Configure It Done

Kicking off season 4 with Jay Wynter and special guest Peter Gilmer, and they chat with John Golfin and his interesting career and philanthropic efforts.

John Golfin, born and raised in Bondi Beach graduated as an Aeronautical Engineer in 1987 but ended up in a consulting team that brought SAP to Australia for the first time in 1989. He went on to manage some of the first and largest SAP projects in Australia, often involving huge business transformation, wall-to-wall SAP functionality, multiple sites, multiple vendors, teams of 300+ and budgets of $100m-$300m+. By the end of 2021, he was involved in 39 SAP and non-SAP projects and managed 18 of these from start to finish.

During this time he travelled to 98 of the 193 United Nations Member Countries in the world, ran several 10km+ runs in 92 of these and made over 20 major comedy-documentary films (www.golfcopictures.com) a film genre he invented in 1993. He shares these films with family, friends and work colleagues to raise money for a charity he founded in Australia (www.mercycentreaustralia.org) that supports an AIDS Children's Orphanage in the slums of Bangkok Thailand and a Mission in Freetown Sierra Leone looking after amputees disabled by the 1991-2002 Civil War.

John is now focused on completing his adventure/expedition style travels to the 95 remaining UN countries with more films to support his much-loved charity.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Peter Gilmer

Guests: John Golfin

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Join Jay and Richard as they talk to Amanda Oakenful who has over 25 years of professional experience in the public and private sector, where she has successfully delivered outcomes in the Resource and Defence, ICT, Telecommunications, Engineering and Health sectors from initial strategy development through to implementation delivery and on-going benefits realisation, growing businesses across Australia. 

Delivering the right solutions both strategically and operationally has been key to developing and maintaining successful outcomes and relationships for Amanda’s clients.  Amanda’s rare depth of understanding of delivery, implementation and operations provides the strong foundations that enable her proven success.  

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Richard Shaw

Guests: Amanda Oakenfull

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Join Jay and Bethany as they talk to people developer, dreamer, transformation initiator and sustainable solutions creator Alex Andrenacci. 

Alex looks after the SAP business and go-to-market framework for Technology Transformation in Asia-Pacific. His passion is centred around understanding the hearts and minds of the people he works with and the people he lives with, and hope that tomorrow they will do the same for others.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Bethany Nrekic

Guests: Alex Andrenacci

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Join Jay and Richard as they talk to Program Director, Cary Farmer. Cary's been managing successful complex transformation programs and projects for many years with a focus representing the customer, and with years of experience as a vendor, able to guide and steer customers to suitable solutions, and keep system integrators aligned and honest. Cary has a good grip on the methodology required, and this combined with his drive, experience and open transparent methods enables him to drive the customer, people and program successfully. 

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Richard Shaw

Guests: Cary Farmer

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Join Jay and Sara as they talk to Delivery Executive, DJ Bhattacharya from SAP Australia. His no.1 aim is to have a single face for SAP to the customer and deliver successful outcomes to them in a win-win way. DJ's sweet spot lies in working with teams and hence doing program management keeps a smile on his dial.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Sara De Cruz

Guests: DJ Bhattacharya

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Listen in as we discuss the perfect balanced partnership with ExpediteIT Directors Clive Mancey and Ashley Brown. 

Clive Mancey, a ten-pound Pom, started his SAP journey in 1997 when the French company he was working for decided to build an SAP corporate template for rolling out across their Smelters & Refineries and he was asked to join their project team in France.  In recent years Clive joined forces with Ashley Brown to form ExpediteIT where SAP projects still remain as relevant as ever.

Ashley Brown has spent most of her career working with SAP, having started with SAP R/2. Always enthusiastic, she is committed to supporting organisations in a streamlined approach to implementations, using best practice, leveraging from others, and not spending time and effort re-inventing solutions.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Sara De Cruz

Guests: Clive Mancey and Ashley Brown

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Welcome to season 3 of Configure It Done!

In Episode 1 we were lucky enough to have talented leader Cameron Berkman join us to discuss his leadership philosophy and approach to running a successful SAP Program.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Richard Shaw

Guest: Cameron Berkman 

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With a passion for travel and a love of SAP, Tina Barker has been able to traverse the World and apply her SAP trade to multiple clients in multiple countries for over 25 years. As a senior manager at Accenture, applying what she has learned from these travels and how different cultures work, Tina has adopted a “loose” management style, empowering the people she is working with to make the right decisions and apply the best work ethic to achieve successful projects.  

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Sara De Cruz

Guest: Tina Barker

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Manisha Sethi is a senior strategy execution professional with broad global experience in managing PMOs and delivery teams across a variety of industries. In the last 10 years, she has overseen the delivery of multiple SAP projects and programs. 

Her passion lies in bringing a commercial perspective to Portfolio Management and applying investment management thinking for portfolio decisions. She is known for her pragmatic approach to portfolio governance which seeks a balance between risk management and benefits delivery.

Her key mantras:

People make ALL the difference

Incentives drive behaviours

Progress over perfection

Join Jay Wynter and Bethany Nrekic as they discuss Manisha's experiences about diversity and inclusion in this episode.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Bethany Nrekic

Guest: Manisha Sethi

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Bruce McKinnon started his SAP journey way back in 1991, configuring R/2 at Esso in Sydney when he was a consultant at Andersen Consulting. Since then he’s managed a number of SAP consulting organisations, at PwC, IBM, SAP, EY and now back at Accenture. His teams have delivered SAP solutions at clients across many industries and countries all over the world. Join Jay Wynter as they discuss Bruce’s personal philosophy in leading teams through aiming to build trusted relationships – both with the people in his team and with his clients.

The 'ConfigureITDone' Podcast is the place where thought leaders in the SAP space share their insight, methodology, learning’s and unique stories on how to successfully lead large scale SAP Programs.

This podcast is in partnership with The Black Dog Institute who aim to create a mentally healthier world for everyone. If you wish to support the cause please donate via the link here

Host: Jay Wynter and Sara De Cruz

Guest: Bruce McKinnon

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Production and Artwork: Andriana Grbevska