Laurence Archer PRINCE2, MSP, P3O

Laurence Archer is Director of Education Services at ALC Group and Principal Trainer in PRINCE2, MSP and P3O. Laurence is highly acclaimed as a trainer and facilitator and consistently achieves outstanding evaluations. He is regarded as one of the few top trainers in Asia-Pacific for PRINCE2, MSP and P3O. more...



Darren Dove ITIL, COBIT

Darren Dove is Course Director for ALC’s ITIL Training Program. Darren has a leading reputation as both an ITIL consultant and trainer. He has more than 20 years in the IT industry covering roles in Service Management, Training, Consulting, Project Management and Management. Organisationally, he has worked across public and private sector groups including ICT Service Providers, Mining, Local Government, Software Development, Police, Education and Health. more...



Ron Pinchen ITIL, COBIT, ISO 20000

Ron Pinchen is the ACT Branch Manager for ALC and has a leading reputation as both an ITIL consultant and trainer. Ron has over 23 year’s industry experience and has extensive experience in a broad range of IT implementation and management activities, including infrastructure management, service management, organisational change, service quality management, and business and IT alignment. more...



David Wheeler ITIL, COBIT, ISO 27001, BEF

David has over 15 years Australian and Asian experience in the operation, assessment and improvement of IT Service Management organisations. David has worked in diverse roles, from National IT/Infrastructure Manager and consultant to various managerial roles, for various IT and training environments. David’s background and experience combine a solid technical and training basis with a thorough organisational understanding of aspects like leadership, management, financial impact and people issues. more...



Dr Geoff Harmer ITIL, COBIT

Dr Geoff Harmer is an independent consultant specialising in IT governance and best practices for IT Service Management based on COBIT, ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000. He has 28 years experience in the IT industry as a lecturer and consultant and has been awarded Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP) and Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) status. Since 2001 he has been an accredited lecturer for ITIL with the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB). more...



Leo Farrelly MSP, PRINCE2, P3O

Leo Farrelly is a highly experienced, fully accredited and respected trainer in MSP, PRINCE and P3O with 10 years experience in these methods. During this time Leo led the development of a major Accredited Training Organisation in the PRINCE2 and MSP market in Australia. He has training experience in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Canada. more...



Veronika Karashvili PRINCE2

Veronika is based in Wellington, New Zealand and has an extensive background in working with NZ Government organisations in NZ and overseas. Veronika has worked on NZ Government projects in various capacities – starting as a business analyst, then progressing to the Project and Programme Management roles, later becoming a Senior Projects Advisor whilst gaining her PRINCE2 Practitioner and shortly after a PRINCE2 Trainer and MSP Practitioner certifications. more...



Michael Matthew CISA

Michael Matthew is extremely qualified in the area of IT and Audit having worked as both a finance (accounting) and IT professional for most of his career including in roles of Chief Information Officer and Finance Director. His area of specialty also includes all areas of risk management - especially IT risk management. Formerly a partner with Arthur Andersen, one of the original 'Big 4' accounting firms where he was responsible for their Risk Management practice in Sydney. more...



David Lynas  SABSA

David Lynas is currently enjoying his twenty-fourth year of experience in Information Security, during which he has been invited to provide strategic advice to governments and industry clients on every continent. David Lynas is an Associate of the ALC Group and heads the Enterprise Security stream of ALC/PDA's Information Security Education Program. more...



Krag Brotby CISM

Krag Brotby has more than twenty years experience in the computer security field with a focus on governance and architecture. A principal author of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 CISM review manual and related presentation materials, he also serves on the CISM Practice Analysis Task Force defining the practice area for the coming years. Mr Brotby is based in California, USA. A more detailed biography is available on our web site under Faculty. more...



Greg Lee

Greg Lee is a highly experienced and accomplished management consultant and trainer, having been involved in corporate training since 1987 and consulting since 1992, with IBM, Mercuri International, Workforce Transformations, Bid Direction and in his own company GMCL & Associates. Greg was initially trained in the IBM consulting method and has maintained a very active interest in methodologies ever since. more...



Les Bell CISSP

Les Bell has a long, varied and distinguished background in the computer industry as a consultant, writer, software developer, educator and international course presenter. Les has specialised strongly in the area of TCP/IP internetworking, Linux, web-based development, the design and implementation of intranets and web sites, programming and development in Java, OO analysis and design, and Internet-based marketing. Les is renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge and has no spare time. more...



Matt Whelan

Matt Whelan is one of Australia's leading IT identities with a long career encompassing writing, teaching, software development and consultancy. His comprehensive experience in creating and implementing security strategies in the corporate environment led to the development of PDA's flagship "Network Security Essentials" course, while his dedicated 'know your enemy' research program resulted in the acclaimed hands-on "Hacking Windows Masterclass". more...