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BUSINESS ANALYST
South Australia - Australia
Job # 11-2008
Status: Closed 17 March 2008
Successful candidate has started
Mr Richard Wiwatowski has joined COGITA in Adelaide. Mr Wiwatowski will be supporting COGITA's growing portfolio of clients who have purchased Epicor's manufacturing ERP software system. Mr Wiwatowski reports to Senior Consultant Mr Alex Fiedler in COGITA Adelaide.

ERP APPLICATION CONSULTANTS - MANUFACTURING & FINANCE
Victoria - Australia
Job # 9-07
Status: Closed 3 March 2008
Successful candidate has started
Ms Rodica Roeder has joined COGITA in Melbourne. Ms Roeder was a senior consultant and project manager for, Melbourne company, Uniware Pty Ltd, a leading Australian supplier and developer of commercial business systems. Ms Roeder will provide financial systems consulting support and services to COGITA clients throughout Australia and join the COGITA implementation projects for Epicor's ERP system. Ms Roeder has been to COGITA's New Zealand offices for induction and to meet some of her new Kiwi colleagues.

ERP APPLICATION CONSULTANTS - MANUFACTURING & FINANCE
Manukau City, Auckland - New Zealand
Job # 7-07
Status: Closed 14 January 2008
Successful candidate has started
Ms Maree Hill has joined COGITA in Manukau City. Ms Hill was a production supervisor for a manufacturing company in Auckland, New Zealand. Ms Hill's hands-on manufacturing experience gives her one of the finest backgrounds to be an effective manufacturing ERP system support consultant. Ms Hill will join the implementation projects, throughout New Zealand, for COGITA clients who have purchased Epicor's ERP manufacturing system.

PROJECT MANAGER
Manukau City, Auckland - New Zealand
Job # 9/9-07
Status: Closed 3 December 2007
Successful candidate has started
Mr Daniel Gozzini has joined COGITA in Manukau City. Mr Gozzini is responsible for understudying COGITA's existing project manager based in New Zealand. Mr Gozzini will focus on COGITA's ciritical chain based project management methodology and its use in the implementation projects for manufacturing systems purchased by COGITA clients in New Zealand.

PRE-SALES CONSULTANT
Sydney - Australia
Job # 9/9-07
Status: Closed 12 November 2007
Successful candidate has started
Mr Frank Mcloughlin has joined COGITA in Sydney. Working previously for leading Australian software vendor Cincom, Mr Mcloughlin joins COGITA's Australian sales force and will work closely with the existing sales team in COGITA Sydney. Mr Mcloughlin will focus on sales of Epicor's, highly regarded, ERP manufacturing software.

Technical Services Engineer: Adelaide - New Zealand
Job # 16-07
STATUS: CLOSED 31 AUGUST 2007
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr Daniel Mitchell has joined COGITA in Adelaide. Mr Mitchell was working for a local Adelaide company. As part of COGITA's technical services group Mr Mitchell reports to Mr Mark Schubert. During September Mr Mitchell will be familiarising himself with COGITA support systems and visiting COGITA clients in South Australia.

Network Engineer: Manukau City - New Zealand
Job # 6-07
STATUS: CLOSED JULY 2007
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr Richard Pearce joined COGITA in Manukau City. Originally from London Mr Pearce was working for a network support company in Auckland, New Zealand. As a Manukau City resident and keen cyclist Mr Pearce was looking for a company with offices in Manukau City. After years of travel, at times on congested motorways, Mr Pearce did not want to spend any more of his life on time killing roads getting to work and home. COGITA's extended network support requirements and entrepreneurial approach were very attractive to Mr Pearce.

Presales Consultant: Manukau City - New Zealand
Job # 5-07

STATUS: CLOSED JUNE 2007
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Ms Sandy le Roux joined COGITA in its Manukau City offices in New Zealand. Ms le Roux is part of the COGITA sales force and works closely with Ms Becky Driver, COGITA Director of NZ Operations, and Mr Roger Watson, COGITA Sales Executive.

Sales Executive ~ Manufacturing ERP Systems: Sydney - Australia
Job # 1-07
STATUS: CLOSED MARCH 2007
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr Peter Lanigan was the successful candidate. Mr Lanigan had been selling earth moving equipment for an international capital equipment organisation. With no two sales identical, and intelligent needs analysis required to sell products and services successfully for his previous employer, Mr Lanigan is looking forward to applying his sales skills in his new sales role in COGITA.

ANZ Helpdesk Support Consultant: Manukau City ~ New Zealand
Job # 3-07
STATUS: CLOSED MARCH 2007
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Ms Elaine Dyett was the successful candidate. Ms Dyett takes over the primary support desk operation from Mr Tobi Vaudrey who led COGITA through its major HelpNet upgrade in February 2005 and placed HelpNet on new foundations which now support HelpNet's operation. A Manukau City resident Ms Dyett was previously employed by a local software house. Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role.

Sales Executive ~ Manufacturing ERP Systems: Melbourne - Australia
Job # 5-11.06
STATUS : CLOSED JANUARY 2007
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr John Haley was the successful candidate who started with COGITA on 22 January 2007. Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Haley has a strong record in sales related to the manufacturing ERP systems sector and will be devoted to selling the ERP system into Victoria and South Australia. More details to follow.

Graduate ~ Accounting & Finance: Manukau City - New Zealand
STATUS : CLOSED DECEMBER 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Peter Meng was the successful candidate who filled this role in our Manukau City (Auckland) office. Mr Meng was previously with Soifua Limited in April 2005 (see below). Mr Meng is a 2006 graduate, with excellent A and A+ passes in most papers of his accounting & finance Bachelor's degree, from the University of Auckland. A high achiever Mr Meng is an international student, born in the PRC China mainland, and has been offered an honours programme by Auckland University. Mr Meng will be assisting COGITA's two major shareholders, Mr Ulu Aiono and Ms Margaret Brown, with the implentation of a small MYOB system in an entrepreneurial company.

Consultants ERP/Warehousing & Distribution: Melbourne - Australia
Job # 4-3.04.C
STATUS : CLOSED OCTOBER 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
We continue to seek new people for this role. But we also thank all the candidates who have so far contacted us about this role. Mr Lawrence Thoms is the latest successful candidate to fill one of these roles. Mr Thoms has joined us and works out of our Melbourne offices to support large manufacturers and companies using the MFG/PRO ERP software system. Mr Thom's has nearly 13 years of in depth experience leading projects to implement, modify, and support users of the MFG/PRO system. Mr Thoms reports to Mr Anthony Valana - COGITA's Director of Australian Operations.

Sales Support Coordinator; Sydney - Australia
Job # 6-02.03
STATUS : CLOSED OCTOBER 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Ms Elspeth Hobson is the successful candidate who filled this role and joins COGITA's Sydney office. Reporting to Mr Anthony Valana - COGITA's Director of Australian Operations - Ms Hobson joined COGITA's Sydney office and replaces Ms Julie Jackson.

Technical Services; Sydney - Australia
Job # 4-3.04.B
STATUS : CLOSED SEPTEMBER 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Nathan Testa is the successful candidate who filled this role and joins COGITA's Sydney office. Mr Testa joins a multi-state (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia) technical services operating from COGITA's offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Mr Testa reports to Mr Mark Schubert - COGITA's Technical Services Leader in Australia.

Software Developer - PROGRESS and MFG/PRO; Melbourne - Australia
Job # 4-3.04.A
STATUS : CLOSED SEPTEMBER 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Arul Krishnasamay is the successful candidate who filled this role and joins COGITA's Melbourne office. Mr Krishnasamay joined our full time software support & development team in Melbourne and will concentrate on providing support to large manufacturing companies using the MFG/PRO ERP software system. Mr Krishnasamay reports to Mr Anthony Valana - COGITA's Director of Australian Operations.

Sales Support Coordinator; Sydney - Australia
Job # 6-01.03
STATUS : CLOSED MAY 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Ms Julie Jackson is the successful candidate who filled this role and joins COGITA's Sydney office. Ms Jackson startst work on 9 May 2006 and report directly to Ms Margaret Brown - COGITA's Sales Director.

Sales Coordinator & Administration; Adelaide - Australia
Job # 6-01.02
STATUS : CLOSED MAY 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Ms Claudine Young is the successful candidate who filled this role and joins COGITA's Adelaide office. Ms Young will start work on 23 JULY 2006 and report directly to COGITA's Director of Operations - Australia, Mr Anthony Valana. Claudine will coordinate and administer the sales process - its proposals, information, documentation, marketing and sales materials - for Mr Valana's account management activities.

Sales Executive; Melbourne - Australia
Job # 5-01.06
STATUS : CLOSED MARCH 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Dean Cronkwright is the successful candidate who filled this role and joins COGITA's Melbourne sales team. Mr Cronkwright started work in February 2006 and reports to Ms Margaret Brown, COGITA's Director of Sales - ANZ. COGITA's Melbourne sales team also includes Mr Richard Parkin (in charge of lead generation) and a Pre-sales Consultant whose appointment will soon be confirmed. This largely completes our initial recruitment drive to replicate our sales teams for each primary ERP sales office in the COGITA group.

Desktop support consultant NZ
Job # 1-11.06
STATUS : CLOSED JANUARY 2006
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr Mohammed Roshan joins COGITA on 9 January 2006. Initially, Mr Roshan will be responsible for client support of desktop software, hardware, and operating systems.

Project Manager - ERP implementations NZ
Job # 2-3.04
STATUS : CLOSED DECEMBER 2005
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr Gavin Bainbridge joins COGITA in January 2006. Previously employed by the Fletcher Group in Auckland Mr Bainbridge has been recruited to provide protective capacity for COGITA NZ's project management services and additional support for COGITA's specialised ERP support and services for manufacturing & distribution companies.

Pre-sales executive - ERP sales in COGITA Sydney
Job # 7.10.105
STATUS : CLOSED DECEMBER 2005
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Mr Robin Gurr joins COGITA's Sydney office in January 2006. Previously employed by one of Sydney's Axapta resellers, Mr Gurr will be part of COGITA's sales force in New South Wales, Australia. Mr Gurr's initial focus will be to understudy the pre-sales role performed by Mr Terence Mearns who is retiring.

A : Intern - ERP Marketing Assistant; New Zealand
STATUS : CLOSED 20 MAY 2005
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED
Monsieur Raphael Vignes will join our Auckland offices on 27 June 2005. Monsieur Vignes is completing his French University business studies in Scotland in a few days. Then he will return home to France for a few weeks before travelling to Manukau City in New Zealand. We have approved a 12-months post graduate internship in our Manukau City offices. We expect Monsieur Vignes to find that there is more than enough marketing related work to occupy him fully as we seek to develop the niche market for the ERP software solution..

2005 APRIL 25 : Pre-sales Consultant; New Zealand
STATUS : CLOSED 22 APRIL 2005
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Keith Williams was the successful candidate who filled this role in our Auckland office. Mr Williams began work in our Auckland offices on 25 April 2005 in a new role as NZ Pre-Sales Consultant. Previously employed by specialist military-application technology company, Oscmar NZ, Mr Williams is an engineer with extensive experience in large, high priced projects, and systems. Mr Williams joins our successful NZ sales team based in our Manukau City offices in New Zealand. With the addition of Mr Williams to our NZ sales force we now operate a full, end-to-end, lead generation and sales pipeline team in New Zealand. This team has been replicated in our Sydney offices. We plan to complete a 2nd replication in our Melbourne offices before the end of June 2005. Once these replications are complete, we will own three sales forces, each a full replica of the other, operating with the same sales tools using a single database to multiply our ERP sales for Epicor's ERP solution. This infrastructure puts is in a prime position to lift our ERP sales from our current record of 1 per month, to 1 per fortnight, and eventually achieve our target of one new ERP sale per week through direct sales (excluding channel sales by our resellers).

C: Intern - Undergraduate Accounting & Finance; New Zealand
STATUS : SUCCESSFULLY CLOSED 4 APRIL 2005
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS BEEN RETAINED
Thank you to the candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Peter Meng was the successful candidate who filled this role in our Auckland office. Mr Meng is a 3rd year accounting & finance student at the University of Auckland. A high achiever with excellent grades, Mr Meng is an international student, born in the PRC China mainland, and has been offered an honours programme by Auckland University. Mr Meng will be assisting COGITA's Founder, Mr Ulu Aiono, until June 2005 when Mr Meng graduates.

2005 New Graduate Consultant
Job # 5-2.04
STATUS : CLOSED 10 JANUARY 2005
A NZ UNIVERSITY GRADUATE HAS BEEN HIRED
Thank you to all candidates who contacted us about this role. Mr Tobi Vaudrey was the successful candidate and starts with COGITA on 1 February 2005.

Tobi was the top student in his final year of the Engineering Science undergraduate honours degree program at the University of Auckland School of Engineering. With a first class honours degree, and a wild sense of humour, Tobi, on joining us, will be launched into a series of tough internal and external projects in our Auckland (New Zealand) office.