The committee plays a crucial role in addressing cybersecurity challenges and promoting best practices. These include Policy Development and Advocacy, Education and Awareness, Research and Innovation, Incident Response and Coordination, and collaboration with government.

Like many a great businesses, Nortec was started from a garage. Since 1992 Nortec have garnered many awards and worked with many awesome businesses and vendors. Nortec carry out a range of activities including consulting in Network Security, VOIP and Advanced Network Infrastructure. We have a range of ongoing Managed Service Plans.I have been in the IT industry for over 40 years, and got a fantastic grounding in work ethics in my formative years at both Westpac and IBM. Both of these companies help shape my view of how a business should be run and what I learn't has helped me create and run Nortec since 1992.I love the consulting side of the business and after 25 years experience can often see problem areas in other businesses and am more then happy to share my experience.Give me a call, I'm always up for a coffee and a chat about business growth and where technology is going.

CompTIA is a vibrant community that brings together professionals, educators, and enthusiasts from around the globe. They are 100% vendor-neutral and focus on raising the bar with regards to the whole IT Industry. They have leveraged this to provide many resources available to MSPs, including Marketing Toolkits for MSPs, an Annual State of Cybersecurity, and an annual Industry Outlook Report. There are thousands of resources available to MSPs.

CompTIA is the leading independent, not-for-profit industry body whose purpose is to represent, champion and support businesses of technology and companies in the tech industry. Globally the largest non-profit IT organisation, CompTIA has helped empower more than 2,000 premier members, 3,000 academic and training partners and tens of thousands of registered users spanning the entire information communications and technology (ICT) industry. Here in ANZ, our goal is to support the industry through education and networking opportunities, in addition to initiatives such as mentoring, philanthropy, and advancing diversity in our industry.I'm excited to work with and on behalf of companies in ANZ to deliver CompTIA's vision.

I have been asked to write a weekly technology column covering a range of topics. I am passionate about this role as I believe education around technology will both demystify and protect people. This is published in their publications The Western Weekender and Parr News.

Norris Hospitality started in 1992 as a Computer Re-seller and over the last 25+ years has gained experience in the Micros industry. Over the last 12 months we have Pos Advantage has grown significantly and has a large number of Blue Ribbon Clients which it supports. These include elite returants, large clubs and international hotel chains.Our services include* Micros POS Support – all devices* Materials Control Support and Spare parts* Opera Property Management System Support* Internet and Office / Site to Site Connectivity* Telephone* Remote Support and Programming* Micros Disaster RecoveryIf you have a Micros system and need some project work or support then we are your go to company.

Personally I believe Hosted PBX or Hosted Communications to be the way of the future for communications. There is no longer any requirement to have your telecommunications on premise. Don't just accept the proposal given to you by the major telco's. Give KloudPhone the opportunity to save you money and provide you with a phone solution with some really awesome features.KloudPhone is able to streamline your communication infrastructure, whilst at the same time giving you additional awesome features at an unbelievable price. We achieve this by replacing the equipment usually bolted on your wall and moving it to a Hosted PBX into our secure data centre. KloudPhone is successfully deployed and saving many businesses, schools and organisations money. We have achieved this by interconnecting offices/ campuses with high speed telecommunication links, allowing them to gain cost savings by consolidating their infrastructure as well as their communications through our Hosted PBX.KloudPhone was originally developed as a fibre based technology solution for two large retirement villages for Stockland and Anglicare. This required that our technology stack be robust and secure. After years of experience in this market we made additional investment and expanded our solution to encompass both the business and school markets.KloudPhone has been built based on the skills obtained by being involved in the IT industry for over 35 years.Give KloudPhone the opportunity to show you how you can have both the features of an expensive phone system at an unbelievable price. Ask us about our free one month trial?

IT EnvironmentMVS/ESA, z/OS, PL/I, DB/2, CICs, JCL, VSAM, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, RACF, SMFBrief DescriptionAt IBM Worked on Upgrades and Deployments of the WTAAS system throughout multiple countries. Final Position was Project Team Leader Y2K Upgrade for multiple countries again for the WTAAS project. For the Y2K project I was brought back into the WTAAS team as the project was not going to meet the deadline. I not only met the deadline. I saved the project over one million dollars in costs.Full DescriptionMy role was one of a Technical Project Team Leader leading a team of 20 people. I was responsible for ensuring that a wide range of IBM’s applications were Y2K ready. This consisted of creating project plans, assigning work, creating test scripts, testing, code remediation and reporting to management.Key Achievements* Successful lead of 20 people to achieve all of the Y2K remediation work on time. I was responsible for ensuring that we were able to complete all of the remediation and testing within the time constraints.* Responsible for the most successful, ever, upgrade of WTAAS, IBM’s core administration system. WTAAS is a 25-year (+) old application. As such, with that many years of maintenance, the code was extremely difficult to follow but nonetheless, we achieved zero downtime for the business. * Review and improvement of existing methodologies for detecting Y2K exposures. There were deficiencies in the processes that would have resulted in significant problems if the affected code had not been corrected.

Worked in Multiple Teams - primarily as a Programmer / Analyst - using tools including. PL1, Cobol, DB2, IMS DB/DC.