Barry Anderson (Latsa)

expert estimation 30 years
We spoke to BARRY ANDERSON, SENIOR CONSULTANT AT LATSA “I first started using Expert Estimation in 2006. I was the Estimation Manager at a major Systems Integrator at the time and needed a program that could handle flexible ways of estimating to replace a restrictive Excel based system. After spending a significant amount of time […]

Joel Norman (Georgiou)

expert estimation 30 years
We spoke to JOEL NORMan, CHIEF ESTIMATOR AT GEORGIOU… “I started using Expert Estimation in 2002 when I commenced work with Macmahons. I believe they were using an alternate estimating package that was DOS-based and they had just introduced Expert Estimation when I started which was a Windows-based package. Previous to this I had only […]

Paul Goostrey (Ertech)

expert estimation 30 years
We spoke to Paul Goostrey, GENERAL MANAGER AT ERTECH… “I started using Expert Estimation properly in 2001 – I’d just moved to Ertech and needed to setup an estimating system quickly. I think my first tender closed around 10 days after starting to use the software – hence how easy it was to set up […]

Glenn Fordham (TRN Group)

expert estimation 30 years
We spoke to GLENN FORDHAM, GENERAL MANAGER AT TRN GROUP… “We first bought Expert Estimation in January 2001, looked at it for a few months before “taking the plunge” and did our first tender with it. It was worlds apart from handwritten notes/workings and MS Excel that we were using at the time. I remember […]

Phil Bird

expert estimation 30 years
We spoke to Phil Bird, one of the original users of Expert Estimation… Back in the late eighties, Phil started out as an estimator after being a Project Manager. Sitting next to Glen Townsley, he helped to beta test the software, finding typos as well as incorrect formulas, making it better with each iteration. As […]

Malcolm Bell

expert estimation 30 years
Mal Bell witnessed the very birth of Expert Estimation… In late 1980s, Mal worked with Glen Townsley and did his best to break the new software in his spare time. Even after Glen moved on, Mal used the software to cross-check estimates done on other programs, providing feedback to Glen in order to fix bugs […]