The Team

After spending too much time in universities and accounting firms, Anand founded Technocrat in 2009... and genuinely believes that he still runs it.

Anand's online and digital agency management experience stretches back to 1998 and since then he's also worked in the past, with clients such as Toyota, AAMI, and GIO. He is equally comfortable working with entrepreneurial, agile enterprises, as well as navigating process-rich, bureaucratic organisations. In addition to serving as Technocrat's leader, Anand works on all Technocrat's client engagements; advising our clients on all their digital strategy.

Anand enjoys sport...any sport.

Working in the online space since 1998 David has many years experience leading projects for digital agencies, advertising agencies, PR firms and creating his own online retail business.

Combining his creative, technical and information architecture skills David oversees diverse teams to ensure delivery of solutions with a strong focus on positive customer experience.

Client experience includes: Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, NRMA, Flight Centre, Wilderness Society, APIA, AAMI, Just Car Insurance, RACV, TAC VIC, Sustainability VIC, Worksafe VIC, DISSRTE, Toyota, John West, Leggos, Ribena, Mars, Electrolux, Covergirl, Australia Post, AXA & GE Money

John is an experienced technical analyst and process re-engineer. He favours lean, kanban and agile and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. From requirements creation for delivering multi-billion dollar government contracts, process redesign for big insurance, consultancies across a range of government and private firms and his work as a founding member of Technocrat, John has a breadth of experience to help clients achieve brilliant outcomes. To unwind, he makes macramé and arranges his extensive collection of decorative tea cosies.

As Technocrat’s Director of UX / UI, Jon draws from his considerable experience and passion in design and usability, to manage senior teams in the pursuit of crafting highly intuitive user experiences, from even the most complex web requirements.
Jon’s career encompasses a variety of global and specialty consulting firms and his entrepreneurial efforts resulted in a portfolio of successful web properties and operating a Toronto based design agency for over a decade.

User Experience Professionals' Association (UXPA) Member
Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Member
The Information Architecture Institute (IAI) Member
Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Member

Jon Kernutt serves as Technocrat’s Development Director. With 15 years experience as an IT professional, Jon has worked with a plethora of projects, roles, technologies, methodologies and clients - both in Australia and around the world. After gaining a Bachelor of Computing from Deakin university, Jon started as an Analyst Programmer and Database Engineer before going on to team lead, project manage and finally strategically manage large development teams. Jon has worked for significant Australian corporates such as Telstra and TRU Energy, run his own IT training company with 100+ employees, and been Technology Operations Vice President for a New York, mobile, social-networking start-up - managing a 45+ development team out of Argentina whilst co-ordinating resources in the UK and Europe. Jon’s diverse and lengthy experience ensures that the best processes, technologies and methodologies are brought to every project.

In 2009 Alexis joined the Technocrat team, bringing a wealth of experience and a flexible but defined approach through her exposure to both, print and web advertising early in her career. These primary design skills partnered with exposure to mature clients (NRMA, AAMI, Qantas, RACV, The Powerhouse Museum, Treasury Wine Estate, Weight Watchers, Western Sydney Parklands Trust) and an abundance of medium and smaller businesses (pubs, hotels, childcare centres, tradesmen, fashion designers and stylists) have accelerated her ability to understand brand recognition and reflect these core values through the work she produces.

Alexis can work from an idea or implement from a prescribed brief. Her ability to adapt to any situation but assert her creative streak is one of the reasons why she works so well with clients. When she's not pixel pushing Alexis loves to travel, go to the beach, enjoy great food and wine, and hang out with her enormous family.

Anna has been hanging out with geeky guys since early 2000 and this led to managing projects with the same geeky guys. She started her career in Finland and spent several years managing client projects with IBM and later with Tieto. In Sydney she has been managing web portal projects and now she has joined Technocrat to continue on the same path. She enjoys working with smart people and in a dynamic environment. She has a lot of experience of different portals and websites like IBM Websphere, Sharepoint 2010 and Drupal-based solutions. Her project leading style is a mix of Darth Vader and Jean-Luc Picard.

Austin is a user experience architect who's focus is on creating simple to use applications based on what are often not so simple and very wordy business requirements.

Austin has UX design experience in a large range of touch points including web, mobile applications, in-store digital kiosks and digital signage. He's worked with a long line up of well-known names in Australia including Telstra Bigpond Sport, Commonwealth Bank, Tourism Australia, Travelex and Hyundai.

When work is over Austin can be found outdoors somewhere.

User Experience Professionals' Association (UXPA) Member

A true creative spirit Aylie is inspired by anything visual. She began her career as a fashion designer after studying at the Hong Kong Polytechic, RMIT and the Royal College of Art, London. What she really wanted to do was make her illustrations come to life so she went back to college to study a certificate of Multi Media at the Sound and Engineering College, Sydney. Didn’t quite learn how to make her illustrations come to life but she did learn how to use the Adobe Suite.
That was back in 1997 when the web was really taking off, and she could see the creative potential and just had to be a part of it. 15 years later....how time flies.....she has loved being a part of its’ growth and how it has influenced and changed our lives.
She is now living the dream, working remotely in Far North Queensland, a few minutes walk from a beautiful golden beach lined with coconut palms while servicing clients through out Australia. She is inspired and in awe of her surroundings everyday. Dreams do come true!
Through the years she has designed the online and mobile space for many high profile companies and brands such as Elle Magazine, Australian Fashion Week, Issey Miyake Archive, I&S BBDO (Japan), Canon, Toyota, Truelocal, News.com.au, Carsguide, NRMA, RACV, Urban Walkabout, Tourism Queensland, Coca Cola, Mitre 10, Elastoplast Sport, Leuko, the list goes on...
She is artistic, ambitious, and is never without an inspired vision.

Bruce was a geek at school. Once out of school, he attempted to mitigate this by joining a rock band and spending the next ten years or so playing all around the country. Due to both his role in the band as the keyboard player, and also the typical repertoire of 70s / 80s pop and disc that he found himself performing, it's debatable whether this really had much effect on his geek status.
Before the turn of the century, Bruce had realised the need for a "real" job, and dived head-first into IT, teaching himself first HTML, then client-side technologies such as JavaScript, CSS and DTHML, before moving onto SQL, ASP, and later ASP.Net.
Since joining Technocrat - and taking crash courses in open source technologies such as PHP and Java - Bruce has gradually transitioned away from writing code and into the realms of technical architecture, solution design and requirements management.

The quintessential ‘jack of all trades’, Emma has been in the IT industry since 2001 and knows a little about a lot. Deciding to learn HTML at 13, she knew she didn’t fit in with the other little girls and has always felt more comfortable in a room full of geeks. She has previously been a designer and a front end developer, but now prefers Agile and client management. She has experience with large multi-nationals (GE, News) as well as small/medium sized businesses in a variety of industries.
Emma joined Technocrat in 2012 and primarily works on the IAG account.

James is one of Technocrat's senior web developers, with expertise in front-end and back-end development notably including a high level proficiency with the Drupal platform. He is a Zend certified PHP engineer with a Bachelor of Computing, and a Graduate diploma in Psychology. James has years of experience previously as the owner of his own web development business and has built many high-profile web sites during his career. He is a strong believer in open source development, is passionate about quality, and strives for perfection in all his endeavours. James lives in Melbourne with his wife Elizabeth.

Jin is a UX consultant who has previously worked in various industries expanding from online banking to retail and travel. She has been a designer in her previous lives and as much as she loves all things design, she has found her passion in being the voice of the customers and hasn't looked back.

During Jin's latest iOS app UX design project, she had accumulated 569 apps at one point. She's since been cured from her app hoarding.

User Experience Professionals' Association (UXPA) Member

John graduated with a PhD in digital communications from University College Dublin in 2009 and since then has lead a dual career; working as a part time web developer and part time researcher.

John's main research area is improving the performance of systems working with large XML data files. His web development skills focus on front end web technologies; developing websites, mobile web apps and responsive web projects using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

John is pictured here winning second prize at a recent Adam Jones lookalike competition.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Jonathan spent 10 years participating in the Edinburgh startup community.

Before arriving in Australia in November 2012 he contacted all the Drupal shops operating in Melbourne and determined that Technocrat would be a great company to work for. His instinct was proven to be sound.

With 7 years experience as a Drupal developer and 10 DrupalCons under his belt Jonathan was able to assist greatly with Technocrat's integration with the Drupal Community. He has contributed many patches to Drupal Core.

Joseph De Araujo is a website designer & developer. Starting out as a graphic designer, he learnt to adapt his skills to website design & progressed to website development. He found a balanced aptitude towards creative & technical aspects of website development & loves learning new technologies.
He's married and a father of two, so when he's not playing webmaster, he's probably roasting marshmallows in the back yard.
In the future he hopes to have more time to play with his electronic music equipment & software.

Laura graduated from UCD, Dublin in 2003 and decided to brave the Irish tech job market. Laura worked as mobile phone games developer for 2 years making fun mobile java apps for a tiny start-up company.

Lured by a comfortable office and free breakfasts, she moved to the global company Cybertrust where she worked as a developer and a PKI consultant for 2 1/2 years. During this time she transferred to sunny Australia where she hoped to learn to surf.
She then went on to work as a software security architect for Salt group for 18 months. She completed her CISSP exam and worked with awesome bank security systems. She did not learn to surf.

Laura has been at Technocrat since June 2009 where she works in cutting edge research and development. She still cannot surf.

A Top Gun Lead Java developer minus the F-14. Martin has worked for and consulted to major multinationals such as HP, Microsoft, Ericsson, local heavy hitters such as Commonwealth Bank, St. George Bank and successful start-ups such as Curam Software Ireland. His experience spans 15 years working on 3 different continents across industries such as finance, telecommunications, IT, universities, and pharmaceuticals.

A good communicator, Martin has recently developed a keen interest in public speaking joining Toastmasters and performing a comedy set in front of a side splitting audience. He applies these skills assisting clients to turn their business needs into technical requirements with ease.

Pete couldn't decide whether to study computers or electronics at Uni, so chose both. He's been building and designing websites since 1991, while studying a Dual Degree in Computers and Electronics at RMIT in Melbourne (we won't show you his early attempts). Originally from Melbourne, he moved to the UK in late 2000, where he joined Presence Online Limited - the makers of Aptrix [now called IBM Web Content Manager (WCM)] - and began his career as a technical web content management consultant.

In 2002, Pete set up his own company and began consulting worldwide, to clients using IBM WCM and now has over 12 years experience behind him. He joined Technocrat in August 2012.

Simon is a Geelong boy who found his way into technology in his mid-20s after a fortuitous run-in with an Excel spreadsheet. His early experience was as a business analyst programmer working with Microsoft products, but he soon switched to open source products such as PHP and then Drupal.

Si has been active in the Drupal scene for 7 years, running some of the first Drupal meetups and camps in Australia. He also ran the first significant Drupal shop in Australia, Em Space. Many hats have been worn: business owner, mentor, trainer, developer, advocate. He is at times a stable release, and at other times a few hooks short of a module.

Stuart hails from a background of digital interface design, having made his mark in agency land over the past 15 years. Unlike other creative types, Stuart has no beard, refuses to ride a ‘fixie’ and will not wear ironic apparel. And yet he loves design, clever usability and the smell of pixels in the morning.

Oh, and he has an insatiable love for motorcycles...

Lorem ipsum... With influences as diverse as Terry Gilliam and Ninja Turtles, my work goal is a quest to find panacea for perfect balance between noble individuums and semiconductor based multimedia experiences of various sizes.
In the last decade I was lucky enough to learn array of languages: native tongue, musical dialects and languages of the machines. I have successfully mixed the latter with my professional practice and currently focus on the likes of Drupal & various mobile technologies. Ars longa, vita brevis.