Andrew is the Biarri CTO. He is an optimisation expert and develops optimisation models and software. Andrew has a strong algorithmic expertise.
Ash is a Co-Founder and Director of Biarri Pty Ltd. He has more than fifteen years experience working in the information technology sector and particularly in developing and commercialising technology and information systems. In January 2009 Ash co-founded Biarri, a commercial mathematics start up which in two years has become one of the largest Australian-based providers of Operations Research.
Ash graduated from the University of Queensland and has previously held roles including as a Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, General Manager of Opcom, board member of Boeing Australia Holdings Limited, Country Head for Jeppesen’s Australian businesses and a Director of Jeppesen’s Global Rail & Logistics business. Ash has more than fifteen years experience working in IT and mathematical optimisation and particularly in developing and commercialising technology and information systems.
Ben is an optimisation guru with over 10 years experience developing and delivering the benefits of operations research to industry.
Bonnie is an optimisation expert at Biarri Pty Ltd. Bonnie leads the optimisation modelling team at Biarri and is responsible for the delivery of prototype models to clients.
From 2002 until 2011, David worked for Opcom, an Operations Research company founded in Brisbane by two mathematics professors. Opcom was subsequently acquired by Carmen Systems, a Swedish company, which was in turn bought by Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing.
During this period he worked in a variety positions including: consulting, software development, technical team lead, and R&D Development Manager. Most of this time was spent on OPCrew/RMS-R product which is a rail crew scheduling and rostering optimisation and day of operation decision support tool. He also spent some time on the PlanOp product which is a logistics optimisation tool for air, truck and crew scheduling.
Joe has been involved with optimisation companies for the last nine years primarily managing delivery, sales and marketing functions, a role he sees as being the ‘translator’ between mathematicians and business people.
From 2001-2012, John worked at Boeing in the Simulations software development team on various products and in various roles including R&D manager. John's work at Boeing included the design and implementation of discrete event simulation models, mathematical modelling, optimization and statistical analysis.
Prior to 2001, John worked as an Operations Research consultant and developer. Projects included the optimization of manufacturing processes and development of risk network modelling software.
Jonathon develops optimisation models and software. He has a strong algorithmic expertise.
Michael graduated with an Honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Queensland in 1985. He joined the startup Operations Research company of Opcom in January 1987. He was the primary driver of the company’s technical development while also working on his PhD in Mathematics (Operations Research). Michael became a full partner in Opcom in 1997, continuing to lead the growth of the company as Technical Director up to and during its acquisition by Carmen Systems in 2005, and the acquisition of Carmen by Jeppesen (a subsidiary of Boeing) in 2006.
As Chief Technical Officer of Jeppesen Rail & Logistics sector until February 2009, Michael had overall responsibility for the specification and design of Jeppesen’s major Rail and Logistics systems. Michael has more than twenty years experience in developing and commercializing information systems at Jeppesen, Carmen and Opcom.
Michael was project manager or team leader for the initial development of all of Jeppesen’s Rail and Logistics systems. Michael was also responsible for Jeppesen's research and development work, particularly in the areas of supply chain logistics, crew scheduling and vehicle scheduling.
In 2007 Michael was appointed to a 3 year term as Adjunct Professor of the Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland.
Since February 2009 Michael has worked 3 days a week in a catholic church youth organization, while lecturing part-time in Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology and in Mathematics at the University of Queensland.
Sebastian specialises in Industrial and Graphic Design. Since 1999 he has being working in web and interface design developing better ways of communication trough multimedia.