TONIC - IT Consulting, Risk Management, Compliance, BCM, and OH&S, Melbourne Australia

Malcolm Martin
Managing Director

Strong record of successful solution delivery to Australia's top 100. Takes a "value-based" approach reflecting the strength and needs of clients. Has worked at a General Manager, executive manager level for almost 13 years. A recognized specialist in the field Risk and Compliance, OH&S and Human Resources and the application of the best of breed software technology to automate these elements of corporate infrastructure. Clients include Toyota, Tenix, ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank, NEC, Frontier Software, Australia Post, Merrill Lynch, Ericsson, and others.

Adam Sorati
Chief Technologist

Adam has had extensive experience in the IT industry working as a senior software architect. He has vast experience and expertise in database design and application, as well as advisory level experience with IDE's (Independent Development Environments) such as Delphi, JBuilder and C#Builder and consults for Tonic on projects involving J2EE and .NET frameworks and platforms. Adam has a double degree in Computers and Accounting at Monash University.

Jeremy North
Technical Director

Jeremy has vast experience in the IT Industry working in the Retail (POS and Back Office processing) and Finance (Payroll, Managed Funds and Superannuation) sectors. He has worked as lead developer on many projects and is experienced with using many of the latest technologies including Microsoft .NET. He has extensive experience using Visual Studio, Borland Delphi and JBuilder IDE's. Currently working on a project using the Microsoft .NET framework.

Roger Barrows
Software Distribution Manager

Over the past thirty years Roger has worked in Software distribution, support and education roles for many of the industries major IT companies. He is the voice at the end of the phone when our customers call and he holds a mountain of knowledge on products ranging from Uniplex through to the Borland tools our customers utilize. His aim "... is to keep our customers 'out of trouble' wherever possible".

Peter G Jeffery
Senior Risk Management Consultant

Jeffery has worked in Strategic Consulting, Project Direction, Risk Management and IT & Business Continuity Planning for over 20 years.

Peter's Risk Management experience includes providing the Department of Defence risk management consultancy, Risk Management and BCP studies for many BHP Billiton business units and acting as a Risk Management advisor for a number of other organisations including Woodside Petroleum.

Peter has a unique combination of skills to undertake BCP studies. These skills deliver a practical, pragmatic solution consistent with an organisation's business direction. He developed the original methodology for BHP's business continuity planning and has combined the CSC worldwide methodology in BCP into a Productivity Assessment tool he has developed to assist organizations to better understand their opportunities for performance improvement.

Peter's work has delivered major cost savings and performance improvement in inventory management, warehousing and distribution as well as Risk Management and process improvements.

To inquire about how we can assist in the development of effective risk management policy for your organisation or enterprise, send an email to sales@tonics.com.au

Thomas Noonan
Director

Tom has extensive bottom-line focused consulting and senior management experience linked with cost minimisation, business protection and improving performance against strategic imperatives. His achievements are emphasised by business process transformation, advanced cost management, quality management/certification, project directorship, leveraging the value and role of IT, supply chain leverage, and innovation for improving the competitive fitness of organisations.

Tom has held senior consulting and management positions over the course of his career, with his broad commercial experience spanning insurance, banking, mining and minerals processing, transport and logistics, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, petroleum, steel, utilities and government. Tom has global work experience gained in Australia, PNG, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, USA, Chile, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. He has routine access to a very broad network of consulting professionals, and he can bring their expertise to bear on client issues as required.

To compliment the extensive experience Tom brings to clients, he has strong interpersonal and coaching skills. Operating with respect and sensitivity, he really listens to clients, taking the time to understand their environment and issues to ensure the advice he gives is relevant and appropriate for long term results. He is also recognised as a leading industry thinker; having been a guest speaker at numerous conferences and with articles published in industry and IT journals.

Strengths

Strategy development, maximising IT effectiveness and cost efficiency
Business process innovation exploiting IT for competitive advantage
Full SDLC coverage for enterprise wide systems
Project management and directorship
Risk management & compliance
Advanced cost management of large IT environments
Supply Chain leverage

History

Independent Consultant. Clients include Energy Australia, Orlando Consulting, Tonic Solutions, AMES, and Fosters Group
Principal Consultant Computer Sciences Corporation. Clients include Risk Management Technologies, and BHP Billiton
Principal Consultant BHP Services - consulting to the Corporate, Minerals, Petroleum, Transport and Steel Groups of BHP and external clients
Principal Management Consultant Price Waterhouse Urwick. Clients include National Australia Bank, ANZ Bank, Australia Post, Linfox Group, Australian Dairy Corporation, Royal Women's Hospital, and Austin Hospital
Senior Manager Arthur Andersen & Co. - setting up the Insurance Industry Consulting Practice. Clients include State Insurance Office, Victoria
Chief Information Officer Hospital Benefits Association (HBA) with responsibility to leverage IT for the establishment of new products and service lines, business diversification, and major cost reduction.
Tom has a Bachelor of Science from Trinity College, Dublin.

Philip Mackey
Project Management Risk Management &
Standards Conformance Consultant

Standards Orientation:
Actively participated in development of ISO 9001 environment in BHP IT. Developed solution for ISO 14000 tracking for BHP. Experienced in Risk Management using AS4360 and AS3931. Performed Integration design and testing around MIL-HDBK-881 (WBS). Managed ISO 12207 (Software). Performed Earned Value Management based on US-DoD processes and AS4817. Developed infrastructure compliant with relevant technical standards. Managed projects in CMM environment (with strong emphasis on software Configuration & Release Management using versioned objects).

Broad Skills and Experience:
14+ years experience of successful Project and Programme Management with major global Systems Integration and Outsourcing Providers - managing projects with up to $80musd budgets and up to 70 staff. Achieved ROI up to 45%, generally 20-30%. Management covers a broad range of skills and experience, including:

The writing, negotiation and management of project documentation, including:
EOI, RFQ, RFT, tender responses, proposals, SLA, schedules, project management plans, risk management plans, budgets, logs and registers, progress reports, forecasts, PIR reports, handbooks, news articles, newsletters, procedures, presentations, metrics graphs, etc.

Determining and managing project finances, including:
whole of life budgets, transition budgets, business case development, WBS estimates, risk costing and contingency estimations, EVMS base lining and tracking, forecasting, product cost modelling, risk and contingency management, product-based reporting, international currency handling, pool allocations, accrual accounting, scope variation tracking and reporting, etc.

Technical and Quality aspects of projects and programmes, including:
performance modelling (sizing, queuing, service levels, etc.), interface specification, requirements specification and traceability, acceptance criteria, commissioning and acceptance testing, regression testing, configuration control, release and version control, auditing, risk workshops, design workshops, walkthroughs, decision-making docs, problem analysis docs, potential problem analysis docs, etc.

General Management skills applied to programmes and PMOs, including:
staff management, communications, account development, OH&S and QA management, departmental budgeting & accounting, resource planning, contract preparation & management, product documentation, KPI tracking, continuous improvement.

Methodologies:
Developed many procedures in PM planning, execution and reporting; worked with a range of existing PM methodologies (open and proprietary) eg. PMBOK, WSSDM, SOPM, Catalyst, GSMS, PROMPT, ASAP, and PRINCE2.

To inquire about how Phillip can assist your company, send an email to sales@tonics.com.au or call our Melbourne office on +613 9882 2272.