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Cuong Pham Practice Director, Automation
With more than two decades of test automation and quality engineering experience, Cuong is responsible for driving our automation practices to enable our customers to successfully adopt and scale their implementation of automation. Prior to rejoining Planit in 2019, he held senior IT roles at Serraview, Thomsons Online Benefits, and ANZ. He has built and managed quality and engineering teams in different parts of the world, including Australia, India, Singapore, UK, Romania, Croatia, and USA.
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Cuong Pham
Practice Director, Automation
With more than two decades of test automation and quality engineering experience, Cuong is responsible for driving our automation practices to enable our customers to successfully adopt and scale their implementation of automation. Prior to rejoining Planit in 2019, he held senior IT roles at Serraview, Thomsons Online Benefits, and ANZ. He has built and managed quality and engineering teams in different parts of the world, including Australia, India, Singapore, UK, Romania, Croatia, and USA.
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Leanne Howard Business Agility Practice Director
Leanne is responsible for accelerating Business Agility transformation for our global client-base by implementing industry-leading standards and better ways of working. She is recognised worldwide as a thought leader in the Agile space, frequently speaks publicly at conferences and events about the methodology, and is an ANZTB board member, a member of the Australia Standards Committee, and a certified TMMi Lead Assessor. She favours a pragmatic, outcome-focused way of working that helps the team to succeed in their goals, challenging them to optimise, putting the customer at the centre, encouraging continuous learning and collaboration, and sharing her knowledge so that others benefit from her wide experience, thus succeeding first time.
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Leanne Howard
Business Agility Practice Director
Leanne is responsible for accelerating Business Agility transformation for our global client-base by implementing industry-leading standards and better ways of working. She is recognised worldwide as a thought leader in the Agile space, frequently speaks publicly at conferences and events about the methodology, and is an ANZTB board member, a member of the Australia Standards Committee, and a certified TMMi Lead Assessor. She favours a pragmatic, outcome-focused way of working that helps the team to succeed in their goals, challenging them to optimise, putting the customer at the centre, encouraging continuous learning and collaboration, and sharing her knowledge so that others benefit from her wide experience, thus succeeding first time.
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Juan Florez Director, Software Engineeing
Juan is a highly experienced developer and test engineer that is responsible for driving technical innovation and thought leadership around quality engineering at Planit. He has strong engineering professional skilled in DevOps, performance tuning, load testing, test automation, mobile apps, and system integration testing. Prior to joining Planit in 2010, he was an Applications Analyst at Superpartners, and Performance Analyst at AXA. He has also held senior developer roles in Colombia at JP Morgan and Heinsohn Software House.
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Juan Florez
Director, Software Engineeing
Juan is a highly experienced developer and test engineer that is responsible for driving technical innovation and thought leadership around quality engineering at Planit. He has strong engineering professional skilled in DevOps, performance tuning, load testing, test automation, mobile apps, and system integration testing. Prior to joining Planit in 2010, he was an Applications Analyst at Superpartners, and Performance Analyst at AXA. He has also held senior developer roles in Colombia at JP Morgan and Heinsohn Software House.
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Phil Johnson Practice Director, Performance Engineering
An expert in application performance and continuous testing, Phil leads the performance engineering practice at Planit to help our clients engineer speed with quality into their systems. With over 20 years experience in scaling applications, Phil has worked in both Planit UK and ANZ since 2015, and is now based in Perth. Prior to joining Planit, he headed up performance engineering/testing at the Royal Mail Group and the NHS at CSC (DXC) UK.
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Phil Johnson
Practice Director, Performance Engineering
An expert in application performance and continuous testing, Phil leads the performance engineering practice at Planit to help our clients engineer speed with quality into their systems. With over 20 years experience in scaling applications, Phil has worked in both Planit UK and ANZ since 2015, and is now based in Perth. Prior to joining Planit, he headed up performance engineering/testing at the Royal Mail Group and the NHS at CSC (DXC) UK.
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Rowly Emmett Practice Director, Optimisation
Rowly is responsible for helping our clients to optimise and transform their own operations to better align the operations of business and IT. He has advised and worked with most industry verticals and organisation types, from R&D units to BAU areas, in state and federal government departments, banking & finance, healthcare, technology, and more. Prior to joining Planit in 2021, he was an Agile Test Coach at APA Group, Quality Consultant at AccessHQ, and Test Manager at Cerner Corporation. He has also held senior quality roles at Queensland Treasury - Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation, KJR, Symbian, and Ericsson.
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Rowly Emmett
Practice Director, Optimisation
Rowly is responsible for helping our clients to optimise and transform their own operations to better align the operations of business and IT. He has advised and worked with most industry verticals and organisation types, from R&D units to BAU areas, in state and federal government departments, banking & finance, healthcare, technology, and more. Prior to joining Planit in 2021, he was an Agile Test Coach at APA Group, Quality Consultant at AccessHQ, and Test Manager at Cerner Corporation. He has also held senior quality roles at Queensland Treasury - Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation, KJR, Symbian, and Ericsson.
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Dr. Tafline Ramos Practice Director, Quality Engineering and Assurance
Tafline is responsible for driving best quality practices across Planit, including its thousands of consultants and hundreds of clients worldwide. Tafline holds a PhD in software testing and is a regular feature in software engineering, technology, and quality engineering conferences. She has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and is an international standards leader, developing software engineering standards with ISO and IEEE.
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Dr. Tafline Ramos
Practice Director, Quality Engineering and Assurance
Tafline is responsible for driving best quality practices across Planit, including its thousands of consultants and hundreds of clients worldwide. Tafline holds a PhD in software testing and is a regular feature in software engineering, technology, and quality engineering conferences. She has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and is an international standards leader, developing software engineering standards with ISO and IEEE.
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Ferdinand Hagethorn Director, Security Services
Ferdinand is responsible for establishing and leading our cybersecurity practice, which has rapidly grown to provide security testing, penetration testing, and DevSecOps services for our global client-base. He is a seasoned cybersecurity and information security expert with over 25 years of experience in engineering, architecture, and security that has provided business-driven design and implementation, migration planning, testing and execution at the highest levels to over 800 projects in seven countries throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Prior to moving to Wellington and joining Planit in 2015, he held senior security roles in consulting, IT, and energy sectors.
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Ferdinand Hagethorn
Director, Security Services
Ferdinand is responsible for establishing and leading our cybersecurity practice, which has rapidly grown to provide security testing, penetration testing, and DevSecOps services for our global client-base. He is a seasoned cybersecurity and information security expert with over 25 years of experience in engineering, architecture, and security that has provided business-driven design and implementation, migration planning, testing and execution at the highest levels to over 800 projects in seven countries throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Prior to moving to Wellington and joining Planit in 2015, he held senior security roles in consulting, IT, and energy sectors.
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Jim O'Brien Principal Consultant
Jim brings over 20 years technical, leadership, and management experience across financial, educational and technology sectors to building high performing testing teams at Planit. He has a proven record in the management of large, diverse and distributed teams of quality engineers to achieve substantial cost reduction and delivering better product outcomes. Prior to joining Planit in 2022, he held senior quality roles at Commonwealth Bank, University of Sydney, and Hewlett-Packard.
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Jim O'Brien
Principal Consultant
Jim brings over 20 years technical, leadership, and management experience across financial, educational and technology sectors to building high performing testing teams at Planit. He has a proven record in the management of large, diverse and distributed teams of quality engineers to achieve substantial cost reduction and delivering better product outcomes. Prior to joining Planit in 2022, he held senior quality roles at Commonwealth Bank, University of Sydney, and Hewlett-Packard.
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Ai Wei Chan Practice Director - Transformation
Ai Wei is responsible for helping our clients successfully deliver large and complex testing transformation programs. Throughout her career, she successfully managed hundreds of testing projects to completion, two of which were the largest in Australia. She brings to Planit almost 20 years of financial institution experience from National Australia Bank, where she specialised in digital banking.
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Ai Wei Chan
Practice Director - Transformation
Ai Wei is responsible for helping our clients successfully deliver large and complex testing transformation programs. Throughout her career, she successfully managed hundreds of testing projects to completion, two of which were the largest in Australia. She brings to Planit almost 20 years of financial institution experience from National Australia Bank, where she specialised in digital banking.
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Susanne Matson Practice Director, Customer Insight & Advisory
As a Gartner analyst, Susanne owned the testing services Magic Quadrant for over 6 years, advising hundreds of CIOs, Application Leaders and Digital Transformation executives on software quality engineering related topics. At Planit, Susanne ensures our offering roadmap addresses current and future customer requirements, whilst incorporating emerging technologies and approaches.
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Susanne Matson
Practice Director, Customer Insight & Advisory
As a Gartner analyst, Susanne owned the testing services Magic Quadrant for over 6 years, advising hundreds of CIOs, Application Leaders and Digital Transformation executives on software quality engineering related topics. At Planit, Susanne ensures our offering roadmap addresses current and future customer requirements, whilst incorporating emerging technologies and approaches.
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Phil Tomblin Head of Technology
Phil is an experienced delivery director, manager, and consultant with a background in software development and testing. He is responsible for driving technical innovation throughout Planit to ensure successful project outcomes, optimise speed and efficiency, and demonstrate clear alignment between technology and strategic business outcomes. Prior to joining Planit in 2022, Phil was Head Of Quality Assurance at Fuse Universal. He has also held senior IT leadership roles at MegaNexus and SQS.
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Phil Tomblin
Head of Technology
Phil is an experienced delivery director, manager, and consultant with a background in software development and testing. He is responsible for driving technical innovation throughout Planit to ensure successful project outcomes, optimise speed and efficiency, and demonstrate clear alignment between technology and strategic business outcomes. Prior to joining Planit in 2022, Phil was Head Of Quality Assurance at Fuse Universal. He has also held senior IT leadership roles at MegaNexus and SQS.