A Professional Family Tree

Andrew Garner from Ernst & Young (EY) is now supposed to be leading a team to look at the what the new Queensland Health payroll solution should be. With this EY gig this rounds out a full complement of consulting firms getting different slices of the pie when it comes to Queensland Health and Shared Services provision in Queensland Government. Of course, we won't talk about it being consulting advice that recommended the whole shared services initiative and corptech in the first place. That discussion would sidetrack this blog post markedly.


My post was to congratulate Andrew on this gig. Since his recent connection to EY and more recent move back to Brisbane from Canberra, Andrew has been everywhere.

Some of you would know that Andrew was part of my team at Queensland Rail (QR). He, like all of us, learnt a lot on that project, and created some great results for QR. It is great to see him continue on as he has.

Andrew's boss at IBM was Norman Scott. Norman was the partner overseeing the IBM services we used at QR. A piece of trivia is that I hired Norman into his first ever job in Australia. It was a 3 mth contract as an Oracle programmer in the early 90's. I never saw Norman until almost a decade later. Norman never tells anyone that story. Perhaps it takes away from the mystique.

Having supervised at least two partners before they became partners in the big firms, maybe I should be seeking some talent spotting fees. I suspect I'd have a fat chance of that!

PS. If you are not sure what I am referrign to at Queensland Health, see this.