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Dowling Consulting appoints four IT services specialists

IT Industry - Development

Australian IT supply chain services specialist, Dowling Consulting, has appointed four consultants. Mike Andrews, Fred Lorensini, John Wise
and Russell Murphy join the company as it enters a growth phase.

Andrews is a senior consultant with 25 years experience in supply chain
management, logistics and technology. Prior to joining Dowling Consulting he was manufacturing solution lead at HP Consulting and Integration. Before that, he was presales manager, ERP Systems at Powerlan, and logistics manager and Willow Plastics.

Lorensini, a senior consultant, joins Dowling Consulting from McMillan Shakespeare where he was project manager for a $12 millon enterprise level system. He has also worked as integration consultant for Toll Holdings, and as general manager of IT architecture for Ansett Australia.

Wise, an enterprise architect, comes from Aspect Computing, KAZ Technology Services, where he was principal consultant. Prior to that, he held a similar position at the South Australian systems integration practice of PriceWaterhouse Urwick. He has also been a director at Syscorp Group, and chief manager at the Australian International Finance Corporation.

Murphy is a consultant specialising in business analysis, business modeling, software development methodologies, governance and IT standards. Previously, Russell was a software process improvement consultant at Software Engineering Australia (SEA). He is an accredited CMMI assessor, trained by the European Software Institute.