You are cordially invited by The Victorian Vernier Society for Lunch on Thursday the 13th of November @1:00 for 1:30pm at The Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Rd, Kooyong.
The meeting will close around 3:30pm.
Please remember to bring cash to our lunch for paying the almoners for indiscretions for which you may be responsible.
For Friends of Vernier (who are financial) and general admission guests, please book using Humantix: events.humanitix.com/vernier-on-november-13-2025
Our program will include:
Don Kotchoff
Corporate customer relationship manager, incident and problem management consultant, corporate data governance lead, NBN Telco customer trials manager, Delivery Project Executive, Civil Aviation Airways Engineering.
Don has an extensive and wide ranging background over 50 years delivering IT solutions, culminating in the delivery of large IT programs to corporate customers, with contracts from $10m upward.
Examples:
- Corporate customer relationship manager
- delivered results of Telco NBN trials for use by hundreds of resellers
- led business Governance resulting in successful maintenance of very large corporate contracts
- Incident and problem management consultant
- managed a large household name Telco’s IT incidents to minimise customer outages
- Corporate data governance lead
- instigated unique data management processes to prevent unauthorised access to sensitive data of millions of Telco customers
- Delivery Project Executive
- delivered contractural IT service to maximise production time for a large drinks manufacturer.
- Civil Aviation Airways Engineering
- ground based navigational and communications equipment maintenance
Automating drinks manufacturing:
Topics
- Contracts management of hundreds of new vendors
- Incident and problem management
- Delivery quality (including offshore IT)
- Service level penalties
- Reducing complexity of IT for manufacturing drinks
- Financial advantages of automation
- Architecture/data centre/software lessons learnt
- IT-caused production line outages
