Brian Watts

CEO & Managing Director

Bachelor of Business (Information Processing), Western Australian Institute of Technology (W.A.I.T.) / Curtin University of Technology (C.U.T.)

Graduate Diploma of Education (Computing, Mathematics) C.U.T., M.A.C.S.

Brian is the CEO & Managing Director of Kohlbahdin Pty Ltd. An accomplished presenter and speaker, Brian has traveled on business widely and presented on strategic ICT topics locally and globally, including Dublin, Florence, Sydney, Gold Coast and Melbourne, including papers on the following topics: IT Balanced Scorecard Performance and Tuning Service Level Management Various papers and presentations

He is also a highly sought after and experienced consultant who has more than 23 years of experience in the ICT industry, having worked with large government and commercial corporate organisations. Industries sectors engaged with include SAS Risk Management for Basel II work in Financial sector, SAS reporting, analytics and forecasting with Insurance, Mining, Utility, Manufacturing, Distribution, Public sector organisations including serving in the past as an education IT curriculum Industry representative.

His breadth of both business and technical experience enables him to guide delivery of a wide range of ICT services to commercial and public sector organisations, with particular interest in capacity, performance and availability of systems delivering business services, and experienced in a wide range of infrastructures, Mainframe, UNIX, Windows, Networks, Communications and Storage.

Brian is also the regional expert (Asia Pacific) in SAS IT Intelligence Solutions and is the accredited instructor for delivery of SAS IT Intelligence (ITRM) training. He has implemented solutions for customers in Korea, Singapore and Australia. His SAS skills and experience underpinned his recognition as a SAS Certified Trainer in 2004. Brian has skills in ICT Performance Management, Capacity Planning, and Service Level Management.

He is a recognised SAS 9 Platform installation and configuration consultant, and is an accredited SAS 9.2 migration consultant.

Brian leads an organisation who recruits skilled specialists who share the passion of helping customers to obtain the best value possible from their ICT investments.