Brian Evans

Brian Evans

Dataflex Owner & Managing Director (MD)

Location: Canberra

Brian Evans is the founder of Dataflex, and continues to oversee the growth of the company. In 1987, after a successful career working for some of the worlds best known IT internationals, Brian established Dataflex with a staff of just two people. The vision was to build a privately owned Australian SME company that delivers high level product and service knowledge, with the highest standards in customer service. It is a model that has proven extremely successful. Today, the company has grown to be recognised as an industry leader in the highly competitive Federal Government space, and has been recognised with a number of industry accolades, including being awarded the CRN magazines converted ‘Fast 50′ award for growth. Dataflex employees over 35 staff across three sites and markets products from over 230 national and international vendors.

Chris Churchill

Chris Churchill

General Manager (GM)

Location: Canberra

Chris Churchill has been in the IT industry for over 17 years. Chris has worked primarily in sales and sales management for a range of IT companies including: Dataflex, Acer Computers, TPG, APCD & Allbids.
Chris has experience in dealing and negotiating with Government at the highest levels including managing complex roll outs and sales delivery.

Andreas Deakin

Andreas Deakin

Northern Region District Manager QLD

Location: Canberra

Andreas has spent over 15 years in the ICT Industry and manages the Northern Region Dataflex office based in Brisbane QLD. Andreas will work primarily on local and state government opportunities in Queensland as well as federal government business in Townsville and Darwin. Previous roles held by Andreas include : Dataflex Chief Technical Officer (CTO) , IT Manager for an automotive supplier (7 years), Principal Consultant at Casolute (2.5 years), ITIL process development for the Gerling insurance company (3 years). Andreas is a highly experienced manager and has a sound understanding of sales, technical planning, design, architecture, probity, purchasing and accountability policies and guidelines.

Simone Davies-Brown

Simone Davies-Brown

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Location: Canberra

Simone Davies-Brown recently joined Dataflex as CFO having run her own successful accounting firm for 10 years. Prior to running her own firm Simone has had extensive experience as a Financial controller working for several large local Canberra companies. Simone has had 19 years experience in total in the financial industry. Simone qualifications include:

/   Bachelor Business in Accountancy

/   Certified Practicing Accountant with Public Practice Certificate

/   Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning)

Patrick Cheetham

Patrick Cheetham

Infrastructure Solution Architect (ISA)

Location: Canberra

Patrick Cheetham is responsible for Cloud Solutions and Data Storage Architecture within Dataflex.

Patrick holds enterprise technical and design certifications with Hitachi Data Systems, VMware, Brocade and Cisco and has 8 years experience in ICT design for Federal Government.

Architecture experience includes:

/   Design lead on the Geoscience Australia Large Scale NAS

/   Ongoing consultancy with Centrelink Open Systems SAN team

/   Ongoing consultancy with the Australian National University

/   Design lead on the Australian Sports Commission

Jason Green

Jason Green

Services Manager (SM)

Location: Canberra

Jason has spent over 12 years in the ICT Industry and manages the activities of the Dataflex consulting and services area. Jason Green is responsible for all Services within Dataflex, this includes Project Management, Warranty Repairs for Acer & Dell, IT Logistics for numerous clients and the Managing Customers IT requirements in small to Medium businesses. Jason is a highly experienced manager and has a sound understanding of technical planning, design, architecture, probity, purchasing and accountability policies and guidelines. Jason is a Prince2 Certified Practitioner with experience in enterprise technical and design specifications for Microsoft and IBM Systems.

Project experience includes:

/   Ongoing management with Centrelink Desktop Rollout team

/   Ongoing consultancy with the Eurobodalla Shire Council

/   Design lead on the ACT Brumbies IT Upgrade

/   Creation and Management of the new Dataflex SOE offerings

/   Project Managed the new Dataflex Logistics and Integration Centre

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