All our Principal and Lead Architects have a minimum of 20 years experience in the IT industry and a minimum of 10 and 5 years respectively working in Enterprise and/or Solution Architecture. Our current Principal and Lead architects are:

Glenn Smyth

Glenn is a Principal Architect with outstanding experience in the implementation of Enterprise Architecture and practices in support of transformational IT change programs.

The first 10 years of Glenn’s career laid a foundation for Enterprise Architecture, with a wide variety of roles spanning software development, systems programming, database administration, business analysis and project management. Having acquired specialist skills in CASE Tools, security solutions and integration technologies he remains an Australian thought leader in Service Oriented Architecture.

The latter half of Glenn’s career has been committed to architecture practices, specialising in application and integration architecture and business architecture with emphasis on business capability modelling and business process design.

Glenn is extremely passionate about Enterprise Architecture and the outcomes it can deliver. His passion is infectious and the enthusiasm he generates typically survives long after his departure.

Glenn Smyth Consultant Profile

Phil Yeardley

Phil is a Principal Architect with over 20 years experience working within the IT and consulting industry. Phil has a broad range of business and technical knowledge, management ability and pragmatic solutioning skills gained from a solid foundation in software engineering and years working as an architect and leader within the many domains.

Phil’s strengths include:

• Ability to interact and succeed at all levels of the enterprise, Phil is comfortable presenting to the board or lower levels of the enterprise.
• Excellent technical skills and industry awareness
• Excellent communication skills and business knowledge
• Full project life cycle experience, enabling him to take a leading role in any area of the change process
• Extensive knowledge of methodologies and tools, including lean/agile development techniques, enabling him to mentor colleagues and advise on the adoption of appropriate practices.
• Real-life experience in Solution, Technical and Enterprise Architecture
• BPM/SOA skills covering governance, change process modifications to support it, tools, techniques and frameworks to practically apply the concepts in a real world implementation

Phil’s specialities are: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, distributed systems, Mainframe systems. Messaging systems, Middleware (IBM and Microsoft), BPM/SOA

Paul Yeardley

Paul is a Lead Architect with over 20 years experience in the IT Industry and has worked in areas ranging from development and analysis to architecture and management.

The broad range of roles that Paul has performed over the years have given him an excellent experience base to be able to understand the different issues that companies face in today’s business and technology environment, and to assist those companies in delivering successful change programs to better align the business with technology, and meet the business outcomes.

Paul Yeardley Consultant Profile

Chris Wood

Chris is a Lead Architect for Fragile to Agile. With real practitioner experience as both Enterprise Architect and a Solution Architect in several organisations, Chris understands how vital the bridge is between these two architecture domains in order to make the architecture actionable and deliver value to an organisation.

Chris began his career in software development. His ability to understand design concepts, exposure to a variety of technologies, and an ability to converse at ease with both business and technical communities led to a natural progression into the architecture domain. Chris quickly grasps ‘the big picture’ and yet retains the ability to pay attention to detail.

In addition to architecture, Chris has a keen interest in methodologies and best practices. His previous experience as a RUP Process Engineer and an IBM Method Exponent is evident through his contribution to the Fragile to Agile Conceptual Design Process.

Chris Wood Consultant Profile

Ric Hayman

Ric has over 25 years experience in the IT Industry, spending time in everything from operations to innovation, including analysis, design and development, project management and managing development teams. As well as his IT experience, Ric has had roles in hospitality, sales and manufacturing, and has done time in voluntary sports administration. He holds qualifications in Marketing, Corporate Finance and Management, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Management. He has worked with companies of all shapes and sizes, and has recently set up businesses of his own.

Ric’s goals are to help businesses build their capabilities and make better use of their people and technologies; improve collaboration, information sharing, knowledge retention and innovation via social enterprise principles; keep up with his family and friends; and find the perfect wine.

Ric Hayman Consultant Profile

Shannon Slater

Shannon is an Architect who has been working in the IT industry for 16 years. His experience includes 7 years as an architect where he has been responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business during business transformations and legacy integration projects.

In addition to the work Shannon has done at an architecture level he has many years experience in embedding solution architecture into an organisation, designing solutions, development, leading development and design teams and providing direct consultancy services to business and partners

Shannon is very knowledgeable across a wide range of technologies and can readily identify a suitable approach to meet the business need. His ability to quickly adapt and learn in changing environments and technologies is a key strength.

Shannon has excellent communication skills with proven ability to present information about a technical subject tailored to the needs of the target audience. These skills also allow him to develop partnerships with stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation to achieve successful results.

Shannon Slater Consultant Profile

Adrienne Gosling

Adrienne has had over 25 years experience within the IT industry. During that time, she has successfully fulfilled a range of senior IT management and related project and consultancy roles in both strategic and operational contexts.  The diversity of these roles, performed at both a national and global level, include the leadership of operational functions, strategy review teams, small to large scale project teams; enterprise programs of work; and managing external vendor specialists and externally outsourced project teams.

Her responsibilities have ranged from the provisioning of infrastructure and services; establishing and managing service delivery functions; initiating and leading organisational change programs; risk identification and management and delivering solutions against expected business and financial outcomes.

Adrienne Gosling Consultant Profile