Training Instructors • Informa Connect Australia
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Dr Sara Cullen

Sara is the Founder and Managing Director of The Cullen Group, a specialist organisation offering consulting, training, and publications regarding commercial agreements. She is also a Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an Associate at the London School of Economics. Previously she was a National Partner at Deloitte in Australia.

Dr. Cullen specialises in the design, negotiation, and management of commercial agreements. She has consulted to 149 commercial and government sector organisations, spanning 51 countries, in comprising $18 billion in contract value. She has facilitated contracts in a large variety of organisational areas including call centres, claims mgmt, construction, facilities mgmt, finance, food services, HR, logistics, IT, maintenance, recreational services, sales, and security. She has designed partnering arrangements, franchise-type agreements, shared risk/reward structures and incentive programs as well as traditional arrangements.

Dr. Cullen is a widely published author. She has written 19 books and 126 best practice and research publications. She has been featured in such publications as the Australian Financial Review, BRW, the Bulletin, Directions in Government, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Economics Journal, Insurance Directions, Oxford Handbook, Outlook India, and Strategic Asset Management. Her expertise is globally recognised and she performs peer reviews regarding outsourcing research for the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Dr. Cullen lectures at many universities including Melbourne, Monash, Swinburne, QUT, RMIT, Seoul and the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Dr. Cullen earned her PhD in the area of contracting from the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a Masters of Management from Melbourne Business School, and obtained a BSc in accounting from St. Cloud State University (US). She is also a Chartered Accountant (US), and a Certified Mediator.

Terry Reid

Terry has over 27 years’ experience as a barrister and solicitor and in the delivery of courses on a variety of legal and commercial topics, covering a wide range of audiences.

After his studies Terry spend a period in the banking and finance sector advising banks on a range of financing transactions he entered legal practice working in the corporate/commercial areas. During this time in legal practice he was engaged in teaching at universities and he now mixes teaching with legal consultancy.

Terry’s legal practice has focused on business law, contracts and corporations’ law, and has been involved in providing advice on a wide range of business transactions. His clients have ranged from small businesses owned by individuals to large publicly listed companies.

Terry regularly advises the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and Governments’ on business law reform. As well as working in Australia and New Zealand he has worked extensively in South East Asia and the Pacific. This advisory work includes the provision of advice to governments on business law policy, design of reform programs as well as drafting legislative instruments.

Combining an exceptional legal mind with business experience, Terry’s courses are delivered with a very high degree of interaction with participants gaining an insightful view of how the law can be beneficial in their business.

Terry regularly provides courses for professional organisations, public and private sector clients, advising on topics such as contract law, legal compliance in the business sector and regulatory reform in financial markets.

Alana Dowley

Alana is the Legal Services Director of Encore Legal Pty Ltd. After several years in practice, Alana recognised that most disputes could and should have been averted before reaching lawyers. Therefore, she began training industry groups and revolutionised legal service delivery to adopt a more mentoring and consulting model.

Alana runs training courses in contract law, contract management and dispute resolution – recognising that up-skilling in these industries is a crucial part of service provision that has been long neglected by the legal profession.

The consulting and mentoring that Alana and her team offer to clients also includes advice on tenders, contracts, claims and disputes. Alana endeavours to impart knowledge, understanding,

systems technology and expert advice into industry to improve the standard of contract management to increase efficiency, promote good practice and minimise costly disputes.

Sean McCarthy

Prior to the study and practise of law, Sean spent over 20 years in building and construction in various roles featuring project management. He ran his own successful building company in Melbourne for 7 years. Here he navigated contract and site management as well as dealing with planning and regulatory issues.

Over the last decade, Sean has focused on construction, procurement, contracts and general property and commercial law in both his studies and in legal practice. He has been “in-house” legal practitioner for a major ACT government directorate providing advice across all facets of operations, and dealing with infrastructure disputes for the latter part of 2012.

Sean teaches part time at both ANU and the University of Canberra law faculties, and is currently a director at the Society of Construction Law Australia. He has written awarded papers on the

role of “ethics” within the construction industry.

Dr Hugh Outhred

Hugh Outhred is the Managing Director of Ipen Pty Ltd, a company established in 1998 to provide independent perspectives on energy, society and the environment. Hugh holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy.

Since 1988, Hugh has provided advice to governments, non government organisations, the electricity supply industry and private industry and delivered 130 training courses in 15 countries on electricity industry design and renewable energy integration for participants from governments, non government organisations, the electricity supply industry and private industry.

Hugh has contributed to the theory of electricity industry design since 1979 and to its practical implementation in Australia since the 1980’s. In 1985 and 1986, he was seconded to the government of New South Wales as an advisor on electricity competition and sustainability. In 1995 and 1996, he led a project for the National Grid Management Council to undertake electricity trading experiments to trial the proposed National Electricity Market trading rules prior to their formal implementation. In 1997, he was appointed as an inaugural member of the NSW Licence Compliance Advisory Board, a position he held until the Board was replaced as part of revised industry governance arrangements in 2001 and in 1998 he was appointed as an inaugural member of the Australian National Electricity Tribunal – a position he held until the Tribunal was replaced as part of revised industry governance arrangements in 2006. In 2008, Hugh was a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, which was published in 2011.

Hugh retired from the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales in September 2007 from the positions of inaugural Presiding Director of UNSW’s Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets and Head, Energy Systems Research Group in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.

Hugh was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley in 1994 and has held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, the University of Liverpool in the UK, the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain, Roskilde University Centre in Denmark and Murdoch University in Perth. He has been a Board member of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy, an Associate Director of UNSW’s Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems and a member of CSIRO’s Energy Flagship Advisory Committee.

Joshua Bowman

Josh completed his BEng (Elec) from the University of Newcastle in 2016. He joined Safearth in 2017 and has specialised in the discipline of earthing. Josh has provided consulting expertise to a range of infrastructure projects across many industries, including utilities, renewables rail and mining.

He is responsible for earthing projects from initial design, through to commissioning and ongoing maintenance assessment. Josh has been involved in both the design and testing of earthing and bonding systems for a number of large rail and road projects such as Sydney Metro. Josh’s current role with Safearth as a consulting engineer continues to provide opportunities for him to work across industries, and develop and assess earthing and bonding systems for many applications. Josh has experience presenting the Safearth earthing system design training courses.

Sandi Givens

Sandi has a unique ability to connect with, engage and enthuse her entire audience, irrespective of size, demographic or skill level. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and leading-edge educational and learning technologies enable Sandi to inspire people to incorporate new behaviours and attitudes in their daily lives.

With over 25 years of professional experience in training and management, her primary goal is to help people learn, rather than merely tell them what to do. For the past 14 years, Sandi has worked as a consultant and director of her own company, Knowledge-Able Pty Ltd.

Sandi is skilled in the areas of needs analysis, program design and development, customisation for individual clients and post-program coaching to ensure application of new skills and behaviours in the workplace.

Stephen Palmer

Stephen is an earthing specialist, and has extensive experience in all earthing related works including design, audit and test in industries including generators, utilities, heavy industry, mining and rail.

Stephen began his career at BHP’s Newcastle Steelworks in 1987 as a trainee. In his 12 years with BHP engineering groups he worked in a variety of sites and fields including communications, process control and automation, MMI and drives.

In 1993 he graduated in electrical engineering with honours from Newcastle University. He later received his graduate diploma in business management from the same institution.

Following BHP, Stephen spent 11 years with Energy Australia’s safearth group (now called network earthing) in a range of roles including consulting manager. He is now a director and the principal engineer of Safearth Consulting, the independent business formed following Energy Australia’s withdrawal from the external market.

Stephen has extensive experience in earthing system management, design, audit and testing, lightning protection systems and induction risk management across a range of industries.

Stephen’s work with Safearth in a rail specific environment includes work on the Sunbury electrification project – providing general earthing consulting; at the Varsity Lakes rail project (an alliance including QR) in Queensland working with remedial design and commissioning; for Railcorp he provided distribution earthing design and augmentation; Stephen also provided rail induction, hazards and a signalling interference study for a rail line situated parallel to a 330kb transmission line for Transgrid and ARTC.

Michael Williams OAM

Michael is an energy professional with 40+ years of worldwide experience particularly in gas and LNG, most recently in Australia, China and Taiwan and. He has expertise in all technical and commercial phases of the gas and LNG business, and is acknowledged by industry experts, governments and government expert committees. He has proven abilities in technical design, project development, strategy and building and leading teams.

Michael is now an independent consultant. Was a non-executive company director of Epic Energy Holdings, a gas pipeline company, and is a member of the Panel of Experts of the Western Australian Gas Review Board. Previously he had a 33 year international career with Shell, culminating as Managing Director (Gas & Power) for the Shell Companies in North East Asia.

With vast experience working with governments, Michael has been acknowledged as a major influence in for changing China’s energy policy to import LNG and to utilise gas. Locally Michael had a 3 year secondment to the Western Australian Government as Development Director for the Department of Resources Development where he liaised, negotiated with and assisted senior ministers and policy developers.

Michael’s influence on the development of energy policy in China and in Taiwan was recognised by the Energy Working Group of APEC and by the associated policy development body, APERC (Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre, based in Tokyo). For a number of years he recommended and critique energy policies developed by APERC.

Michael was the inaugural manager of the onshore treatment plant of the North West Shelf LNG Project in Karratha, Western Australia, where he set up the organisation and managed the start-up and operation of the plant. As several innovative organisational concepts were pioneered, this involved complex, successful negotiations with unions to secure their buy-in, all against a tight timeframe.

Michael has a bachelor of engineering, with honors. He is also a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Energy.

Michael was awarded an Order of Australia Medal by the Australian Government in 2015 for services to the LNG industry.

Richard Harrison

Richard is a private consultant in the field of natural gas market development with 40 years in the business and is interested also in the integration of commercial and environmental opportunities offered by the use of natural gas.

Richard was formerly with the Shell Group of Companies for 30 years. His final post was General Manager, Natural Gas and Project Development Manager for Shell in China from 1997 to 2001. His main responsibility was to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project, as well as sales and marketing of natural gas, in China.

Richard acted as the Shell delegate on the joint venture project committee of the Australian North West Shelf LNG project between 1993 and 1997. During that period he was also gained government experience in a part-time secondment to the COAG Natural Gas Taskforce (to develop a national gas regulatory regime) to coordinate and report on the deliberations of the Upstream Working Group. He served on the NWS Exploration Committee from 1985 to 1990.

Prior to that, Richard was involved in managing the application of onshore and offshore technologies for Shell’s own exploration and production program – the successful development of gas projects for base and peak load duties in the UK Southern North Sea gas province, gas and oil venture assessments in Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and deep-water gas and oil discoveries in the Philippines.

Richard has developed and currently facilitates an internationally recognised course on LNG and gas projects. He was formerly an occasional lecturer with the short course program of the University of New South Wales, School of Petroleum Engineering. Richard has a Bachelor of Science (Physics) and a Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics & Economics) from the University of Melbourne.

John Giles

John is Principal of his own company, Appleseed Engineering that provides design training related to the infrastructure industry, and training and facilitation services related to Safety in Design.

With over 45 years’ industry experience, 38 with UGL Infrastructure / Kilpatrick Green, John is a highly experienced electrical engineer with a detailed understanding of engineering principles for many industries. He has a broad understanding of civil, structural and mechanical engineering principles and practices.

Beginning as an instrument design engineer, John then held various Chief Engineer positions within UGL Infrastructure for over 30 years. In these roles, John led and maintained the high standard of engineering service for all UGL Infrastructure’s projects.

John’s wide experience covers many industries including hydro-electric, diesel generation, gas turbine power generation, HV power transmission systems, HV power distribution, water and wastewater treatment, water distribution, control and instrumentation, railway power distribution, microwave and communications networks, building services and process automation. He has been responsible for the design of several projects that won Engineering Excellence Awards.

John led the development of ‘Safety in Design’ approaches within UGL Infrastructure, introducing tools such as the CHAIR process and HAZOP/CHAZOP reviews. To date, he has conducted over one hundred Safety In Design workshops for electricity and water infrastructure projects. He has fostered the adoption of Safety in Design techniques by many major organisations.

John is dedicated to the development and continued improvement of the engineering profession. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, is a past member of CIGRE Australian Panel AP B2 and a current Member of Standards Australia Committees EL43 (AS2067) and EL52 (AS7000 and HB331).

He holds an Electrical Engineering Degree, a Physics Degree and a Master of Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales. He was nominated for Professional Engineer of the Year (2012) by UGL and was one of three finalists in the 2015 SafeWork NSW Awards for Best Individual Contribution to Workplace Health and Safety (non WHS representative).

Glyn Jones

Glyn joined the Country Roads Board of Victoria in 1959 as a newly qualified engineer at Warrnambool. For the next 30 years Glyn wore many hats in Victoria working for Vic Roads, including Regional Bridge Engineer. This involved bridge inspection, managing the maintenance and construction works, developing proposals for new structures, assisting municipalities with their structural problems and managing a precast concrete yard.

Glyn was one of the first to be called in any bridging emergency and this was highlighted in the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 when his area in South West Victoria lost about 10 major structures. In 1989 Glyn was seconded to an Australian Aid project in Indonesia for 3½ years. There, he wrote the manuals for both bridge inspection and bridge maintenance. Once these were written, Glyn travelled into the provinces teaching and implementing the manual material.

Glyn worked for 8 years as the Regional Bridge Engineer with the RTA in Western NSW. This was the home of many old large timber truss and girder structures. Many of the old traditional crafts were retained thereby employees who were highly skilled. A video was made for posterity on these skills and won a prestigious award at the National Heritage Day in Sydney in 2002.

In 2014 Glyn had an active part to play in the auditing for Queensland Rail in their far west areas in regards to their inspection, maintenance and manpower needs.

In 2015, Glyn assisted the WA Main Roads to assess their Emergency Bridging capabilities. He guided them through their refurbishing their Bailey Bridge components, designed the storage facilities for the Bailey and conducted training for the Bridge Crews.

For the last 16 years, Glyn has run his own consulting company and has specialised in bridge inspection, surveillance, determining maintenance treatments with estimates and mentoring young engineers. In this period Glyn has written a few manuals for Vic-Roads and the RTA.

Eric Maynard

Eric joined Jenike & Johanson in 1996 and is now a Vice President and Director of Education. He has published over 50 articles on the storage, flow, and pneumatic transport of bulk solids. He is the principal instructor for the “Flow of solids in bins, hoppers, chutes, and feeders” and “Pneumatic conveying of bulk solids” courses.

Eric has presented bulk material and pneumatic conveying technology at over 300 training events world-wide. He has designed more than 750 bulk material handling and conveying systems for various powders and bulk solids, with a special focus on the cement, power, and mining industries. Eric is responsible for internal training of engineers at Jenike & Johanson. Eric has particular interest in crushing technologies for minerals, as well as in the safety aspects of dust explosions and powder electrostatics. He has received certified training on dust hazards analysis (DHA; per NFPA 652 chapter 7 requirements) and can perform inspections on the unique hazards with combustible dusts such as foods, plastics, metal powders, and agricultural materials/wood. He is a member of ASME, AIChE, and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Eric received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Corin Holmes

Corin is the Operations Manager for Jenike & Johanson Pty Ltd in Perth, Australia, and is passionate about applying the science of bulk solids handling to help people and organisations succeed, especially those in the resources sector. He received his Master’s degree from The University of Greenwich and is a member of AusIMM.

The flow behaviour of bulk solids is deceptively complex and often treated with contempt during the design stage hence there are plenty of “opportunities for improvement”, in almost every industry. As a bulk solids handling engineer with 15 years’ experience, he has designed many bulk material handling and systems with a special focus in the mining industry. As such, he gets plenty of opportunity to indulge his passion, which he enjoys sharing with others! This deep practical experience combined with his accomplished and entertaining presentation style ensures that you won’t be disappointed!