The Destin team

The Destin team comprises a number of individuals who share years of experience and a common passion for providing high quality consulting services through commitment to the Destin Philosophy and the use of the Destin Methodology

Many of our consultants are expert in more than one field and therefore have a higher than normal cross functional understanding of other streams of work, many have been drawn from senior management roles across a diverse range of organisations and industries.

This enhances every project as our consultants not only have a “whole of project” view but are able to provide support to other areas of the project as well. This results in rapid and effective response to any issues that arise.

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Dennise Fox
As a co-Director of Destin Consulting Limited, Dennise is a motivating and respected leader of a highly skilled team of consultants. She is a programme manager with over 25 years experience in the IT industry and specialises in large scale system implementations. Dennise has a strong belief in the power of communication and creating a positive learning environment for her project teams. After many years experience as a respected Project Manager in many local government initiatives Dennise led the award winning, hugely successful eLGAR project.	Programme Manager Project Manager Implementation Manager Quality Assurance Manager
Steven Fox		top
Steven is co-Director of Destin and is also the company’s IT Manager. He is New Zealand’s foremost IBM iSeries Technical Consultant and works closely with IBM NZ and IBM’s iSeries manufacturing plant in Rochester USA.	IT Manager Programming Specialist IBM iSeries Technical Consultant
Adrian Cathcart-James		top
Adrian is a multi-skilled IT professional whose primary focus is in e-Business and project management. Adrian has successfully managed a number of major initiatives including implementing a new service delivery model for University of Auckland HR; and managing the role out of 14 e-business services for Auckland City Council.	eBusiness Consultant Project Manager Business Process Designer
Andy Georgetti		top
Andy is a PeopleSoft developer with over 13 years' experience across the range of PeopleSoft and associated third party tools. He has also undertaken a considerable amount of system admin work involving application servers, web servers and process schedulers. Andy is dedicated and results driven. He strives to provide excellent solutions in accordance with best practice PeopleSoft development standards. He takes a pragmatic and creative approach to problem solving.	Data Conversion PeopleSoft Developer Release Manager Systems Administration
Angela Cathcart-James		top
Angela is an Implementation Manager who prepares detailed cutover plans and business continuity plans. In addition she capably manages the cutover process and any testing of these procedures. Angela has also branched into Project Management. In roles as Project Coordinator Angela has worked closely with the Programme Manager to manage project budgets, logistics and meeting preparation. She has a breadth of experience across many industries including Local Government and Universities.	Implementation Manager Project Coordinator Project Manager
Anna Francis		top
Anna is an experience business professional who thrives on facilitating change, coordinating teams and developing strong business relationships. Her extensive background in the investment management industry has had a project, process and IT focus. It has exposed Anna to the operations of large multi-national companies in which she has engaged at the highest levels.	Change Manager Communications Specialist Development Manager Business Process management Project Coordinator
Brent Rankin		top
Brent is a Business Analyst, with a development background. Brent has a track record of delivering quality outcomes for his customers. In a project team Brent fits in well alongside staff forming collaborative relationships with them and coaching them in process or system change methodologies. Brent is always well liked and trusted by his fellow team members and is in great demand. He has experience across many industries, most recently in local government and Universities.	Business Analyst Business Process Design Testing Reporting
David Reddaway		top
David specialises in online process, system and training documentation. David has been producing documentation for projects, across many applications and industries, over the last 12 years. The documentation templates and standards he developed at Auckland City Council provided the platform for their ongoing documentation delivery. David is highly experienced in a range of online documentation tools and works alongside functional teams to gather process information and prepare documentation.	Documentation Specialist Trainer
Ed Lusty		top
Ed has a well-respected history of information management success in corporate and local government industries. His skills range from project management to software development. He is a leader in business process design and has a proven reputation in facilitating major improvements for organisations in this capacity. Ed has an unparalleled ability to streamline functional solutions for projects that results in major savings for the organisation. For example, he devised a tool automating change impact information, eliminating many hours of manual work; he also built a reconciliation engine that eliminated several months of manual checking for the client.	Business Process Design Manager Project Manager Integration Manager Testing Manager Business Analysis
Gabriel Collins		top
Gabriel is a Business Analyst with a track record of producing professional, quality outcomes for clients. He has a depth of PeopleSoft experience and along with his business analysis expertise, has experience in functional consultancy and in supporting data conversion. Gabriel works closely with business users, and his experience and outstanding work and team ethic make him a valued asset to any team.	Business Analyst Business Process Design Testing Reporting
Glenda Stoneman		top
Glenda is an experienced Project Administrator who provides outstanding support to project teams. She balances a demanding workload efficiently and effectively, while maintaining the highest level of professionalism. In Project Coordination, Glenda focuses on ensuring team members have what they need to work effectively. As a Training Coordinator, her key skills lie in creating complex training schedules, scheduling large audiences, and monitoring and managing all training activities.	Project Coordinator Training Coordination
Hope Shaw		top
Hope is an experienced project professional whose key strengths lie across project management, training management, implementation consultancy, business process design, and change & communications. In the training sphere Hope has managed successful training programmes for up to 6000 users with teams of up to 23 trainers. Hope is a proactive and solutions focused manager who achieves outstanding results in all of her roles. Hope has a solid background in a range of industries including local government where she has worked on major projects across three Councils in the Auckland Region.	Project Manager Training Manager Implementation Management Business Process Design Change & Communications
John MacKenzie		top
John is a Service Manager with many years’ experience in local and central government roles. He has worked at senior management levels within the areas of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing and Land & Water Rates. John has experience of managing teams, management of operations, overseeing collection of revenue, managing inter-organisational relationships, issue resolution, and liaison with key stakeholders .	Leading Customer Focused Teams Operations Management Customer Service Delivery Financial & Budget Management Problem Solving & Issues Resolution
Justine Grose		top
Justine is an experienced leader and people manager who has worked in the IT industry both in the UK and New Zealand for over 20 years. Since 2000 she has worked in a variety of management roles across a range of disciplines including Technical Services, Software Development and IT Service Delivery. Justine is driven by process and delivery of business results.	Destin Consulting Business Development Manager IT Manager Project Manager Service Delivery Software Development Manager
Kate Victor		top
Kate is a very capable Project Coordinator with a excellent skills in providing programme financials, reporting and analysis. She has worked on a number of large projects in the telecommunications industry and for Destin at the University of Auckland. Kate’s experience has provided her with a unique skill set to develop and implement programme offices for organisations and establish best practice programme management approaches for those programme officers. Kate is a seasoned professional in all aspects of Project Management with a good understanding of project methodologies, governance and all aspects of programme coordination.	Project Coordinator Programme Office Specialist
Kathryn Jansen		top
Kathryn has over 15 years experience in IT. She has worked in roles for a range of financial institutions in London, Toronto and New York. In these roles she has been responsible for managing multi-million dollar budgets, negotiating contracts, managing vendor relationships and the direct management of staff. Kathryn has a track record of delivery savings and efficiencies.	Project Management Business Management IT Management Vendor & Contract Management Governance Business Analysis
Liz Eglinton		top
Liz is a Business Analyst with a background in HR. Liz combines these two skills effectively to ensure that changes have the greatest benefit to an organisation, with the least impact to its people. She is also a skilled facilitator, with expertise in driving decision making and keeping sessions focussed on outcomes.	Business Analyst Business Process Design Reporting
Liz Meyers		top
Liz is a Consultant with over 20 years experience in change and communications management and is an outstanding communicator and change manager. Liz is proactive and energetic, and with her high degree of commercial acumen, consistently delivers outcomes on time and on budget. She has exceptional writing and communication skills, and is confident presenting to any audience. Liz has worked across a variety of industries some of which include local government and aviation.	Change & Communications Manager Project Management Marketing
Matt Duck		top
Matt has over 20 years experience in Capital Markets with 12 years in a Financial Services Practice and 6 years at Senior Manager level. As a Programme / Project Manager. He has delivered IT for wealth managers, exchanges and banks, and is comfortable managing multi-million dollar budgets and multiple work streams. Matt has focused on a range of aspects including IT strategy, business cases, system integration and migration, reference data, technical architecture definition and implementation, infrastructure design and implementation, development methodologies, outsourcing and service management. An expert in technology, Matt is experienced in implementing requirements such as. performance, availability, security, backup and restore, business continuity and system management.	Programme / Project Manager Implementation Management IT Strategy IT Architecture IT Management
Megan Eichelsheim		top
Megan is a positive, enthusiastic, flexible and innovative Business Analyst with proven project skills. She has effectively participated in a range of projects of varying degrees of complexity. She has consistently displayed an ability to lead and motivate project teams and to inspire the achievement of outcomes. Megan has strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain key relationships. She is effective both individually and within a team environment at promoting and implementing business solutions.	Process Improvement Business Process Documentation Business Development Workshop Facilitation
Mike Davis		top
Mike’s specialty is managing data conversion and report production. His experience is wide reaching across corporate and local government sectors. He is experienced in data conversion for PeopleSoft and SAP implementations in particular. Mike both manages and assists with development of data conversion routines and reporting applications. Mike excels at creating an enjoyable and motivational atmosphere for his teams.	Data Conversion Manager Reporting
Sarah Newell		top
Sarah has over 20 years experience in IT, gaining expertise in a number of key industries including: Utilities, IT Services, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Government. Sarah is a hard working and results oriented professional with a strong customer focus underpinned by solid systems understanding and appreciation of business processes.	Business Analyst Business Process Design Reporting Data Conversion
Shaun Falconer		top
Shaun is a technical business analyst with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He has provided consulting and analyst services to a range of companies and local government organisations.	Business Analysis Geospatial expertise Release Management Software Development Testing Management
Susan Rae		top
Susan is a strong and effective business analyst who works hard to deliver high quality outcomes. She has proven experience in process design, testing, writing complex specifications and data conversion. Susan has outstanding technical skills and easily transfers her analytical skills to delivering detailed testing requirements. She is adaptable, willing and able to take on any task presented to her to benefit the project	Business Analysis Business Process Design Interface Design Data Conversion Testing Management
Trish Young		top
Trish has worked in the IT industry for 30 years in roles from programmer to general manager of an international software development company. She has an excellent understanding of the dynamics of system or process change initiatives, utilising many techniques to effectively manage transitions. Trish has also developed effective change management methodologies for business process reengineering.	Change & Communications Business Process Design Business Analyst IT Manager Training
Ursela Beasley		top
Ursela is a Senior Business Analyst with a wealth of experience in IT, and specific expertise in SAP Financials. She has a determined attitude that allows her to successfully complete even the most ambitious projects. Ursela’s skills are used to full advantage as a Testing Manager and when working with a team of the client’s staff, coaching them in process design, SAP configuration and project methodology.	Testing Manager Business Analyst
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