About.

Dutch Digital Dynamics Pty/Ltd was founded by Henk Harms early 1998 due to the need for quality analysis, management and standards compliance.

Henk Harms is a classic example of a backpacking trip gone wrong; he arrived with his friend in 1994 whilst backpacking around the world. He liked Australia so much that he decided to stay and he started to work the usual backpacking jobs like filling envelopes and the odd other jobs, during this time he met his wife.

After saving enough money to buy a business suit, a mobile phone, pair of shoes and clean undies, he quickly landed a computer job due to his education and back-ground.

 

Starting as a temp at First Direct, he caught the attention of the CEO of being extremely talented, visionary and innovative. During this time the IT department was fasing serious issues resulting in removing the IT Manager. Henk was put in charge of the IT team, successfully put the team back on track, setting up a succesful and reliable service for its customers. Not ready to settle down in the management postition he decided it was time to move on and start his own company. He got head-hunted by Optus and started his own company Dutch Digital Dynamics Pty/Ltd, to fill the gap between business and IT consulting in Australiay.

Working and living in Sydney he quickly became the go-to guy if, the job needed to be done on time, on budget and spot on. He worked across the world for in different fortune 500 companies and organisations, as Principal Consultant specialising in bringing Technology and Business together. As Program Manager working on projects with budgets up to $ 750 Million dollar or in a Architecture and Business consultancy role with the attitude of make it happen and get it done.

 

After several years at the top of his field, and with the ever expanding business across multiple disiplines and organisations, he decided it was time to take a step back. Enjoy life and to give something back to the Australian community. He joined the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS), sponsored local community groups and mapped remote areas in the Blue Mountains using his knowledge of GPS, Computer Systems and GIS. Created detailed maps of potential danger areas and fire maps, because of his vision and inovative thinkink, most brigades in the Cumberland Region have now detailed maps of tracks and potential danger zones.

During this time he attended over 300 fire, car, accidents and fatality incidents a year. He was part of the Inter Agency Emergency response team, which was deployed to fight the 2001 X-mass fires in the Blue Mountains, and Sydney, for a period of several months. He was called upon again for a long term deployment when the fires destroyed large areas of Canberra.

 

He received Recognition for protecting and saving life and property during the 2001-2002 Bushfire Campaign (Awarded by the NSW Premier Bob Carr), a personal Letter of appreciation from Phil Koperberg (NSW RFS Commissioner) and a medal for his involvement in the Canberra (Duffy disaster) fires. More recently he appeared on the cover of "Great Australian Bushfire Stories" written by Ian Mannix.

In 2004, after some interesting times and becomming a dad, he decided to scale down his business even further, reducing his involvement in the the web-hosting, network design and VoIP/PABX branches of the organisation. He now mainly focuses on the core business, Business and Enterprise Architecture development, coaching peers in the industry and advices on industry standards and large architecture implementations.

 

He relocated his business and family to Dayboro/King Scrub QLD. This is just North West of Brisbane, our head office is still located in Morgan Street, Kingsgrove NSW with small offices in Port, Tamworth, Lismore and Grafton.

 

He is now running a successful consulting business and is well respected in the ICT industry in Brisbane and amonghst the peers in his field for his ethics, skills and willingness to share his knowledge.

 

He is a sought after speaker at BPM, UML and Community Modeling conferences, seminars and is an active member of several Modeling forums promoting modeling techniques and architectures.

 

In his spare time he enjoys time with his family, local community and neighbors (with a good glass of red wine) on his hobby farm and still provides services for free to the local community such as his online weather station, company sponsorship, alternative energy guidance and web-hosting.

 

Dutch Digital Dynamics Pty/Ltd is privately owned non listed company, and has consultants through Australia, Europe and USA.