Grahame has a Diploma in Accounting and is a member of the National Institute of Accountants. Grahame has over 30 years accounting experience in commerce and has been with CSIRO over the past six years providing financial systems support to CSIRO, iVEC and other joint venture partners.

Brian is an experienced information analyst and project manager, with particular expertise in information & communication technologies, information management and website content design and development.

In his academic life, he has held positions as lecturer in education and business management, senior lecturer in information Systems, Campus Manager, and Head of School (Information Technology). He has a BA (Hons) and BEd from the University of Western Australia and completed his MSc at the University of Oxford.

In recent years Brian has conducted an independent information management consultancy, working with a wide range of state and federal government departments, and private sector companies such as AlintaGas, Dialog IT, Woodside Energy, Chevron and Yilgarn Resources.

As Business Manager, Brian is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of iVEC’s key business and project documentation, including area action plans for iVEC’s Facilities and Programs, government reports and submissions and organisational infrastructure policy and procedures. He also acts as Executive Officer to the iVEC Board.

Andrew is a specialist in the area of programme delivery, innovation and technology commercialisation. After completing a degree in electrical and electronic engineering in the UK, he worked in the commercial sector, developing. his expertise in technology transfer and innovation. Upon moving to Australia in 1999Andrew worked on a number of public and private innovation programmes designed to help companies increase their competitiveness. In 2001, Andrew joined the University of Western Australia’s Office of Industry and Innovation,  where he  was responsible for commercialising Intellectual Property developed by researchers within the Engineering and Physical Sciences discipline. Moving to Murdoch University in April 2008, Andrew worked initially as the Business Development Manager for the Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), later becoming Acting Director. Andrew’s most recent role prior to iVEC was in the role of Business Development Manager, Intellectual Property  Commercialisation, at Curtin University.

Phone contact: 08 6436 8126

Daniel moved to the iVEC Supercomputing Technology and Applications Program in 2011.  He worked in a similar position through iVEC in 2005-2007, co-funded by the APAC Computational Tools and Techniques Program.  From 2007-2011 he was in the iVEC Industry and Government Uptake Program.

His expertise includes software optimisation and parallelisation on supercomputers, particularly in computational chemistry. He has helped clients in a diverse range of applications such as data sharing, simulation visualisation, collaboration tools and training.  These clients have included students, academia, industry and government.

Daniel has a PhD with Distinction (Computational and Theoretical Chemistry) from the University of Western Australia.

Valerie Maxville is an experienced educator who is passionate about technology and it's potential. As Education Program Leader at iVEC, Valerie is responsible for training in supercomputing and eResearch along with internships and school outreach. She enjoys the challenge of communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences - breaking through the jargon to create a shared understanding.  Valerie holds a PhD in Computer Science (Software Engineering) and an honours degree in Computer Science. As an industry volunteer, Valerie actively promotes careers in computing and local industry development. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Professor Matthew Bellgard is Murdoch University's Bioinformatics Chair and the Director of the Western Australian State Government Centre of Excellence, the Centre for Comparative Genomics. His scientific work has resulted in developments in the both the areas of pairwise sequence alignment and artificial intelligence, early detection of base composition differences in closely related bacterial species, and advances in the development of web-based integrated systems utilising high performance computing.

At Murdoch University Matthew has played a pivotal leadership role that has seen the progression of bioinformatics research evolve from a small research group to a thriving innovative R&D Centre. The Centre has established a strong track record in contract research and in delivering web-based informatics solutions to a diverse range of organisations including academics, Cooperative Research Centres, state government research facilities and industry.

Matthew's international experience includes a placement at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany) and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Genetics (Mishima, Japan).

Akos has been producing training and instructional movies in Australia for over 16 years. His portfolio includes a wide range of clients from industrial giants such as Diamond Offshore, Sedco Forex and Hammersley Iron through mid- and small-sized businesses like Bristow Helicopters, Apache Helicopters, Boral and Kanowna Belle to government agencies like Central TAFE and now The University of Western Australia. His role with iVEC is to produce movies that raise awareness of science in both future students of science as well as the general public.

Damien currently has a dual role of encouraging the update of grid computing services and the use of HPC facilities within the theoretical chemistry community, coupled with researching problems in materials chemistry area using high-level theoretical calculations. Damien completed his PhD (Chemistry) at Curtin University in 2005 and then spent 4 years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Condensed Matter Theory group and the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology at the University of Sydney, before joining iVEC in 2009.

Mark Favas from CSIRO IM&T e-Science has been 100% committed to iVEC by CSIRO to provide high-level network and scientific support. With an extensive networking and Unix background, and years of experience as a researcher, Mark designs and maintains the iVEC network and provides system support on complex Unix issues. With a broad interest in scientific computing and a strong understanding of policy, Mark is able to advise researchers on how best to manage their data to best practice and to meet regulatory requirements.

Khanh Ly is the Computer Support Officer at iVEC@UWA, where he maintains and supports the servers and networks of iVEC@UWA and its High Performance Computing resources. Khanh is also responsible for operating the Access Grid and EVO at iVEC@UWA. He came to iVEC@UWA in 2009 from Telstra, Melbourne. Khanh has a Master’s Degree in Network and Systems from Swinburne University of Technology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from The University of Western Australia. His major interests include video conferencing, video streaming and encoding, IP networking technologies and HPC.

Paul Newman has extensive experience in systems administration, operating system and hardware support, user support and systems installation.  He has good analytical skills, which enable him to quickly identify problems and implement effective solutions.

Paul has a detailed knowledge of systems and technologies and has assisted clients in implementing customised solutions to their requirements.He has provided systems and applications support to users in the mining and petroleum industries. Duties included backup and archival of customer data and writing programs to read and write data in custom formats.

He installed and managed a large network of UNIX workstations used for mine planning, and was responsibly for the successful completion of the project.

Paul's current interests are Perl and Python programming and image manipulation with GIMP.

Before joining iVEC, Paul worked as a Systems Support Engineer at SGI; as a systems administrator at BHP Engineering and BHP Iron Ore's Newman mine site; as a Post Sales Support Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Mr Brad Power holds a Computer Scientist degree from Curtin University, and has experience in a wide range of realtime interactive systems and visualisation. His current role is at the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University, where he helps develop software targeted at scientists dealing with large data set processing as well as supporting the visualisation initiatives at iVEC@murdoch.

David Schibeci has a BSc with double majors in Computer Science and Mathematics with Honours from Murdoch University. He is a system administrator with the iVEC Informatics Facility.