Meet the Solutions Outsourced Team

When you choose Solutions Outsourced, you are choosing the best team of qualified professionals whose sum is greater than the parts.

Mark Kofahl

Mark is a founder and director of Solutions Outsourced Pty Ltd the vision for which arose from many years of commercial experience in the IT industry. Mark observed a number of very successful Silicon Valley firms pioneered the outsourcing revolution by actually concentrating solely on their core strengths and outsourcing the rest (primarily professional marketing services, legal, accounting and manufacturing). Playing an important role in the launch of a number of still prominent marketing leading brands, Mark's background in Accountancy serves him well when discovering the key drivers in your business and how best to leverage them. Mark is a director of a number of companies and is a Member of the Australian Instititue of Company Directors (MAICD)

Qualifications: B. Ec (Accounting), Macquarie University
Interests: Mark is also a commercial pilot and flight instructor. Mark also enjoys VW's, skiing, bushwalking and fine music.
 

Deborah Hammond

A founder and director of Solutions Outsourced, Deborah's tertiary qualifications (with Honours) in Management Studies serves as a firm foundation for the company's vision of delivering outstanding services to clients. An excellent tactician, Deborah's Marcomms (marketing and communications) strengths are unmatched in the region. Before founding Solutions Outsourced, Deborah gained a wealth of experience in a number of extremely fast paced industries, finally as a Marketing Manager for a large firm with significant marketing spend.

The most common questions she gets asked is who she supports in the Rugby - South African born, New Zealand educated, Deborah has made Australia home.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Management Studies (Hons.)
Interests: Deborah enjoys the outdoors - camping, hiking and skiing. She takes great joy in the company of her two little dogs - a dachsund (Wolfy) and a miniature pinscher (Fritz). July 2007 brought on a whole new world for Deborah (and Mark) with the birth of their son Max, and again in 2010, their daughter Alexandra. The two little dogs have now learnt to be dogs again.
 

Janinne Pemberton

Janinne controls the purse at Solutions Outsourced and ensures that everything runs like clockwork. Born and educated in the UK, Janinne has also worked in Germany, and more recently made the move to Australia with her family for the next challenge. Janinne has had extensive experience in both Practice and Industry Accounting, and previously trained and worked in Mechanical Engineering.

Qualifications: Trained Accounting Technician -Industrial and Practice Accountancy
Interests: Janinne enjoys spending time with her young family, including her husband and two sons, traveling, and getting to know Australian customs. She also enjoys keeping active, skiing, mountain trekking and gardening when she finds the time.
 

Brett Daniels

Brett is our lead programmer and brings to Solutions Outsourced expertise in all major platforms and languages. Never shy of a challenge, Brett thrives on any tricky problem looking for a solution. Unlike many programmers, Brett has a keen eye for design, a great sense for usability, and an ability to apply sound logical thinking to the code. As every outcome has a just right mix of usability, functionality and aesthetic, Brett is always happy to sign his name to the work.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Internet Science
Interests: When away from the computer, Brett is known to travel for hundreds of miles for a wine tasting (so long as the cheese is also vintage). He is also know to dance uncontrollably during introduction videos.
 

Zoë Moxon

Zoë looks after the print design department at Solutions, also managing some of our major clients websites and print campaigns in the process. Educated at one of Australia's leading design schools, Zoë takes pride in translating a customer's vision into visual cues that represent the values of their business.

Zoë brightens up the office each day with her friendly nature and famous smile. Always taking pride in the finished product, Zoë is the gal from Orange that makes us all look good.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Graphic Design and New Media
Interests: Zoë enjoys photography, music festivals, traveling between her homes by the ocean and the country, and further afield. She also enjoys good vege food, and of course, design.
 

Ricky Hobbs

Ricky's enthusiasm for design cannot help but excite any client about the possibilities that lie within any project. Ricky will rapidly turn your ideas into reality whether it be a double-sided tri-fold brochure or a 32-page catalogue, or somewhere in between. Ricky also maintains a keen eye for photography and adds pizazz to our electronic designs through sight and sound.

Qualifications: Advanced Diploma Of Graphic Design
Interests: When not creating fantastic print layouts, Ricky can be found indulging in his other passion as a club DJ. Ricky also enjoys extreme sports, Art, Music, and good design. He also makes a mighty good coffee!
 

Rabin Shrestha

Rabin joined the Solutions Outsourced team in 2007 to boost our programming capacity. Our Special Projects specialist, Rabin is quick to capture our clients goals and put them into web action. Experienced in back-end programming and databases, Rabin will help make a special project a reality in a short time frame. He brings a new kind of expertise to the team, having specialised in Software engineering at University.

Qualifications: Masters of Engineering Studies (Software Engineering)
Interests: Rabin does a bit of jet-setting between his home country Nepal and Australia, and more recently around all areas of Eastern Australia, enjoying the wine regions of NSW. Rabin also loves a good game of Foosball and isn't bad at Boules either. He has a magic touch when it comes to making momo's, a traditional Nepalese dumpling.
 

Olivia Micallef

Olivia has a steady eye for all things design and is always ready to tackle any new task that is throw her way. Olivia heads the web design department, bringing a lot of talent to this area. Her bubbly personality helps warm up the studio on those cold winter mornings, day after day creating artworks that amaze not only our clients but the design team as well.

Qualifications: Advanced Diploma Of Graphic Design (for which she graduated as most outstanding in her year)
Interests: Olivia takes every opportunity to get outdoors with family and friends. She is also known for her addiction to chocolate and for being wise beyond her years.

Brendan Murty

After devoting years of education to the area of Surveying, Brendan decided it was time to turn over a new leaf and start down a new path, his true calling: web development. The discipline and precision of Surveying endures in Brendan's new role: having an eye for pixel-perfection. What makes Brendan so unique is that he is a self taught web developer and a good one at that.

Qualifications: Self taught Web Developer
Interests: Away from his iPhone and computer Brendan enjoys watching Rugby League and soccer games. He also enjoys finishing off a busy week with one of his favourite Italian dishes, Pizza!

Emily Bailey

Emily is new to the design team, joining us permanently this year after spending a few months with us as an intern. Print media is her main focus although she has a keen interest in web design and marketing. Emily's joyful personality and smile make the office feel homely.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design
Interests: When not in the office, Emily loves going to concerts, cooking and snowboarding (during Winter of course). She is also known to cater for large numbers of people in one sitting, a great task of its own.

Miko Ademagic

Having recently graduated from university with a major in web development, Miko joins the team with fresh enthusiasm and a love for web design, which is a bonus for the designers.

Qualifications: Bachelor of I.T
Interests: Whilst keen on all matters web, Miko loves music. A keen guitarist, he is also known for his ability to easily access top shelves for all the out of the way bits and pieces. (He is easily the tallest member in the office).

Peter Schachtel

Peter joins us part time in the design room whilst he undertakes a Graphic Design and New Media degree at University. Helping us with anything that needs attending to in the web design department in particular, he is learning to work in a variety of design platforms. Peter really has a talent and love for illustrating (particularly comic style) which definitely adds a bit of fun to his designs.

Warren Galbraith

The 'all-rounder' on the Solutions Outsourced team. Warren is often seen riding in to save the day, lending his nimble hands to a great variety of technical and other items around the offices of Solutions Outsourced and that of its' clients. Assisting customers with day-to-day computer and operating system issues, to installing network cabling, to giving the lawn out the back the 'warren special', Warren always makes sure things are running smoothly for the team.

Warren is often found assisting Lifeline, and sorting through donated computer equipment.

Qualifications: Advanced Diploma of Computer Support
Interests: Warren keenly collects, sorts and clears out collectibles, antiques - and what to some may be referred to as junk.