2. BAL's head office is in Sydney, Australia with associates in the major
Australian State Capitals, the USA, UK, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland,
India, Israel, Hong Kong and Singapore since 1978.
Mission
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully
BAL Consulting's mission is to provide timely, cost-effective, and practical
business solutions of high quality and added value that meet our clients'
business requirements.
We have established an impeccable reputation in Technology Consulting
for both medium to large companies and Government agencies in the
areas of Information Technology and Telecommunications. We bridge
business with technology and excel in analysing business and investment
opportunities.
Philosophy
We are a group of principal consultants each with specialised skills. Each
of our consultants has managed his or her own consulting business
successfully.
Our philosophy is to offer our services only in areas in which the
consulting group has outstanding intellectual assets, practical and proven
experience in providing business solutions.
Our philosophy is against having a generalist outlook and trying to be all
things to all men.
We specialise in the provision of professional services for data centre
infrastructure, telecommunications research and consulting, e-business,
e-commerce and e-services, messaging & collaboration, data
warehousing, middleware, application, database and network design,
implementation and support as IT&T enablers to implement strategic
planning and business process re-engineering.
We are a service only company, and guarantee our clients against having
any interest in product vendors; BAL Consulting does not accept vendor
assignments and does not have any financial interest in any vendor.
All our consultants have a degree and/or are certified professionals with a
minimum of ten years of experience; we do not contract 'trainees' at our
Clients expense.
3. Services
True is it that we have seen better days. - William Shakespeare, "As
You Like It", Act 1 scene 7
We offer services for:
Cyber Security
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. - Will
Rogers
· Significant security experience with Government agencies including APRA,
Australian Federal Police, Attorney General and a number of NSW state
government departments.
· Telstra Security Program Manager of Cyber Security Transformation.
Veteran Program Manager of Telstra and Westpac Transition and Transformation
T&T since 2007.
· Delivered Telstra’s Internet content Blocking security project by 30 June
2011 deadline as the CEO’s commitment to the Minister to protect 10m customers
from abuse.
· Security hardening of Westpac Online Internet Banking data centre
infrastructure and End User Computing. Rebuilt bank’s Internet facing security
zone 0. Focus on Infrastructure Security Architecture.
· Westpac Day 121 security integration with St George, BT and Asgard
Wealth Management for network address space remediation, DNS and DHCP.
· Telstra Security Program Delivery to Westpac including integration Telstra
Identity and Access Management with Westpac’s CORPAU identity store, ACS
LDAP-S services for authentication, and User Access Revalidation (UAR) via
Westpac’s SailPoint.
· Delivered ArcSight Security Information Even Management (SIEM)
supporting Cyber Security Operations for 8,000 Telstra managed Westpac devices.
· Implemented McAfee end Point Protection (ePO), McAfee Vulnerability
Manager (MVM) as well as Tripwire Enterprise configuration management across
Telstra managed Westpac fleet.
4. · Project managed network security policies, planning and audits for Telstra
and banks.
· Security hardening using Citrix for Vodafone Big Data.
· Developed enterprise Internet Security Presence Protection analysis and audit
methodology and tools - this I believe is a unique offering rich in Intellectual
Property.
· Managed Telstra T-Cloud Big Data Infrastructure Development – one of the
largest online projects in the Southern Hemisphere and part of the $1b Telstra
cloud program. Deployed into three Telstra data centres as well as integrated
authentication and web services with half-a-dozen Telstra data centres. Managed
all security aspects,
· Multiple Telstra repeat business 15-16 assignments over 23 years. Similarly,
a dozen assignments for Westpac since 2007.
Data Centre Infrastructure Advisory
Prequalified for both SCM005 and SCM020 and registered under NSW
Finance & Services Performance and Management Services Scheme
Categories:
1) Infrastructure and Major Projects; 2) General Technical Expertise
Registered under NSW Data Centre Reform Market Place ICT Services
DCR103
Registered for NSW Data Centre Migration Services under NSW Data
Centre Reform DCR102
Our aim is to continue and excel as a Senior Data Centre Infrastructure
Consulting building on many years’ experience in all aspects of
online/cloud/infrastructure project delivery for Westpac, ANZ Bank, Futures
Brokers, AMP, KPMG, PwC Energy Australia, Telstra & other key clients:
Westpac Banking Corporation zone 0 Internet facing data centre
infrastructure
Managed Telstra T-Cloud Data Centre Infrastructure Development –
one of the largest online projects in the Southern Hemisphere and part
of the $1b Telstra cloud program.
Telstra Big Pond and Telstra Multimedia Senior PM Assignments.
Contractor of Telstra a dozen times over 20 years for a total of five
years. Telstra and WebCentral Development Partner.
5. Technical management of large scale multi-data centre build of storage
systems, networks, servers, racking and cabling including major data centre
moves including decommissioning. Data centre capacity planning including
heat dissipation, power and rack space.
Experienced in project managing networks, firewalls, load balancers, servers
(Wintel, AIX and RHEL Linux), Oracle, SQL, SharePoint, backup and data
replication between data centres. Implemented Telstra’s first EMC Isilon
scale-out NAS Big Data solution that natively integrates with the Hadoop
Distributed File System (HDFS) layer. Deployed infrastructure into three
Telstra data centres as well as integrated authentication and web services
with half-a-dozen Telstra data centres.
We have advised on mission critical high availability and security
infrastructure for stock broking clearance and futures trading, innovative
credit card products, Operational Data Store for single customer view and
customer value ranking across a portfolio of financial services for Westpac,
upgrade of Internet Banking and Online infrastructure for Westpac,
mortgage lending for AMP, front and middle offices for energy trading for
Energy.
Our focus is on Data Centre Architecture and Security for hardening of data
centre security for Internet access. Delivered Telstra’s Internet content
Blocking by 30 June 2011 deadline as the CEO’s commitment to the Minister
to protect 10m Internet access customers.
We have hardened the data centre security of Westpac Banking
Corporation’s Internet facing data centre security zone 0, implemented
High Availability and increased Westpac’s Internet capacity ten-fold
through a series of projects from 2007 to 2009.
Telecommunications and Information
Technology Planning and Selection
The scars of others should teach us caution. - Saint Jerome, Letter
We provide Feasibility Studies and Product Marketing Support in IT&T, in
particular of Internet/Electronic Commerce/e-services. As an example, we
provided the original architecture and project management for parts of
Telstra Big Pond for Business: Intranet web hosting, messaging and
directory services. Our services include:
Business planning
Preparing companies for sale
6. Support for M&A and MBO investment
Preparation of Tender documents
Analysis and Design of Telecommunications Services
Evaluation, Benchmarking and Selection of hardware, databases,
software and communications as integrated system solutions
Projections and Forecasting
Pro Bono Work
BAL takes pride in its Pro Bono work for non-profit organisations such
as IEEE and ACM. Also, we have helped many talented post graduate
students.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity
- Albert Camus
Wireless, Internet, and e-Business Consulting
Case Study
Internet Presence Protection Services
Ecommerce - Electronic Payment System consulting
e-Business Architecture and Design
WLANs, Bluetooth, 802.11/16 consulting
Wireless business planning and investment analysis
e-valuations®
Web Mate
Messaging, e-service and Workflow design, implementation on value
added messaging
Database design, implementation and support including data
warehousing applications and middleware
Network design, implementation and support
Bench-marking and performance analysis
Skills Transfer
7. Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no
risk. - Joaquin Setanti
Systems Integration & Project
Management
System Requirement Specification
Interface Control Documents
Project, Configuration Management, Quality and Test Plans
Risk Assessment, Issues Management, Project Reviews and
IT&T Management
Enterprise architecture frameworks including FEAF, Zachman
and Togaf
Architectures: Business, Enterprise, Solution & Technical
Architectural Blueprints and Roadmaps for Enterprise
Vendor Management
Project Rescue
CMM: Capability Maturity Model assessment in partnership
with
Software Engineering Consultants Inc. SECI
ITIL: IT Infrastructure Library
SPICE: Software Process Improvement and Capability
dEtermination
Quality Audit of ISO 9000-Series
Security Audit of ISO 27000-Series
PMBOK® and Prince2®
8. Clients
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must
approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher
9.
10. Helicopter View of Key Programs
Overall Matri
x
Life-Cycle
Westpac $12m 25 PgM Full Westpac Online
Services
ANZ
Bank
$2m 20 PD Late www.anzbalancevisa.co
m
AMP $40m 25 PgM Late Mortgage Lending
PwC $5m+ 20 PD Implement Stockbroking/ Apps
KPMG $300m 15 PgM Early Investment Advisor ICE
Energy
Australia
$10m 12 PgM Mid-to-
Late
Energy Trading
Business Analysis &
Architecture
Westfield $1m
multiple
10 Senior PM
Methodolog
y
Various -
Review
Gift Card & Digital
Marketing .NET & J2EE
Development
Telstra 1 $25m+ 30 PgM Full DW/BI
Telstra 2
-3
$15m+ 10 PgM Full New Product
Development
TAFE
NSW
$5m+
pa
20 Program
Manager
Full Stake Holder
Management
ShieldTe
l
Up to
$80m
15 Project
Director
Full CTO
Unisys
R&D
$2-5m
multiple
15
R&D
Manager
Mid-to-
Late
Product Development
Apps
Defence $100m
+
30 Test & QA
Manager
Full
Product Development
Apps
NSW
Gov
$100m 20-
to-30
Mgmnt
Cons
Mid-Late Oracle Financials &
CRM
