Cheryl Hannah - Senior Consultant

Cheryl has three decades of experience in academic and public sector executive management. She has experience in policy development, operational and service delivery roles and managed regional offices in Australia for the Department of Immigration as well as serving as Australia's Counsellor Migration in the Philippines in the mid-1990s. Promoted to the Senior Executive Service in 1999, Cheryl later assumed the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) and First Assistant Secretary for Information Technology (IT) Services where she was responsible annually for $100m+ IT budgets and staffing complements of over 1,000 employees and contractors. She managed the first and two successive Commonwealth Government IT outsourcing contracts for Immigration/Cluster 3 with global IT companies CSC, IBM and Unisys.

As a consultant, Cheryl specialises in strategic management advice, managing IT third party provider relationships, IT staff development and mentoring for aspirants to the Senior Executive Service.

Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the ANU. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the Australian Computing Society. She is also the owner and Director of FyreGallery (www.hannahfyre.com.au)

Key Areas of Expertise

• Strategic management advice (general)
• Strategic management advice (specialising in Information Technology)
• Management of Third Party Provider relationships in IT outsourcing
• Graduate entry staff development and mentoring
• Organisational design
• Facilitation of workshops and conferences, particularly for IT planning and project review
• Change management
• Arts administration and business development

Recent Assignments

• "What Does your Employer Really Want?", Workshop for the IT "Young Guns" of the Australian Computer Society (ACS)
• Mentoring for an SES aspirant in IPAustralia

References

Referee details can be provided on request

Contact Details

Ms Cheryl Hannah, Senior Consultant, FyreConsulting
Ph: +61 (0)2 4842 1142
Mob: +61 (0)4 2966 6619
Email: cheryl.hannah@netspeed.com.au
Web: www.hannahfyre.com.au