The Luxury of Experts by Your Side.
The BizCubed team consists of a diverse range of experiences and skill sets. You'll get superior service and solutions at every point. Our highly qualified team specialises in the expert analysis of data so you can make the best possible decisions for your business. With Business Intelligence experts by your side, you'll get expert solutions every time.
Zachary Zeus
Principal Adviser | Managing Director
- Strategic Knowledge Asset Management
- Process Design
- Agile Implementations
- Technical Training and Executive Enablement
Zachary has 15 years of experience delivering consulting, process design and business intelligence projects to small and large organisations. His experience has been primarily in the financial services industry, but has also spanned the hospitality, media and manufacturing sectors.
In identifying the key to success on these many varied projects he has focused on deploying information to people at times and in ways that make decision making simple, straightforward and intuitive. This has been through analysis of reporting processes, delivering board level scorecards, providing decision point analyses and integrating business intelligence software into business processes.
His experience at the group level of a top 10 international insurer has provided him the breadth of experience to tackle large and small projects that are focused on delivering value to clients no matter how large the business process, how complicated the organisational structure or how varied the system environment.
Projects have included case management, strategic process and technology deployments, business re-engineering, advanced analytic installations, call centre system design, surveillance system creation, SOX, anti money laundering, heat maps, scorecards, system consolidations, service oriented architecture design and deployments, and all the business processes associated with executing complex technology projects.
Achievements
Zachary holds an MBA from New York University and is a certified Pentaho trainer. His firm is a business intelligence enabler for ASX 100 companies and government agencies. He has been a guest speaker at the Australian Computer Society, the Australian Open Source Conference and the Pentaho Partner Summit.
Christian Ludlow Hyland
Business Improvement Adviser | Head of Marketing & Operations
- Corporate Communications
- Business Development and Marketing
- Executive Mentoring
- Entrepreneurship
Christian co-founded a business recognised by the Australian Financial Review as a model for the 'firm of the future'. He helped to build a technology-enabled firm that leveraged Web 2.0 to support knowledge workers in the delivery of more personalised customer services at lower cost. His advocacy for 'intelligent business' stems from a solid understanding of how important reliable business analytics are to commercial ventures.
As well as practising entrepreneurship, Christian has performed in leadership roles as an executive at Publishing & Broadcasting Limited and Text Media. He has more than 15 years of experience delivering specialised business services to a clientele that includes many of Australia’s largest public listed companies.
As a senior business adviser, Christian's focus is on enabling executives, streamlining service delivery and improving business operations.
Achievements
Christian holds an MBA in General Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW/Sydney University). His ideas on management have been quoted in BRW Magazine, The Australian Financial Review, BOSS Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Boardroom Radio, Lawyers Weekly and SKY NEWS Business. He has been a guest speaker at the Australian Managing Partners Summit and the Australian Legal Practice Management Association.
Julia Gusman
BI Consultant | Training Specialist
Julia is a Pentaho Certified Business Intelligence Consultant with more than four years of experience. She combines strong technical abilities with excellent communication skills.
Her expertise is analysing customer's requirements, business processes and technical environment then working out a BI solution that supports their processes and enhances their management capabilities.
In addition to a Masters of Science in Business Administration, Julia is fluent in three languages and has held positions in media, sales and public relations.
Specialisation
Agile project delivery methods and practices; Linux & Windows operating systems; Java EE, PHP & Javascript programming languages; Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Analysis, Pentaho Reporting, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Microsoft Office applications; MySQL, Postgres and MSSQL database application
John Ballment
Business Intelligence Consultant
John is a highly skilled Senior Systems Analyst, specialising for the last 5 years in systems integration. He has a strong background in reporting, data warehousing and ETL (extract-transfer-load) methodologies and implementations.
Over 13 years, John has held positions with Asciano Limited, Pacific National and DMR Consulting. He brings a depth of skills in application analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, version control and bug/enhancement tracking to the BizCubed team.
Specialisation
Application Life cycle Management, Integration, Data Warehousing, Billing Systems, Java, CORBA, SQL, PL/SQL, VBA, Borland Starteam Enterprise Edition (version control, release management and bug/enhancement tracking).
Aksha Kurtarkar
Business Intelligence Analyst | ETL Specialist
A Software Engineer and MBA by training, Aksha works with customers to elicit, formulate and document their business requirements into specifications. She is adept at analysing client data and building ETL transformations using the Pentaho BI Analyzer/Visualization tools. Her skills and knowledge of the Pentaho tools are also applied to supporting customers with technical cases. Aksha is a certified Pentaho BI specialist.
Aksha holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in IT from the University of Technology Sydney and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology.
Rejeena Jameela Beevi
Business Intelligence Analyst | ETL & BI Report Design Specialist
Rejeena has more than three years of experience in information technology consulting as an analyst, developer and knowledge management lead. She has a strong track record in delivering outstanding results, distinguished by excellent analytical and communication skills.
Rejeena's expertise includes Data Warehousing, Quality Assurance and Testing and UNIX Scripting as well as Pentaho Reporting and Analyzer. She has worked on Data Migration and Data Warehousing projects for large banking and financial services clients creating transformations and data mappings for the loading of the legacy data into Data Warehouse / Data Marts using ETL tools.
Rejeena holds a Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering).
Winston Lin
Business Intelligence Analyst | Social Search and Analytics Applications Specialist
Winston is an experienced Business Intelligence Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Analyst. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics plus a PhD Degree in Information Technology from Sydney University. Winston has 7 years of work experience of design and delivery IT solution to automate core business operations as well as 4 years of experience in Data Management, Reporting and Analysis.
His knowledge in database concepts and data management is extensive. He is expert at troubleshooting data analysis problems and has trained hundreds of new and junior students on analytical methods.
Winston's brings a unique perspective to projects based on his qualifications and commercial experience.
Advisers | Directors
Alastair Steel has 23 years of management experience, gained during his time at the NSW Police Force, working in investigations for several major insurance companies and as the owner of a private investigations business.For 15 years he has been passionate about the design of Management Software and the need for a simple system to manage, track and analyse data in realtime in order for businesses to make the best possible decisions.
Alastair was also involved in working parties for the development of several IMS systems in the NSW Police Service including Taskforce Investigation Management Systems and COPS an Intranet based IMS. Then as a State Investigations Manager for CGU and FAI, and as a Director of a large private investigation company, Alastair developed another three proprietary databases and a feature rich proprietary IMS system.
Stuart Guthrie has 23 years experience in software development. He has managed IT departments and led development teams of up to fifteen people. With corporate and medium to large clients, Stuart has worked in a range of languages including COBOL, 4GLs such as Speed II, APPX, Progress and Java.
His clients have included the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sims Group, IMAN Medical Insurance, DeBortoli Wines, iTree Software, the BBC, Mercedes Benz and the RTA.
During the past 7 years Stuart has specialised in Open Source software and has developed calendaring applications and reporting tools.
