Our People - Courage, Heart & Insight | Altis Consulting

John Hoffman

Proud Leader (CEO) of Altis.

John’s belief that Happy People = Happy Customers = Success, has played an important role in the success of Altis over the last few years. John brings a passion for building success through a positive company culture and 5 consecutive years in BRW's Best Place to Work in Australia demonstrates the approach works. Outside of Altis, John loves hanging out with his family and involving himself in Surf Lifesaving at Queenscliff.

Emilio

Emilio is the NSW/QLD Regional Manager with over 17 years of experience in Analytical Marketing, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He has experience in Government, Large and Small Corporates, and has strong Financial Services expertise. Emilio knows how to help any business with their BI needs. He has been a key to Altis' growth – opening the Federal Government branch before stepping into the Leadership role in NSW/QLD. Emilio loves to hang out with his family and enjoys fine wine with a Greek meal!

Katrina

Katrina is the Regional Manager for our ACT office. Katrina brings extensive knowledge of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics to her role, as well as an understanding of the Government sector. Katrina loves to keep fit outside of work with visits to the gym and cycling. In her Zen moments she grows Orchids. Katrina is happy to drive change as her favourite quote is 'the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results'!

Chris

Chris Kearns was the first employee hired by Altis back in 1998. He has held many roles over the ensuing years including Consultant, Quality Assurance Manager, Data Visualisation Practice Lead, Higher Education Practice Lead, and Sales & Account Management. Chris moved from Sydney to London in Sep 2018 to take over the leadership of the Altis UK region. Outside of work you’ll find Chris on the dance floor swing dancing!”

Mythili

Mythili is our Head of Innovation. In this role, she combines commercial acumen, customer empathy and technical diversity, to take new ideas to market. She is passionate about building relationships with people to overcome challenges and have significant experience managing and advising organisations through business improvement. She has worked across the complete project lifecycle, including managing transformation programmes, and working with organisations to develop strategic direction and roadmaps to achieve goals.
Outside of work Mythili values time with her family and is passionate about reading to expand the mind and is also an Indian classical dance teacher and performer.

Andy

Andy is the Victorian Regional Manager and is skilled across all fields of Information Management from solution architecture to delivery. Andy is also relishing the challenges of cutting edge technologies like how to get value from Big Data. Outside of work life is hectic with all the kids activities and finding time to groove to some 80s music ... well no-one is perfect.

Alex

Alex is the Country Manager for New Zealand and with the help of his team, he helps deliver business value at an affordable budget and has a wealth of expertise when it comes to Higher Education, Utilities and FMCG clients. On weekends, Alex loves to venture out with the kids and his secret past time is then posting Facebook stories about those adventures.

Ben

Ben is an experienced consultant with expertise in the field of Project Management and Team Leading - particularly in a DW/BI context. He is technically focused on DW/BI strategy and architecture, data modelling and ETL. Even though he has been accused of being a political junkie, he balances this by staying competitive with tennis, cycling and running. Ben is also a proud father of three whose place in the family pecking order has gone down one peg with the addition of each child. Wise words from Ben's favourite quote is 'Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect'.

Gokul

Gokul has worked in a broad range of industries, gaining expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, Oracle, VBA, VB.Net, requirement gathering and stakeholder management. He has a high level of technical ability and is able to quickly pick up new concepts and technologies with ease and rapidly develop competency. Outside of the office, he likes to burn off his high-energy levels (fuelled no doubt from endless caffeine) by playing volleyball as often as he can.

Natalie

Natalie is an experienced consultant with our Sydney team.

Andrew

Andrew's expertise is in Program/Project/Portfolio management – particularly in DW/BI. Andrew is also an experienced Team Leader. Outside of work Andrew puts those team management skills to good use coaching and managing his kids sporting teams. Andrew loves getting out on his bike, kicking back to some good music and creating great meals in the kitchen for his family and friends

Ian

Ian Stuart has a wealth of experience delivering Data & Analytics solutions and has a passion for helping develop others through training and mentoring. Ian is one of our Data Visualisation experts and delivers training in Power BI and Data Visualisation best practices.

In his spare time Ian is a keen paraglider pilot and he has been known to tread the boards in some amateur dramatics productions.

Julia

Julia is a skilled consultant, certified Tableau trainer and experienced in Tableau consulting and training and Pentaho. When she's not in the office, you can find Julia upside down - doing AcroYoga (partner acrobatics plus yoga) or dancing (ballroom) or fighting (American Kenpo self defence system) and of course on the beach - running, swimming, surfing. If that's not enough, she's been been spotted in the bush occasionally - camping, walking, horse riding and is also a certified Laughter yoga leader and a yoga teacher. This is done, all the while with her mantra in mind 'Work honestly, meditate every day, meet people without fear and play!'

Nadine

Nadine is a Principal Consultant with our Canberra team. She joined the consulting team with expertise in end to end solution delivery, dimensional modelling and relational database design as well as DW/BI Strategy. Nadine’s philosophy is ‘Life is too short to focus on the things you hate. Focus on what you love to do instead’ which she applies to her life by enjoying cooking, playing and laughing with her husband and two young children. When she’s not in the office, you’ll find Nadine actively involved in volunteering at her children's French-Australian bilingual school.

Daniel

Daniel is an experienced consultant with in-depth expertise in IBM Cognos and Oracle. Another of our consultants with deep experience in the airline industry. Daniel loves travel, running, the gym ... and this quote from Mark Twain: 'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do'

Florita

Florita leads our Managed Services team and is an experienced Testing Manager and Development Manager for Enterprise Data Warehouses. In her spare time, Florita enjoys traveling, photography, nature and spending time with family and friends.

Bhumik

Bhumik (Mik) is a part of our Sydney consulting team and has expertise in Microsoft SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Informatica and all round awesomeness in consulting. Bhumik has a great eye for detail and a great eye for a target - one of his passions is archery. He also likes a laugh so stand up comedy on YouTube can be a real distraction.

Berto

Berto is an experienced consultant in our Sydney team.

Sandra

Sandra is a Senior Project Manager with expertise in Project Management across a number of industries with particular depth in knowledge around the airline and airport industries. With two active daughters Sandra is kept busy out of the office, and loves the Gandi quote 'be the change you want to see in the world'.

Sook

Sook is in charge of all Financial components of our business. Outside of work, Sook enjoys spending time with her husband and children for afternoons in the park and riding bikes.

Andrew

Andrew is a Delivery Lead in Sydney with expertise in BI/DW solutions, building relationships with end-users and teasing out business requirements that are easily comprehended by the technical team. His penchant for reporting solutions is strengthened by his foundation in back-end database/ data warehouse design and development. Andrew loves spending time with his wife and young children, 'tinkering' with home theatre projects and exercising when he’s had enough sleep.

Anup

Anup is an experienced consultant with expertise in Data Warehousing, Microsoft Business Intelligence suite, MS SharePoint and Biz Talk EAI platform. Anup loves to spend time with family, take long motorbike rides or play a never ending MMORP game. Anup has a chilled attitude to life – live and let live.

Neha

Neha joined the Sydney team in May 2015 as a consultant and has over six years of experience working as a Software Developer on several technologies including Java and .NET. She has previously worked for IBM, Allianz and Cochlear.

Neha’s interests include running, cycling and traveling. In her spare time she also enjoys attending technology meetups, hackathons, creating mobile apps and websites. Recently her team came first in "SheHacks Hackathon 2015", hosted by Girl Geek Sydney and sponsored by Google and CBA; the theme was ‘Environment and Education’.

Dawie

Dawie is part of our consulting team and an expert in SQL server database and ETL, Cognos and Oracle PSQL. Dawie loves exploring the countryside with his wife and son. He also loves the Apple mantra - 'while some may see some people as the crazy ones, we see genius; because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do'.

Veronica

Veronica is our Transport and Logistics Practice Lead with over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology and over 15 years’ experience as an Information Management and Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence specialist. She has extensive hands on experience managing, architecting and delivering Information Management and Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence solutions. In addition to delivering results for Transport and Logistics clients, she has also worked on projects across a broad range of industries. Veronica’s articles have been published in DM Review, CIO.com, the Rust Report and MHD Supply Chain Solutions.

James

James is an experienced consultant with deep skills in Data Integration and loves a challenging project to sink his teeth into. Outside of work James loves being a parent and relaxing by playing some sport or listening to music.

Charmaine

Charmaine is the Head of People and Culture and is passionate about the growth and development of people and a unique company culture.

As a qualified executive coach and certified strengths coach, Charmaine helps individuals and organisations understand, connect and invest in their greatest areas of value. Charmaine supports the concept that your greatest area of strengths are what sets you apart, and it’s only when you truly lean into your strengths, can you truly achieve greatness.

On the weekends you will find Charmaine spending time with her husband, daughter whilst enjoying some wine with her (large) family and group of friends. She loves travelling, learning about new cultures and trying new food.

Guillaume

Guillaume is part of our Sydney consulting team and has expertise in BI modelling, TM1 and ETL. Guillaume is the AWS Practice Lead at Altis. He loves travelling and staying in a place long enough to discover the unexpected. Scuba and sport keep him fit and believing 'all men who achieve great things have been great dreamers' keeps him dreaming.

David

David describes his job role as 'DW/BI consultant and/or Magician'. With the depth of experience in data integration, data modelling and reporting that David has – Magician is an apt description. When not at work David loves his pets and growing wonderful vegetables. There's a food theme with David – his favourite saying is ‘cookies is a sometimes food’.

Peng

Peng is an experienced consultant interested in providing business users with easier and quicker access to their data; to support data-informed decision making. He has worked extensively across Data Warehouse Design, OLAP Cube Design, ETL, SQL, and MDX, and takes great interest in Data Visualisation and Analytics. When he’s not working, Peng enjoys a healthy life style. He loves his Yoga and Pilates, as they encourage accuracy, intelligence, commitment and dedication. Peng lives by these wise words ‘Less is More. Quality, not quantity; simplicity, not complexity.’ This is reflected in his work, his taste in fashion, his food preference and his reading choices.

Lindsey

Lindsey is part of our Melbourne consulting team and certified Tableau trainer. Lindsey brings skills in all things data-related including data migration, mapping and profiling. She works across a diversity of technology from technologies including development using Wherescape RED, Cognos, Tableau and SSAS. 'Keep calm and carry on' is her favourite motto - a motto that keeps her cool under pressure.

Rhubesh

Rhubesh is an experienced consultant and Altis' Utilities Practice Lead with expertise across data warehousing, ETL, BI and particularly Microsoft BI stack and Cognos. Rhubesh loves sharing the great food and wine of his city with his family and friends. He also loves to cook and lives by the motto of 'you miss 100 percent of the shots you never take'.

Lynn

Lynn is an experienced consultant with expertise in Data Modelling, ETL, Reporting especially using Microsoft SSIS,SSAS,SSRS, Cognos Framework Manager and Report Studio. When he’s not in the office he enjoys spending quality time with his family, cooking and driving! Lynn lives by the mantra- 'Do Your Best'.

Khai

Khai is a an experienced consultant with expertise in all aspects of DWBI, reporting tools such as Congnos, Microsoft, Informatica, Datastage and Hyperion, with experience across verticals as diverse as Telco to Education and Law to Property. When looking up from the computer Khai loves the outdoors, and with an attitude of 'it’s fun to do the impossible' – no challenge is too great.

Richard

Richard joined our Sydney team in June 2015 and is a seasoned IT professional Richard has depth of experience in FMCG, Pharmaceuticals and diverse experiences in ERP, POS, Supply Chain, Government, CRM and Digital across both on-premise and cloud architectures. His passions lie in Analytics and Information Management and how they can be applied to improve business outcomes. Richard has also attended and presented at various industry forums in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Management (BPM), Knowledge Management (KM) and more recently has plugged into the Sydney startup community through the likes of Fishburners and the Telstra Innovation Centre. Richard enjoys a passion for cooking and carpentry, some casual baseball on the weekend with a cold beer and a chili hotdog and, of course, streaming Ice Hockey from the homeland- Canada.

Margaret

Margaret is an experienced consultant with our Auckland team. Her expertise lies in Data Warehousing, Business intelligence, Data Quality and Data Visualisation and has worked for a number of Higher Education, Telco and Insurance customers for more than 12 years. When she’s not in the office, Margaret is bound to be running, playing Badminton or Volleyball.

Mike

Mike is part of our Sydney consulting team and is skilled in business analysis, Qlik and the Microsoft BI stack.

Mike has experience in implementing solutions for Transport and Logistics clients and is passionate about delivering BI solutions that support optimal decision making.

Outside of work, Mike enjoys fishing, boating and kite surfing.

Charlotte

Charlotte is part of our Head Office team.

Peter

Peter is a Delivery Lead in our Sydney team.

Charles

Charles is the Chief Information & Security Officer for Altis and works as part of our Sydney team.

Markos

Markos is part of our Sydney team.

Garry

Garry is an experienced BI/DW Consultant who enjoys working with people and businesses to make a positive difference for those people and tangible outcomes for their business. His depth and variety of knowledge and systems gives a great foundation to understand business issues and how to apply technology solve those issues.
Outside work he enjoys spending time with family and friends, overseas travel, learning Tae kwon do, DIY projects, mechanical/electrical work on cars and the odd race track day.

Adam

Adam is part of our Head Office team.

David

David is part of the Canberra team.

Monai

Monai is an innovator in Sydney with various skills of BI/DW and data visualisation in both enterprise products (SAP BOBJ, SAP BW, PowerBI) and open source products (Python, MapReduce, Chart.js, ElasticSeach). Besides the analytics area, she is also skilled in software engineering and loves to research about the problems she encountered and design solutions for them.

Outside of work, Monai loves cooking, photography, and giving advice to her friends on custom building gaming PC rigs.

Anandraj

Anandraj is a passionate developer, problem solver and who loves working on data projects. Currently he enjoys spending his time on Big Data, Machine learning and Cloud projects.

Sylvia

Sylvia works with the Sydney team as a senior consultant and has been working in the BI arena for around 15 years. She feels as comfortable with gathering business requirements as she does with converting them into creative data solutions.
Sylvia is a keen traveller with a mild theatre addiction.
Likes: charity challenges, dancing, bushwalking, and AFL.
Dislikes: brussel sprouts and accidentally squishing slugs.

Thomas

Thomas is part of our Auckland team.

Abhishek

Abhishek is a graduate consultant with our Canberra consulting team. Graduated with a Bachelor of Advanced Computing from the ANU Abhishek loves new technologies and has experience working with both Virtual and Augmented reality. In his free time, Abhishek is also a magician, you can be sure he always has a trick up his sleeve. 

Andreea

Andreea is an experienced consultant with our Canberra consulting team. She has worked for a large number of government clients and her expertise is in the field of MS SQL Server + SSRS, SSIS, SSAS and since joining Altis Power BI and Tableau. Andreea started her career as a software developer using the Microsoft development suite. Away from work, Andreea likes to travel and to enjoy the outdoors with husband and son.

Manan

Manan is a final year Information Systems student at UNSW with skills in several technology disciplines including programming, data visualisation and database management. In his free time, he likes to watch and play cricket, explore new skill areas and read fantasy books.

Cameron

Cameron is an experienced analytics consultant who has spent over 15 years helping clients capture, interpret, predict and action their data to drive business outcomes. He specialises in using predictive (machine learning/AI) and prescriptive (simulation & optimisation) analytical techniques with experience across a range of industries including transport, construction, retail, banking, mining, utilities and higher education.

Ben

Ben is an experienced consultant from Sydney who specialises in Microsoft SQL Server and BI Development as well as Data Science. With 15 years’ experience, he has a range of industries from Facilities Management, Finance and Health.

In his free time, he enjoys sport, reading and cooking

Samuel

Samuel joined the Altis Melbourne team in 2014 before re-locating to the London office in 2016. Passionate about data strategy, data warehouse best practices, and cloud computing, Samuel is committed to helping his clients make data-supported business decisions. Outside of work Samuel is a keen traveller, a lover of film, coffee snob, gym junkie, and (amateur!) chess player.

Tomas

Tomas is a Senior Consultant in our Sydney office.

Sheema

Sheema joined the Auckland consulting team in Aug 2017 after relocating from Edinburgh, Scotland with her family. Sheema brings her expertise in the field of SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS and Power BI.
When she is not in office she will be seen in some park playing with her kids.

Fadi

Fadi is a Senior Consultant in our Melbourne office.

Kent

Kent has worked across a broad range of industries, gaining expertise in DW/BI solution delivery, architecture, strategy and roadmaps, data modelling, and business analysis. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family, running, and watching sport.

Leo

Leo is a BI graduate with some experience performing data analysis in e-commerce industry. He has built up the skills with data warehouse and data visualization. After honing and executing these specialities to finish the managed services reporting solution, he joined the Managed Services Team in Altis NZ. Leo is an easy-going person who likes travelling and cooking.

Samantha

Samantha manages the Sydney Office and works as our in-house Marketing Coordinator. Her passion lies in the creative side of her role including graphic design, website management, social media and content creation.

Samantha likes art, travelling and the outdoors. She's passionate about equality, animal rights and environmental issues.

Matthew

Matt is a graduate consultant with the Canberra team. Graduating with a Bachelor of Computer Science from Monash University, Matt’s interests include app development, high performance computing, artificial intelligence and most importantly building beautiful and effective dashboards.
In his spare time, Matt loves to travel, keep active and play trumpet in different bands. He’s always keen for a Jam session!

Phil

Phil is part of the Sydney consulting team and has a strong background in both data warehousing and analysis across platforms including Microsoft SQL Server and Google Cloud Platform as well as experience in visualisation tools such as Tableau and Power BI. He enjoys playing as many sports as possible and watching the rest of them! This fuels Phil’s passion for sports data analysis and he’s often building dashboards on his favourite sports teams in his spare time.

Brook

Brook joined the NSW/QLD consulting team after relocating from New Zealand. He has experience in a range of data warehousing and business intelligence toolsets for building out analytics solutions. He is excited by the recent explosion in data volumes and challenges and opportunities it presents for modern businesses. In his free time Brook enjoys urban dance, playing guitar, and exploring the outdoors.

Michael

Michael is a Senior Consultant in our Sydney office who specialises in Microsoft SQL Server and BI/DW.
He is passionate about working with people and helping them use data to help support and drive decision making.
Outside of work Michael is an avid sport fan who loves watching and playing sport, especially soccer and basketball.

Sam

Sam is our office administrator for the Sydney HQ Team, she has recently completed her Diploma in HR management and loves to contribute what she learns towards her role with enthusiastic energy and a smile. Sam enjoys playing sports and taking on challenges that put her out of her comfort zone. Her ideal weekend would be staying in and watching movies with snacks.

Luke

Luke is part of the Auckland consulting team with a vast experience in WhereScape RED, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAP Business Objects. His prior experiences as a contract centres manager and in operational analysis enables him to help businesses deliver exceptional data insights to improve their customers' experiences.

Matheus

Matheus from our Melbourne office is passionate about Data Warehousing, Data Visualisation and Analytics and using data for the greater good. He has worked across several industries in Australia and Brazil. Outside work, Matheus loves to spend time with his family, cycling and baking sourdough breads.

Roger

Roger is a Managing Consultant in the UK team, based in London. Alongside established expertise in data modelling and the Microsoft Business Intelligence toolset, he also has growing interests in data visualisation and cloud-native solutions.

Away from work Roger spends time with his wife and daughter, seeking out sunshine, greenery and new playgrounds. He enjoys reading stories for all ages.

Philip

Philip is a Senior Consultant in our Melbourne office.

Phoebe

Phoebe joined the Melbourne Altis team in July 2019 with a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Computer Science) from La Trobe University. Phoebe’s interests include Data Warehousing, Data Visualisation and Analytics, Machine Learning, and using data for the greater good. In her spare time she likes to dance, learn languages, and spend time with family.

Eric

Eric joined the Altis Auckland crew in early 2019.
He is a data solutions specialist with a deep experience in the Microsoft BI suite; Microsoft Azure and AWS data platform.
He also possesses a sound knowledge in Big Data, RDBMS, DW, and Data Science concepts. He has a passion for working with emerging data technologies.

Deep

Deep is a Senior Consultant in our Sydney office.

Keedan

Keedan is a Consultant in our Canberra office.

Daniel

Daniel is a skilled Business Analyst and has a passion for connecting with people. He has experience developing ETL solutions, Modelling and Reporting predominantly with the Microsoft BI Stack. Daniel also loves teaching and sharing his knowledge.

Outside of work Daniel also enjoys hiking, camping, cooking, eating, video games, krav maga, tennis, snowboarding and soccer and will always put up his hand to volunteer for a good cause.

Paul

Paul is a consultant with over 15 years’ experience as a team manager, data analyst and economist with specialist skills in telecommunications and government. In his spare time, Paul enjoys playing guitar, staying fit and creating experiences with his three kids.

Nate

Nate is a consultant in our Melbourne office. He’s skilled in the Microsoft BI stack and cloud technologies, especially Power BI and Azure; and has experience in the industry of Manufacturing, Education and Utilities. It’s one of Nate’s greatest passion to transform seemingly random data into evidence-based insights which organisations can benefit profoundly from.

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” is Nate’s favourite quote. Outside of Altis, he’s always hungry for good food and foolish for groovy Jazz and blockbuster movies.

Miguel

Miguel is a Senior Consultant in our Melbourne office.

Clive

Clive is part of our IT team in the Sydney office.

Kiarnii

Kiarnii is our Digital Marketing Lead based in the Sydney Office. Kiarnii has worked in digital marketing for the past 3 years, creating & implementing detailed digital strategies for a range of multiple clients.

Jason

Jason is the Delivery Lead for our ACT office. Jason is a highly experienced Government IT leader, bringing extensive skills in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Business Analysis, with a strong understanding of the Government sector. Jason has lead and managed numerous projects, implementing continuous improvement processes and managing project deliverables and timeframes, whilst maintaining focus on meeting business outcomes.

Jason is experienced in leading multiple large teams to deliver high standards of analysis and outputs, whilst building and fostering effective working relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders across various departments and agencies to influence outcomes.

Michael

Michael is a Consultant in our Sydney office.

Mathew

Mathew is a Managing Consultant in our Melbourne office.

James

James is a Graduate consultant with our Canberra consulting team. James Graduated from the University of Canberra with a Bachelor of Software Engineering in one hand and a love for new technology in the other. Outside of work James enjoys reading, playing video games and developing miscellaneous software.

Andrew

Andrew is a Consultant in our Melbourne office.

Dane

Dane is a Senior Consultant in our Sydney office.

Andrew

Andrew is a Senior Consultant in our Sydney office.

Alex

Alex is a Senior Consultant in our Auckland office.
He is experienced data engineer and data scientist. Alex is passionate about data technologies and using statistics for interpreting data. He has enabled clients to make more informative decisions through taking advantage of their data assets.
He has deep knowledge of Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, SQL Development and Statistical Modelling. He is experienced with such tools as Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Python, R, Tableau.