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ILC Staff

The ILC team members located in Brisbane and Mackay.

Ron Norman
General Manager
Brisbane / Mackay

Ron started his ~30 year career in managing complex supply chains in the highly dynamic and competitive fast moving consumer goods industry and successfully transferring this knowledge into the mineral extraction and mineral processing industry supplying finished product across the globe. Ron has held various management roles including Production Management, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management as well as Strategic Master Planning using Static and Dynamic Simulation Modelling. Ron joined the ILC in 2009 and has worked closely with ILC Board of Directors (13 Stakeholders) to establish the Master Planning Team and develop the Strategic Master Plans for the Dalrymple Bay Coal Chain.

Nicholas Harris
DBCC Co-Ordinator
Mackay

In early 2010 Nicholas began work with the ILC while studying a Bachelor of Information Technology at CQUniversity in Mackay, which he completed in March 2012.  While employed with the ILC, Nicholas re-designed and commissioned the now active ILC Supply Chain Analytics (SCA) solution which allows for unparalleled independent supply chain analysis. Nicholas’ skills have been employed across all facets of the ILC’s scope of business including performance reporting and forecasting and has transitioned into Dalrymple Bay Supply Chain Co-ordinator. This role is responsible for monitoring and communicating the performance of the revised Dalrymple Bay Supply Chain operating mode introduced in 2015. Nicholas currently oversees the train planning process for Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal responsible for identifying and reporting emerging supply chain constraints to ILC’s shareholders.  He also has a Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management with Distinction from RMIT completed in 2020.

Lyn Valentine
Executive Assistant
Brisbane

Lyn joined ILC Brisbane in 2012 and comes with a wide breadth of experience gleaned from many years working across a multitude of arenas – military, hospitality, medical, manufacturing, mining, logistics, transport, financial services, academia.

Michael Neaton
Senior Supply Chain Analyst
Mackay

Michael joined the ILC team in September 2012, having worked at CQUniversity in Rockhampton for 8 years in a variety of roles. During the final 3 years at CQUniversity, he was the Senior Reporting Analyst in the Statistics area of the Strategy & Planning Directorate. His role at ILC is to provide comprehensive regular and adhoc coal chain analysis and reporting to ILC Shareholders, updating coal chain maintenance data, ensuring data quality and integrity, and maintaining the ILC database system. As part of his role, he also attends and presents at the monthly SOMM along with attending other DBCC forums.  Michael is a qualified High School Teacher with a Bachelor of Education (Secondary - Commerce / Mathematics) from QUT and a Bachelor of Business from CQUniversity.  He also has a Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management with Distinction from RMIT completed in 2021.

Cameron Lock
Master Planning & Simulation Modelling Specialist
Brisbane

Cameron joined ILC Brisbane in July 2018, after a long association with ILC through their partnership with The Simulation Group (TSG). He has 25 years of analytical consulting experience in the resources, energy, rail and infrastructure sectors.  He is experienced in the delivery of simulation studies of coal supply chains, including the Dalrymple Bay Coal Chain, the Adani Abbot Point Coal Terminal, and Indonesian river barging export systems. He has delivered simulation studies for a range of clients including Rio Tinto Alcan, Glencore, BHP, Aurizon Operations, Hydro Aluminium and Fortescue Metals Group.  Cameron has a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from UNSW with 1st Class Honours.

Lachlan Thompson
Supply Chain Analyst
Mackay

Lachlan joined the ILC team in October 2018 after completing a Bachelor of Information Technology (Co-Op) at CQUniversity in Mackay.  His role at ILC is to provide assistance to both the DBCC Co-Ordinator and the Senior Supply Chain Analyst while learning about the coal chain environment and supply chain logistics.  Duties include data analysis and maintaining the database and reporting system.  He also has a Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management with Distinction from RMIT completed in 2022.

Dr Anna Foeglein
Simulation Lead
Brisbane

Anna’s role at TSG was as a Simulation Consultant/Senior Consultant, a position she held for 7 years and she joins the ILC with proven analytical, problem solving and modelling skills, together with broad programming and technology experience.  In 2005, Anna graduated from University Erlangen, Germany with a Diploma in Mathematics, minor in microbiology followed in 2009 with a Doctoral Degree in Mathematics with the research area being Partial Differential Equations, again from University Erlangen, Germany.

Louise Rogusz
Accountant & Company Secretary
Brisbane

Louise has performed the ILC’s accounting function since 2013 and in October 2019 expanded her responsibilities within the ILC to include R&D and providing commercial advice for simulation modelling studies.  In February 2020, Louise took on the role of Company Secretary for the ILC.  Louise is an experienced CPA-qualified accountant and commercial analyst. She worked in the professional consulting industry for 8 years before joining the ILC.  Prior to this, Louise worked for Aurizon (previously QR and QR National) for 9 years in Commercial Analyst and Key Account Manager roles as well as 3 years in banking and finance.

Dr Christine Nicholls
Simulation Specialist
Brisbane

Prior to joining TSG, Christine studied at the University of Vienna and is the holder of the highly sought after Lise Meitner fellowship, which is an Austrian Science Fund programme designed to attract excellent foreign researchers to Austria.  In 2007, Christine graduated from Australia National University with a B.Sc.Hons in Physics with First Class Honours in Astronomy & Astrophysics, followed in 2011 by a Ph.D in Astronomy & Astrophysics.  In 2017, Christine undertook a Course in Machine Learning, which saw her receiving a course certificate with a grade of 97.3% from Stanford University.

Andrew Cramer
Technical Lead
Brisbane

Bio coming soon

Iain Jensen
Undergraduate Simulation Scientist
Brisbane

Currently in his final year of a Bachelor of Computer Science at The University of Queensland, Iain is working as a software developer and simulation scientist. Under the guidance of the Master Planning and Simulation Manager, Iain is involved in analysis of the Dalrymple Bay Coal Chain through the ongoing development of ILC's data reporting systems and simulation studies, to support data-driven decision making for coal chain participants.

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