In an IT career spanning more than two decades, Bernard has earned a well deserved reputation as an original thinker, with the ability to innovate and inspire.

The last ten years have been spent in the utilities industry (mainly electricity) as an architect and consultant.

With industry recognised business expertise covering almost all aspects of a utilities business, he can offer effective advice on the NEM, MSATS (transfers, settlements, etc.), FRC (including transfer processes, automation of back end systems, integration, etc.), pricing, billing, customer reporting, NEMMCO and DUoS settlements reconciliation, B2B (including MSATS and FRMP to LNSP), MDP management, meter data management, network load analysis and forecasting for reliability, UMS, etc.

He has a track record of proposing and designing cost-effective and business-effective solutions that are chosen against competing proposals, and managing their implementation on time, on budget.