John Wise Email & Phone Number

I started this firm with partners in 1985 when deciding to leave merchant bank (Australian International Finance Corporation Ltd) where I was Chief Manager.A restructure in 1995 found me and my wife in sole control of this entity which held a stake in another company Syscorp Pty Ltd. I disposed of the Syscorp stake in 1998.Wise Strategies Pty Ltd. is my.

Family Farm

My wife and I operate a 320 acre Angus beef production property in the Strathbogie ranges. Have experience driving Caterpillar and CASE crawlers, Tractors, ploughing, seeding, mowing and haymaking.And I like beef!

Melbourne CBD

Thought I would have a go at making a difference in this space. I have been developing BI solutions (primarily reporting models and cubes) in an agile environment using the powerful tools available in this space to compress the time and cost of getting a usable result. Its a prototyping process, direct discussions with users, analysis of the data, quick.

The Postal Strategic Business Unit is the largest division of Australia POST and Australia's largest logistics service provider. With dual reporting to the General Manager IT and Manager Strategy & Architecture the role involves architectural co-ordination of a range of projects with a typical capital expenditure of $90M p.a.

My own company contracted my servces to Dowling Consulting Pty Ltd who in turn contracted my services to their clients.

An architecture role involving several projects:Managed Logistics Optimisation (MLO) involved the implementation of GLog G3C (now Oracle TMS). I introduced a canonical messaging protocol based on International Standards through Web methods to integrate Legacy IBM mainframe applications with the TMS.Bluescope Steel manufactures approximately 10M tonnes of.

President is an annually elected position and chairs the Club's board of directors (Committee). As President I took the principal role in employing the current Kelvin CEO and am immensely proud of his performance.I left the board in 2009 but was asked to rejoin it in 2010.

ASPECT Computing under Lindsey Cattermole was one of the great places to work. She sold it KAZ Group which was subsequently purchased by Telstra. Major Roles included:Project manager - ATO Electronic Commerce InterfaceProject manager / Architect - Australia POST POSTBillpay on the InternetProject manager / Architect - MYOB MPowered transactional.

The IT Consulting Group sounds very grand but was actually a small group of technically orientated consultants under partner Wayne Talbot.

AIFC was a consortium Merchant Bank actively involved in the Australian short term money market with a medium term lending and leasing portfolio. While there I designed and built Australia's first dealer driven money market application. It was very popular among both dealers and back office personnel and contributed about $300K annually to AIFC's bottom.

I was recruited by CSA in the UK and initially worked on CSA's AMP business (AMP owned most of CSA at that time). Undertook a range of assignments for Federal Government including Public Service Board, Dept of Immigration, Dept of Overseas Trade. Moved to Melbourne in 1976 and worked on applications for State Insurance. Appointed Branch Manager in 1977.