 years as a business manager and consultant in Africa and more recently Australasia.
Sheryl has worked in diverse public (government) and private sector business and industry, including resources (coal, gold and diamond mining), healthcare, pharmaceutical, IT, automotive, general services and community sectors.
She has particular abilities in IT/IS and management consulting, reinforced by marketing, sales, service, mentoring and investor related skills.  Her project and program management capabilities have been developed on medium through to large assignments.
Sheryl also has extensive practical work experience and has held interim executive roles with a number of clients.

Kim Wisniewski is Senior Consultant with the Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Group in Empired. He has recently joined Empired to grow their consulting team, and has hit the ground running with numerous architectural and consultative engagements around Perth. Prior to joining Empired Kim served a diverse range of roles at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, including Applications Engineer, Systems Engineer and Technical Architect. In his final twelve months he took up the Technology Evangelist role to enhance the reputation and relationship between IT and the Teaching and Learning areas in the University. He has a history of pushing standards and driving the adoption of virtualization and evangelizing emerging concepts such as Surface Computing. He has presented at conferences including VMworld, VForum, Higher-Ed Summit, and Cloud Camp and recently gave a case study at the Microsoft Surface Product launch. He is also an active contributor to the industry through social media and blogging.

Dan Zador is a Senior Associate in the Banking and Projects team at Freehills. He has advised on a range of corporate and commercial matters in both the public and private sectors throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and America.

Dan is an IT contracts specialist and has advised on and prepared an array of IT contracts, including software licences, system development and implementation agreements, service agreements, maintenance and support agreements and outsourcing agreements. In the last few years Dan has also advised on and prepared a number of IT contracts and offerings centred on cloud computing.

Justine Middleton is a Consulting Client Technical Professional in the IBM Australia Software Group and is based in Melbourne.

She began her IBM career in Perth but had already held IT-related positions in both Perth and Melbourne. She moved to Sydney in 1989 and since then has had a two-year assignment in Minnesota and returned to Melbourne at the end of 2008.  She holds an MBA from UWA and Graduate Diploma in Computing from Curtin (then WAIT).

During her career, there have been many quantum shifts in both technology and architectural approaches to solving IT problems, and although the fundamental business goals remain the same, the ways to achieve those goals have changed.

Justine has been involved in many portal implementations that involve aggregating people, processes and content into personalised portal interfaces to support collaboration in context.  Most recently, Justine has helped organisations achieve tangible business benefits through becoming Social Businesses. A Social Business is one that embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organisation—both internally and externally and can involve the adoption of both public social networking tools and corporate-based ones.

Justine is a strong believer that adopting cloud services as part of an IT strategy does not change the need for careful planning. Ownership of the full enterprise architecture including that component being hosted in the cloud is still the responsibility of the IT department.

Justine has delivered presentations and demonstrations to  many user groups, roadshows, conferences and training sessions and is also active in the Melbourne chapter of the IBM Women in Technology Networking group.