Staff Augmentation - Global Contingent

Workforce, Backfill and Rare Skills

Rock Star Consulting Group Capability, Clients and Case

Studies (the 3Cs) + Rate Card

by Bob Panic,
Director & Principal Consultant
Rock Star Consulting Group
www.rockstarconsultinggroup.com
+61 424 102 603
bob@rockstarconsultinggroup.com
Skype: bob.panic

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Introduction to Rock Star

Since 1998 598 direct staff, 1348 active global fraternity members, 5,174 industry connections,
private global database of over 10,000 influential contacts and skills

HQ in Melbourne, Australia global service: USA, UK, NZ, France, Albania, Russia, Japan,
Hong Kong, Singapore, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia

Service Scope: staff augmentation, Web development, UX/UI design, bespoke professional
business and technology consultancy services to government, corporate, emerging markets &
entrepreneurs

Sector Experience: Banking, Finance, Insurance, Health Care, Hospitals and Pharmaceutical,
Utilities, Airline Systems, Telecommunication, Mining and Heavy Industries, Government &
International Affairs.

Speciality: supply chain management, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, product

engineering, application development and architectural design, communications

Core Technology Speciality: SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, Salesforce, SharePoint, Cloud Security
& Design, Web development and design, warehouse systems, distribution systems, communication
systems, logistics and manufacturing software and systems
the simple truth of what we strive for:
Relationships. Understanding. Trust. Delivery
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Rock Star Corporate Clients

Rock Star Corporate Clients Cont.

Australian Pharmaceutical
Industries

Australian Submarine Corporation

Rock Star BFSI Australian Clients

Why Us?

Indemnity Insurance: Each and every Rock Star consultant comes with $20,000,000 professional
indemnity insurance, provided by CXC Global Group (http://cxcglobal.com)

Over 30 Years of human capital augmentation industry experience!

Corporate Governance & Reporting: our clients demand transparency and everything we do is
reported, tracked and communicated to our client leadership team on a regular and agreed basis. All
agreements are in writing and contracts for service.

Fiscal responsibility: budget control - average projects we manage for our clients range from $100k
(small Web development project) to $100 million (corporate banking platform upgrade), we provide
auditable reports and detailed status reports - all funds are held in escrow and distributed as per
established agreements

Client brief focused: we work for you, not for ourselves. We protect your brand, reputation and
vision. We are delivery focused and grow business relationships with proven delivery methodologies

Regional expertise: we have over 6000 multi industry connections (Rock Star Fraternity) with over 80
Web development(UI/UX) SMEs (in-house) we know the people, we understand the compliance and
regulatory landscape, we have the right connections to the right people.

Experience & Qualifications: our multisector team will bring over 30 years of targeted Web
development(UI/UX)experience, focused on core banking platform development and design, internet
banking application development & design and targeted consultancy services experience.

Rock Star Consulting Group and Web development(UI/UX)

- Our Commitment to quality

Each Rock Star Consulting Group developer has a minimum 8 to 10 years of proven industry experience not
just certification. they are not senior developers, they are master developers!

Rock Star Consulting Group support our developers and development teams from individual coders to large
multi stream delivery teams We mentor, we support, we develop and continually train, we drive results that
make us one of the industry leaders in successful application and systems development and delivery

Rock Star Consulting Group developers and programmers are results oriented, driven and focused to deliver
worlds best practice in coding and application development

multi skilled multi layers of proven, hands on, industry experience not just certifications!

Strong focus on certifications, training and hands on, industry focused Web development(UI/UX) experience

One resource, many skills this model ensures personal ownership of development and code quality,
leadership in timely delivery and design architecture. Rock Star Consulting Group coders return a higher ROI

Our targeted BFSI Web development(UI/UX) Rock Star model marries dynamic development teams, led by
world class project manager/s, supported by business Subject Matter Experts, utilizing our team of master
developers have proven to deliver 40% more project and client deliverables than any large offshore or
blended development teams

we are focused on delivering highly moral & ethical professional services for the BFSI sector, our work is audited by
independent external auditor (CPA), we have a dedicated ethics and governance team ensuring all work is performed to
meet Anti Money Laundering (AML) and BASEL II & III standards Bob Panic

Rock Star Consulting Group Australian Augmented Staff Snapshot

Case Study 1 Ubank Internet Banking Platform Development

Introduction about the Client: newly established $5 Billion (AUD) banking subsidiary focused on 100%
online banking services
Client Business challenge: delivery of a 100% online banking platform
Client Requirement: development and design (UI/UX) for secure and stable stage 2 POC (proof of
Concept) Web banking platform redesign and integration into Oracle core banking system. Stage 1 had filed
to meet business requirements due to a lack of engagement by the initially appointed vendor, 120 Rock Star
Consulting Group fraternity members were subcontracted by Oracle to help refocus and re-design the WEB
UI/UX component
How rock star consulting approached the client requirement? we spent the first 6 weeks of our
engagement in not just defining project requirements but the gathering of core banking SMEs, individuals
who knew how the parent bank (NAB) operated and had significant business expertise, these core
stakeholders were utilised in our initial 12 week lock down a closed Agile development design workshop
where Rock Star Consulting Groups senior Web (UI/U) developer, Enterprise solutions architect and delivery
portfolio lead (Bob Panic) directed the assembly to design the functionality, the business rules and wireframe
design (look and feel) simultaneously as the requirements were gathered during the workshop phase
Benefits earned by client: As Rock Star Consulting Group involved both business decision makers and
developers the initial design of the Ubank POC internet banking portal redesign (Stage 2) was considerably
more successful than Stage 1. Rock Star Consulting Group delivered an agreed and stable WEB UI/UX
platform template with a consistent look and feel, world class stability and duel layer authentication that
could integrate into the core banking platform (Oracle Flexcube)

Rock Star Consulting Group Australian Snapshot

Case Study 2 NPBS Internet Banking Platform Development & Design

Introduction about the Client: Newcastle Permanent Building Society (NPBS) is a leading regional and
community bank based in NSW with a long and proud traditional banking history focused on personal service
and relationships
Client Business challenge: delivery of a 100% online banking platform
Client Requirement: Online banking was new venture for NPBS they wanted a simple, secure and cost
effective design. Satyam Australia had a long standing relationship with NPBS but no internet banking
expertise and they engaged Rock Star Consulting Group to develop, design and deliver the WEB UI/UX
component in under 12 months and a fixed budget.
How rock star consulting approached the client requirement? The core aim was to develop and
deliver a basic, duel layer authentication secure, easy to use, internet banking platform with integration into
existing core banking system (Hogan). We spent the first part of the research phase working with the
business to understand the culture of NPBS customers. Our extensive research indicated a concern about
internet banking complexity and a desire to do basic account management and payment of bills but in a
simple and easy to use fashion. Our solution also had to be lean in look and feel with minimal graphical
overhead as most customers were in remote reginal areas with very slow internet. With the use of
interactive wireframing and leveraging our Customer Super Users Working Group we were able to focus on
the content and the overall goal of powerful simplicity. The wireframes functioned as a sounding board for
the project allowing us to discuss concepts and quickly make revisions when needed.
Benefits earned by client: As Rock Star Consulting Group delivered (leading a mixed skill team of 90) the
internet banking platform working beta within 10 months, 2 months ahead of schedule, with project
savings in excess of $530k. We successfully involved both business and core customers in the WEB UI/UX
platform design to deliver a design built by the customer for the customer, we added duel layer
authentication that integrated into the core banking platform (Hogan).

Rock Star Consulting Group Australian Sector Snapshot

Case Study 3 AXA/AMP Insurance Platform Development & Design

Introduction about the Client: AXA/AMP merger was instrumental in building a stronger AMP brand, Rock
Star Consulting Group was engaged to deliver a highly complex integration of two insurance platforms into
one Web enabled system
Client Business challenge: delivery of a 100% online, integrated Insurance Platform for AXA/AMP
Employees and Insurance brokers (insurance products/services)
Client Requirement: Rock Star Consulting Group was engaged to develop, design, plan and manage the
highly complex WEB UI/UX interface for the new integrated, web based insurance portal for staff and
brokers.
How rock star consulting approached the client requirement? Early on, we knew it was going to be
extremely important to understand the complexities of both systems and map the future state needs for
AMP. We spent the first few weeks of the project with key business stakeholders from both AMP and AXA, to
get the best of both worlds products and services defined and agreed. We began the Future state research
and discovery phase of our process leveraging the complexity of big data available including broker
profiles and product catalogues, site analytics, and previous user and A/B tests. We began by auditing and
documenting all of the current site content and started to identify and eliminate irrelevant services, products
and offerings (product simplification). At the same time, we started our industry best practice interactive
wire framing, keeping the wireframes simple we were able to focus on the content, services and products
and the overall goal of delivering coding simulations and validation of created content
Benefits earned by client: Rock Star Consulting Group delivered the integrated broker insurance platform
for AMP, including all insurance products and services, with decoupling of AXA systems and migration to AMP
technologies over an agressive18 month development/delivery campaign. With our strict Zero defects
quality gates and 5x5 development team structure, we saved AMP over $1.2 Million in lost time and rework
over the various phases of the project. Rock Star Consulting Group took ownership of all technical cutover
and deployment activities which were centrally controlled by Bob Panic. This ownership, strict focus on
quality and central control ensured that all deployments were co-ordinated and delivered on time with no
production defects.
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Rock Star Augmented Skills Snapshot

Hogan

Oracle Flexcube

SAP Financials

Hibernate/JDBC

SOAP Webservice
client/server

Servlet

.NET

HTML 5

Spring framework web

development

Host Adopter

IIB

CSS

Javascript

Ajax

JQuery

Json

Ember.js

Linux shell script

Python

Salesforce.com/APEX

SAP HANA

PHP

iOS

Visual Studio

Sharepoint

CHRIS21

JBO.net

Office 365

UI Design

InfoPath

PowerShell

Visual Studio

Team Foundation Server

SQL

Assembly

Visual Basic

Basis

DotNetNuke

Hadoop

Splunk

Azure

and many more

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Why We have the Lowest Attrition rates in the industry

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Directors Snapshot

Bob Panic Portfolio Director, Delivery Lead business consultant, entrepreneur, specialist business systems consultant
(Augmented Resource Planning, Logistics and Supply Chain), marketing director, project delivery manager. Bob brings over 25
years of professional business consultancy and manage large, complex projects, leasing with senior leadership (directors,
CEO/s, Investors) and leading teams. Working with strict governance and business processes to ensure that clients budgets are
protected and funds allocated accordingly with a zero tolerance policy on waste and full prudential controls of operating
budgets. At Satyam from 2002 to 2008 he was responsible for successfully leading the $100 Million (AUD) Core Banking
Platform upgrade project for National Australia Bank. In 2013, he was the principal project scheduler and risk manager for the
$1.5 Billion (AUD) Gold Cost University Hospital (Queensland Government)
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-panic/6/185/62a

Willem Pienaar Director of Development Lead developer, dynamic and innovative, focused on the right development tools
for the right business outcome. Extraordinary experience across many domains and sectors in South Africa and Australia.
LinkedIn Profile: https://au.linkedin.com/pub/willem-pienaar/8/876/662

Hari Mundru Director, Quality Assurance & Delivery Hari brings over 18+ years of experience in IT industry performing
various roles. Experience in software testing and quality assurance in various domains like Telecomm, Utilities, Banking,
Education and government. Experience in Test consulting, Automation Testing, Test Planning and scheduling, Test delivery,
Vendor Management, Hardware/Software Testing, SIT Testing, Test Governance, Test Reporting, Test Management, BAU Test
Framework, End to End Testing, UAT.
Linkedin Profile: https://au.linkedin.com/pub/hari-mundru/38/b16/181

Silvi Bozo Chief of Staff, Ethics, Governance & Audit NAATI Certified translator from English to Albanian, multi- lingual
fluent in English, Albanian, Italian, with professional studies in Russian, Japanese. Silvi has a BA of Business for RMIT (Australia)
and has been a Rock Star business partner since 2002.
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/silvi-bozo/55/3b/698

Jonia Tamburi Director of Communications B.A. in Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures with a concentration in
Spanish and German in 2004 and M.A. in Communication Studies in 2011.
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jonia-tamburi/7/413/933

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Professional services policy - Rate card - Directors and Senior Management

As part of our general operating policy for openness and transparency, the following are our terms and conditions
(overview) and rate card for the provision of professional services in Australia.
The rate card comes with a guarantee of service and quality.
Invoices for professional services will be paid directly to Rock Star Consulting Group Escrow Account, in agreed
currency (AUD) as per agreed terms and conditions of both parties.
A working week can be agreed as either 5 or 6 days. A working day is 12 to 14 hours on average.
Note: All Rock Star consultants come with a $20,000,000 ($20 Million each) professional indemnity insurance
provided by our payroll partner, CXC Global. All consultants come with 100% replacement guarantee.
General terms:
If applicable: Travel and accommodation is to be provided and paid for by the client for the duration of all
international assignments. Travel insurance is included in the daily professional services rate of all our professional
consultants.
A one-off 10% (of total budget) as advanced payment for professional services to be paid for by the client before any
local or international assignment commences.
15 day invoice terms. One invoice for all professional services
Operating capital and all incurred business expenses are the responsibility of the client
All operating capital is held in escrow by Rock Star Consulting Group before allocation to internal consulting staff
(wages) and for any payment of local and government fees and charges
Daily rate is inclusive of all taxes, insurances, superannuation, and food. It is a fixed, landed rate.
For further details contact: Bob Panic
+61 424 102 603
bob@rockstarconsultinggroup.com

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Professional Application Development Services Web, UI/UX

General Rate Card AUD (per day, landed rate)
Rate Card (Australia only):
Daily Rate

Professional

$ On Request

Rock Star Consulting Group Legal Council International

law, Intellectual Property Law, Trademark Protection, Contracts.

$On Request

Bob Panic, Hari Mundru Director, portfolio & project lead,

Quality Assurance central contacts

$1000 per/day

Silvi Bozo Chief of Staff Augmented recruitment, human

capital management

$1000 per/day

Jonia Tamburi - Communications Director, Negotiator,

professional support services (translation, guide) - (remote
services)
Professional any skill, anytimeresumes on request,
rates based on skills required, agreed rates valid for 12
months.

Daily Rate

$600 - $800 per/day

3 to 5 years experience, 100% guaranteed, security vetted, fully

qualified, 5 Star Rated. Fully supported, independent

$900 - $1050 per/day

5 Years + experience, senior resource, security vetted, 100%

guaranteed, 6 star rated, leadership and independence

$1100 - $1300 per/day

10 years+, 7 star rated (our highest honor), 100% Guaranteed,

security vetted, leader in their field, highest authority, specialist

$1500 - $1800 per/day

Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Development Leads,

Master Schedulers, Portfolio directors, program mangers.

$2000+ per/day

Industry specialists and rare skills. CxOs and senior directors,

board members, socialites and artists

$ On Request

Legal Council, photographer, actors, artists, designers, A list

personalities, promotion design and advertising, taxation
specialists and CFO (CPA certified)

For further details contact: Bob Panic

+61 424 102 603
bob@rockstarconsultinggroup.com

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