Management Team

Detlev Harms

Founder and Managing Director of Harms Consulting

Detlev founded Harms Consulting in 1996 and has headed the management team ever since, building a strong value based organisation.

“I’ve always wanted to put people first. I started my IT career in the 80s when complex large scale projects often resulted in burnout of consultants and stretched client relationships. People left projects unhappy and unrewarded. Many clients were confused about the value consulting organisations offered.

“What I’ve implemented is a strong value system we can all subscribe to. It motivates us to get up and go to work in the morning and be the best we can be for our team and our clients. I constantly challenge everything we do based on these values.

“We’ve grown consistently and the fact we work almost exclusively with long term satisfied customers shows we have the right focus. Most people know us for our expertise in the Real Estate sector, which is an important differentiator for us. We also have a very successful SAP Application Management Team, with a reputation of not only running SAP in an efficient manner, but improving business value significantly at the same time.

“I‘m lucky to have an exceptional team; some of the best professionals I’ve come across in my career. My goal is to grow this team and expand our reach in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.”

Detlev studied Information Science and Business management in Germany and started his career as a SAP consultant and developer in the Oil & Gas industry, in Hamburg, in the late eighties, before migrating to Australia. He knows SAP from the ground up and still gets involved in solution design as well as project governance.

Bruce McEwen

Non-Executive Director

Bruce joined the Harms Consulting board, in 2006, as a Non-Executive Director. Shortly afterwards in 2007 he established Technical Real Estate Pty Ltd, a Property development business specialising in the design and development of 'Next Generation' Data centres in Australia. Currently TRE has a $1 billion data centre project underway, in Canberra. Data centres are complex and highly engineered buildings providing the necessary infrastructure on which the world’s computer systems rely.

For more than 24 years Bruce worked in senior management positions with IBM, across Asia Pacific.

Eric Wimphen

Director - SAP Real Estate Management

Eric joined Harms Consulting in April 2008 with a career spanning more than 15 years in the Financial Market, Business Consulting and SAP integration. Eric has held leadership and hands-on business strategy and delivery positions with various management and information technology consulting firms in Europe and more recently in Australia. He has successfully delivered a number of technology enabled business transformation projects, often involving SAP ERP implementation. In Europe, he sold and delivered SAP Real Estate implementations to large organisations and was also involved in post implementation reviews and optimisations.

Eric leads Harms Consulting’s SAP Real Estate Management team encompassing the delivery of SAP Real Estate consulting services to clients across Australia and New Zealand. Eric’s team has the skills and capabilities to deliver all types of Real Estate processes across the major property markets.

Eric graduated from ISC Paris, Graduate School of Management and has a Masters in Management of Information System from ESCP Europe (European School of Management).

Chris O’Brien

Manager – Application Management Services

Chris has worked with Harms Consulting in various roles since 2004. Initially as a senior FI/CO consultant and Support Manager, he now holds the position of Manager – Application Management Services.

He has more than 13 years international and domestic SAP experience across a variety of industries working in implementation, upgrade and support roles.

The Harms Consulting AMS team is lead by Chris and is responsible for ensuring our clients maximise the benefits offered by their SAP systems; this includes fully outsourced solutions as well as complimenting in-sourced support teams on a regular, ad hoc or project basis.

Chris holds a professional level SAP FI Certification in ECC6.0, a Bachelor of Business in Marketing and Finance from UTS and is a member of Finsia’s Regional Council for NSW/Tas.

June Henning

Marketing and Public Relations Manager

June joined the Harms Consulting management team in December 2006, having acquired international Marketing and Public Relations credentials across a diverse range of industry sectors. She has managed sales and creative teams of up to 20 people and controlled Marketing and Public Relations budgets in excess of A$6 million.

Her role at Harms Consulting encompasses the development of an on going, proactive Marketing and Public Relations Strategy and the creation of tailored Marketing and Public Relations plans for each Business Unit combined with the responsibility of implementing the individual plans.

June is tertiary educated and an Associate Member of the Australian Marketing Institute of Australia and a member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia; in 2006 inducted into the Golden Key International Honours Society for Scholastic Achievement and Excellence.

Admission to the Golden Key International Honours Society is in recognition of the highest achievers across national and international University qualifications worldwide.

Girlie Brotonel

Human Resources and SAP Resource Manager

Girlie Brotonel joined the Harms Consulting team, in September 2008, as Resource Manager and a member of the management team. Girlie's background in sales, marketing, recruitment and management coupled with SAP industry knowledge, provides a core foundation for the responsibilities of her role which encompass people management, resource planning, business development and account management.

Girlie oversees a team of Harms Consulting employees and contractors with expertise in SAP Business Intelligence, Basis, NetWeaver, Logistics and Finance.

Presently Girlie is completing her SAP Certification in Integration of Business Process and an MBA   at the University of Sydney.

Sharon Peake

SAP Support Manager

Sharon joined Harms Consulting in 2007, with over 10 years SAP experience both in SAP project implementations and managing SAP Support Teams.  Sharon’s consulting strengths are in the Financials, Controlling and Real Estate modules, with a solid knowledge of integration with all other modules, in SAP.

The core support team managed by Sharon comprises Basis, ABAP, FI/CO, HR/Payroll and Real Estate consultants.  The flexible nature of the application management agreement allows for specialist skills such as BI and Solution Architecture, to be sourced from the wider Harms Consulting group, as and when required.  The team not only provides day to day support for SAP, but endeavours to continually improve the SAP solution delivering maximum value to the client.

Sharon’s career prior to SAP was as a management accountant and managing finance teams.  Sharon has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an MBA both from the University of Queensland.