Island Consulting - Our Staff

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Our Staff

Steve Amesbury

Steve is co-founder and Director of Island Consulting Pty Ltd (formerly Island Technology). Specialising in Information Management and Technology project management services, Island has been operating since 1991.

Steve specializes in areas such as IT management, risk management, change management and project quality assurance. His assignments included designing a Human Resource Training system for a major private healthcare supplier, consulting assignments for Government Departments in Victoria and New South Wales, and designing the network for one of Australia’s largest Insurance Broking firms.

For five years, Steve held a position as Director Information Services at the NSW Office of State Revenue, where he managed one of this states largest and most successful IM&T Projects of the time. During that time, Steve was on several government committees responsible for developing standards, and was a well known proponent for change in State Government (IM&T) forums.

Since then, Steve has acted as IT Manager for a large NSW Government Shared Service Network (NSW Businesslink), and prior to that, acted as IT Manager for another Shared Service Arrangement (The Visitor Services Agencies).

His recent assignments have included developing business cases for several NSW Departments, and a review of a major project for the Western Australian Government.

His background includes roles as project manager, applications manager and IT Manager in some of Australia’s leading insurance companies. With a track record of successful project implementation, he is most proud of the organizational and structural changes he has achieved, which have delivered major improvements to the efficiency of the IT and business areas he has worked with.

Prior to his management roles, Steve was an experienced applications designer / developer within the Australian insurance industry.

Lynne Amesbury
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Lynne also has many years experience in the banking industry in both Australia and New Zealand.

Most recently, Lynne has provided project management services to the Shoalhaven City Council. Prior to that, she provided consultant services in the development and facilitation of project management training in Sydney, Adelaide and London. She was also instrumental in setting up the project office for the NRMA.

Lynne gained considerable experience within Westpac Banking Corporation performing project reviews, assessing business justifications and delivering project office services to many business areas within the company.

With a background in application development and project management, Lynne’s experiences includes the setup and running of an internal software house.

Lynne obtained her first class honours degree from the University of Technology with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing Science). In addition to many years commercial experience, Lynne has certification in workplace assessment and training, and in Project Management.