As Dodo takes on iiNet, TPG and Internode in the world of competitive broadband plans, chief executive, Larry Kestelman, talks to <i>Computerworld Australia</i> about the importance of knowing business over technology, and his motivations behind the Australian ISP's vision.
From owning one of Australia's only all-electric Tesla Roadster sports cars to inventing an internet-controlled toaster in the 1990s, Internode's managing director, Simon Hackett, isn't an ordinary pluck from the IT crowd. Instead, the ISP's founder has managed to get through life having only had one job interview, and has witnessed the internet landscape in Australia go from birth to maturity over the past 25 years. Hackett talked to <i>Computerworld Australia</i> about the magic of the Apple II, working in the university internet sector and why his success story is unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.
Once a division of Alcatel, managed services integrator, Integ has become a significant part of the local industry in its own right, providing a multitude of voice and communications services to businesses, as well as networking, infrastructure and applications. Coming off the back of a double digit increase in profits, Integ's chief executive officer, Ian Poole, talks to <i>Computerworld Australia</i> about the challenge of change in the industry and the importance of the customer.
Recent winner of Ersnt & Young's 2010 Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, Vocus Communications chief executive, James Spenceley, has accomplished a fair amount in the past 15 years, from starting his own service provider to sparking industry-wide discussion on the National Broadband Network (NBN) through the [[Artnid:358962|Alliance for Affordable Broadband]]. As Spenceley recovers from the recent AusNOG conference, he speaks to <i>Computerworld Australia</i> about how he got started and the importance of passion in the industry.
FedEx Express' Asia Pacific chief information officer, Alison Dack, talks to <i>Computerworld Australia</i> about her experience, and the "bits and bytes" that caused her to get into the industry in the first place.
Greg Bader describes his entry as chief technology officer at iiNet as becoming a "big fish in a small pond", but a quick look at his past shows exactly that. After ten years in the army, he spent the next ten years building a respectable career in communications, working in network deployment for Optus and subsequently at three of the biggest network engineering companies - Nokia, Lucent and Ericsson. Now a head honcho at one of Australia's most customer-oriented service providers - and now the second largest ADSL2+ provider - Bader talks to <i>Computerworld Australia</i> about iiNet's fierce vision and the changing landscape of telecommunications.
Founder and managing director of software testing firm, Planit, Carter has been a big advocate of software testing skills and requirements over the years, setting up the Australian New Zealand Testing Board (ANZTB) for the proliferation of standards qualifications locally. <i>Computerworld Australia</i> caught up with Carter to talk about the importance of software testing and where it's headed in the future.