About.
Dutch Digital Dynamics Pty/Ltd was founded by Henk Harms early 1998 due to the need for quality analysis, management and standards compliance.
Photo taken on 19 January 2002, this is the crew I worked with during the 2001-2002 campaign.
From left to right.
Top row: Morty, the trusted fire truck, the fire went over it, through and under it at a later stage. .
Second row: TV Dude, Steve, Larry, Henk, Geoff, Camera Dude
Bottom row: Bronte, Adam, Sound Dude
Henk Harms is a classic example of a backpacking trip gone wrong; he arrived with his mate 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.
After saving enough money to buy a business suit, a mobile phone, pair of shoes and clean undies he quickly landed a computer job. Starting as a temp he caught the attention of the CEO of First Direct as being extremely talented and innovative, after some issues in the IT department Henk was put in charge of the IT team, and successfully put the team back on track during this time he discovered the gaps in the ICT industry when he got head-hunted by Optus he started his own company Dutch Digital Dynamics Pty/Ltd.
Working and living in Sydney he quickly became the person to get if, the job needed to be done on time, on budget and spot on. He worked across the globe for several different organizations in different capacities such as Principal Consultant, Program Manager working on projects with budgets up to 750 Million dollar. After several years at the top of his field he decided it was time to take a step back to give something back to the Australian public. 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 the detailed maps he produced now standard issue for several NSW RFS brigades.
During this time he attended more than 300 incidents a year such as fires, car accidents and fatalities, was part of the Inter Agency Emergency response team that 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.
In 2004 he decided to scale down his business by reducing his involvement in the hosting, network and VoIP branches, he now mainly focuses on the core business, Business Architecture development, coaching and documentation. During this time he also relocated his business and family in Dayboro/King Scrub QLD. This is just North West of Brisbane.
He is now running a successful consulting business and is well respected in the ICT industry in Brisbane for his ethics, skills and willingness to share his knowledge amongst peers in his field. 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.
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 by its founder Henk Harms, and has consultants through Australia, Netherlands and USA.
