GMT has significant experience in providing the full range of recruitment and consulting functions to support numerous industry sectors, with four examples listed below:

• Health
  
• Mining
  
• Utilities
  
• Banking and Finance
  

GMT has been working in the Health sector for five years and has developed significant skills, knowledge and experience in providing recruitment and consulting support. Much of this work has been conducted in the Queensland Department of Health (QH), the largest legislative Health entity in the Southern Hemisphere operating one of the top 10 largest IT Departments in Australia. QH provides IT services to over 270 Health facilities spread throughout Queensland and operates the largest ATM based Wide Area Network (WAN) in the country. It has governance over 21,000 workstations, 1000 servers, numerous database instances and over 20 large data centres. The budget for Corporate Infrastructure was in excess of $80m including over $40m in Capital Infrastructure programs and $25m in data and telecommunications spend.

Some of the consulting assignments conducted include:

• Project Direct in excess of $40 million in IT Infrastructure Projects.
  
• Project Direct the IT Security projects and provide advice and guidance for all projects that contained IT Security requirements. Specific Security Projects run by people from GMT Consulting Group included:
  
  • Delivering a $2 million dollar corporate Remote Access capability that allows individuals to securely access confidential information and services from anywhere in the world. This project took 12 months.
    
  • Delivering a Single Sign-on capability for multiple (in excess of 40 corporate and 100s of localised) applications. This replaces the current regime of individuals having between 10 and 20 sets of user credentials. This project has been ongoing for 2 years and is currently being rolled out across the State at a cost >$6m.
    
  • Implementing a Meta Directory across a very large geographically dispersed organisation with multiple silos of individually managed information. The Meta Directory will map all of these bodies of information to deliver a consolidated view of employees and customers alike. It will allow for excellence in provisioning and customer service. This is ongoing at a cost of approx. $1m.
    
  • Implemented a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) capability based on the Health Insurance Commission (HIC) PKI. The first operational use was to allow Pharmacies to securely transmit their Dangerous drugs of Dependence data into the Department. This project took 12 months at a cost of approx. $1.5m.
    
• Establish and manage the IT Security office within the Department.
  
• Establish the IT Security Architecture and oversee its implementation.
  
• Establish the Risk Methodology and oversee its implementation.
  
• Development, gain approval for and publish IT Security Standards for the Department.
  

GMT has been working in the mining industry for over three years, primarily within BHP Billiton. GMT is currently the preferred consulting house to BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) a joint venture company between BHPBilliton and Mitsubishi Investments that has a capitalised value in excess of $6 billion and an annual profit of approx. $1 billion. BMA is the world largest producer of coking coal, providing over 36% of the world's capacity. Information Technology (IT) service provision is outsouced to CSC with IT Management, service demand, analysis, planning and project management maintained within BMA IT.

To provide an example of GMT's capabilities, the following tasks were conducted over a twelve month period:

• Developed the IT strategic and business plans.
  
• Restructured the IT Department.
  
• Project Manager for the redevelopment of the 1st Priority safety system.
  
• Change Manager for the $3.5 million knowledge management implementation.
  
• Developed numerous business cases for the following capabilities:
  
  • The $17m Coal Area Network at a minimum capability of 100Mbps (The highest bandwidth regional network in the world).
    
  • Restructure of the IT organisation.
    
  • Re-develop the WAN
    
  • Insource business functions
    
• Facilitated and planned for Infrastructure and business system integration.
  
• Provided trainers and technical resources for the Knowledge Management roll out.
  
• Developed the BMA Enterprise Architecture.
  

GMT has significant State Government utility experience, with the following indicative of the consulting support provided to two electricity providers, Ergon Energy and Energex.

Ergon

Ergon Energy's network is the largest and most diverse electricity network in Australia, supplying electricity to 97 per cent of Queensland or 1.7 million square kilometres. Its infrastructure comprises more than 135,000 kilometres of electricity network, 800,000 power poles and 70,000 substations. Ergon Energy employs over 3500 staff throughout Queensland. GMT has provided the following consulting resources to Ergon:

• Project Manager - Ergon / Energex collocation.
  
• Project Manager - Switching and Access Diary.
  
• Change Manager - Safety Essentials Project.
  
• Business Analyst - Safety Essentials Project.
  
• Change Director - SCADA.
  
• Business Analyst - Work Allocation & Productivity.
  
• IT Officer - Public Lighting.
  
• Project Manager - Network Operations.
  
• Process Analyst - SCADA Project.
  
• Project Manager - EDRMS Project.
  

ENERGEX

GMT has significant experience working in the banking and finance sector. To demonstrate this experience the following consulting work has been conducted over an 18 month period with a single banking client:

• Established the Risk Methodology and oversaw its implementation.
  
• Developed, gained approval and published five IT Security Standards.
  
• Conducted Threat and Risk assessments on e-Commerce projects, initiatives, Infrastructure and Applications as required.
  
• Provided all IT Security modeling, threat and risk assessments for e-Commerce initiatives and projects, including the internet banking implementations and internet loans application.
  
• Applied Risk Management principles and techniques to the design and development of the bank's IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) Quality System including a high level IT DRP Standard, high level DRP Tests Procedure, DRP Pre-Test Procedure and Checklist, DRP Test Procedure and Checklist, high level IT Projects Procedure, high level Systems Management Procedure (covering Change Management and Problem Management), and amendments to the existing IT Project Statement of Work Policy, Statement of Work Template and Project Manager's Checklist.
  
• Developed the Threat and Risk Assessment methodology used by the IT Risk Management branch of the bank. The methodology was mandated for use during the development of IT Security Policies, the conduct of Threat and Risk Assessments, the conduct of on-going IT Risk Management and the development of IT Security Standards, Guidelines and Procedures. The methodology was used to develop the bank's ongoing Electronic Commerce Security Policy for use during the design and development of the Internet Banking Projects.