UT Consulting is comprised of 15 specialist consultants capable of servicing all major Australian cities, the Oceanic Region, and Singapore.
Our team is the largest specialist ICT & AV consulting team in Australia and our consultants have the advantage of working alongside experts in their respective fields.
Management Team
UT Consulting’s management team is comprised of industry experts with deep domain expertise.
Peter Clynes
Managing Director
Shaun Norden
ICT Director
Lee Blandthorn
Associate
Tom Carrie
Associate
Peter has been responsible for the design and project management of ICT, audio visual, videoconferencing and communications systems for over 25 years.
Peter has previously worked in multi-disciplined engineering consulting firms, as a specialist technology consultant and senior project manager in the Health, Education, Commercial and Justice sectors.
Peter is involved in all of UT Consulting's major infrastructure projects and is the lead technical advisor at UT Consulting. In this capacity he led our technical advisory services offering on landmark projects including the Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, New Bendigo Hospital and the New Royal Children’s Hospital
Shaun is responsible for overall ICT systems design and management on major projects. Shaun is UT Consulting's health sector lead and is currently working for the State as the Principal ICT Consultant for the Parkville Medical Precinct and the Frankston Hospital Redevelopment, Victoria.
Shaun specialises in Data Centres, LAN/WAN and Voice over IP (VoIP) design and technical interface requirements between the IT networks and various communications and audio visual systems.
Shaun has extensive ICT experience working directly with Hospital ICT Systems. Shaun previously worked extensively for the NHS in the UK implementing large IT infrastructure projects, including server virtualisation of physical servers and associated network storage. Shaun has worked directly within the ICT operations team at the main Hospital campus at Brighton University Hospital, England.
Shaun’s IT experience extends to the Government and Commercial sectors. Shaun managed the network and server environment for a major Government Department in Victoria for 10 years, and has experience in conducting forensic IT investigations for consulting firms in the private sector.
Lee is responsible for leading communications and information technology infrastructure design and project management across a breadth of projects. Lee has previously delivered major network upgrade projects to LAN, WAN and WLAN environments, physical to virtual server migration projects, major server and application upgrades to mission critical systems, disaster recovery strategies, desktop and hardware upgrade/rollouts in environments that require a high level of uptime.
Lee has over 18 years’ experience working in the Information and Communications Technology sector. Previously, Lee worked for St Vincent’s Health as a Senior Network Engineer, building and administering the hospital’s LAN, WAN, WLAN, Server, and Storage Environment. Since joining UT Consulting Lee has broadened his skillset and now works across the Commercial, Justice, and Health sector.
Lee has extensive hands on experience working in the deployment and management of multiple vendor product solutions, including firewalls, virtual server infrastructure, proxies, application load balancers, virtual desktop infrastructure, single sign-on technologies, application packaging and deployment, backup, storage infrastructure and BYOD appliances.
Tom is responsible for specialist audio visual systems design, consultation, and project management for all projects in Western Australia. As UT Consulting's audio visual lead, he also provides design quality assurance and validation throughout major projects.
Tom has managed all projects out of UT Consulting's Western Australian office. In this capacity, he has led the design, documentation, coordination, and project management of major audio visual technology deployments.
Prior to joining UT Consulting, Tom worked extensively in the audio visual industry across various roles. As the manager of an audio visual integrator’s WA branch, he oversaw the design and implementation of sophisticated audio visual and collaborative videoconferencing spaces in commercial and educational facilities.
Tom’s expertise in control system integration then led him to a position within Australia’s largest AV wholesaler, where he provided technical support for a leading global control system and digital signal management brand.
Our Difference
User Focused
When we work with a client we begin with meetings and workshops to collect and document the needs of key stakeholders.
The more complex the technology and its application (e.g. an operating theatre in a hospital), the more our consultants invest in ensuring we understands the users’ workflow. By understanding how the end user imagines the system will be used, we map our design to meet these needs and create a seamless technology experience.
During the information gathering and workshop stage of a project, our team focuses on listening to the user, asking good questions, and uncovering the users’ needs for the system.
UT Consulting is committed to providing bespoke technology solutions that address the requirements of the project’s stakeholders. Our team do not provide pre-package solutions, nor do we align ourselves with any specific products or supplier. On all projects our intention is to deliver a design informed by best practice, our teams’ decades of experience, and which ultimately caters to each client’s user needs.
Innovative & Independent
UT Consulting is independent from all suppliers, integrators, and engineering services consultants.
We believe consultants must maintain independence in order to protect their clients’ interests and have scope to innovate. If our clients want their technology to be the best, the most innovative, and the most secure this can only be done by selecting products and suppliers that excel in their niche.
We don’t believe any one technology company can provide a solution which will meet the customers’ needs right out of the box, especially in more complex operating environments.
Fundamentally, a pre-packaged technology design will have pre-packaged problems. To avoid this happening to our clients, we ensure our team are not obligated to specify any one company over another. We believe you must be independent to be innovative.
Specialised
The core of UT Consulting are our specialist technology consultants.
What makes our team unique is their hands-on experience using the technology packages they now design. With a robust practical, technical, and academic base our specialist consultants are industry leaders with a track record for delivering major technology packages.
UT Consulting has more talent in-house across the information technology, audio visual, and communications consulting field than any other organisation in Australia. For our clients, this allows us to deliver technology packages which consider the impact they will have across the IT, AV, and communications landscape. We believe technology packages cannot be designed in silos. At UT Consulting all our team have access to specialists in their respective fields so they can validate their designs in a broader technology context.
We also maintain Sector Leads for the key industries we service. Our Sector Leads specialise in the application of technology in the sector they oversee. For our clients, this provides them with access to specialists with the knowledge to design the system and the knowledge of how the system will be used in their context. UT Consulting currently employs Sector Leads in the Health, Justice, Education, Commercial, and Hospitality market.
Contact our experts today
To speak with a consultant and assess where we can support your project, please contact us today.
