Our people
Consulting staff
Szymon Duniec
Managing Director, QPMR
Szymon has been the Managing Director of ORIMA Research since May 2000. Prior to this, he was a senior economic adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Previously, Szymon held a range of positions involving economic and social research, analysis and policy advising in the Australian Government Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Treasury; Industry, Science and Resources; and Health.
Szymon specialises in:
- program evaluations and reviews; and
- quantitative market and social research, including communications tracking and evaluation studies, client surveys, community surveys and employee surveys.
Liz Duniec
Director, QPMR
ORIMA Research was established by Liz in Canberra in 1997 with the aim of being a provider of innovative and high quality research consultancy services.
Prior to this, she was a Principal of Interaction Consulting Group for three years. Before that, Liz was a consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (formerly Coopers and Lybrand's Human Resources and Strategic Management Group) in Canberra for over four years.
Liz is an organisational psychologist, with extensive experience in market and social research methods. Liz specialises in:
- communications research, including:
- research to help identify policy awareness and understanding;
- developmental research to help inform communications strategy formulation;
- qualitative and quantitative research to support communication campaign development, refinement and evaluation;
- creative testing;
- branding and positioning research;
- information product testing; and
- usability and effectiveness testing of forms and websites.
- research to inform public policy development, including identifying individual and group behaviour and attitudes, motivators and barriers to action; and
- program evaluation for public sector clients.
Rodney Latimer
Director, QPMR
Rodney Latimer is a Director of ORIMA Research. He joined ORIMA in October 1997, after working in South East Asia as a Senior Research Executive with Market Behaviour Limited (MBL), which is part of the NFO (National Family Opinion) World Wide Network based in the USA.
Rodney has extensive experience in commercial marketing research and public sector research.
Rodney specialises in:
- commercial marketing research;
- government-to-business research;
- client/ stakeholder research;
- community surveys; and
- employee surveys.
Andrew Lenihan
Research Director, QPMR
Andrew joined ORIMA Research in August 1999 after spending several years as an economic adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and in the former Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training.
Andrew has strong skills in quantitative and statistical analysis and specialises in their application to client and employee research and program evaluations for the public sector. He also has considerable qualitative research experience.
Chris Sadler
Research Director, QPMR
Chris is Research Director (IT Applications) at ORIMA Research. Chris joined ORIMA Research in 1999 after several years as an economic analyst and adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and in the former Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training. He has extensive experience in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research projects for both public and private sector clients.
He specialises in establishing and managing electronic data collection and management systems, data mining and analysis of large-scale data sets.
Craig Young
Research Director, QPMR
Craig recently joined ORIMA to head our Strategic Research Division.
Over the past 15 years Craig has held senior research roles within the market research industry, including at NWC Opinion Research (where he managed the company's public sector research practice and was a part owner), Roy Morgan Research (where he was General Manager of the company's Customised Research Department) and ACNielsen (where he worked in the International Research Division).
He has worked as a researcher in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Hong Kong, and as a research buyer and analyst for the Federal Government (Centrelink). Craig's public sector experience includes work for most major Commonwealth and many State Government Departments and he is equally adept at both qualitative and quantitative methods. He has particular expertise in the design, transition and management of large scale and complex studies, including some of the largest research studies conducted in Australia. Craig has specific interest in the following areas:
- Complex research design
- Multicultural and indigenous research
- Health and welfare research
- Large scale survey deployment
- Turning business problems and complex data into clear business recommendations
Natalie Arkle
Senior Research Consultant, QPMR
Natalie Arkle joined ORIMA Research in January 2009, after working in evaluation roles in several Australian Government agencies including the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Department of Defence and the Australian Public Service Commission.
Natalie has experience in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research. She specialises in:
- communications research;
- client and stakeholder research;
- program evaluations and reviews;
- employee surveys; and
- staff entry and exit surveys.
Rebecca Fisher
Senior Research Consultant, QPMR
Rebecca joined ORIMA Research in July 2002. She has several years of experience in managing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research projects for both public sector and private sector clients. Rebecca is an experienced focus group moderator. She specialises in:
- communications research;
- program evaluations and reviews;
- client/ stakeholder research;
- community surveys; and
- employee surveys.
Jacqui Lang
Senior Research Consultant, QPMR
Jacqui Lang joined ORIMA Research in October 2000, after working for the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services in policy development, program administration, and communication and change management roles.
Jacqui specialises in qualitative research, with a focus on communications and marketing research, including:
- branding and positioning research;
- commercial marketing research;
- website evaluation;
- research to support communication campaign development, refinement and evaluation;
- creative testing;
- information product testing; and
- usability and effectiveness testing of forms.
Kim Sullivan
Senior Research Consultant, QPMR
Kim Sullivan joined ORIMA Research in September 2003.
She is an experienced researcher who specialises in quantitative research projects, including:
- program evaluations and reviews;
- client/stakeholder research;
- community surveys; and
- employee surveys.
Tyler Forrester
Senior Research Consultant, QPMR
Tyler joined ORIMA Research in January 2003. He has extensive experience across a broad range of quantitative research projects. He specialises in:
- program evaluations and reviews;
- client/stakeholder research;
- community surveys; and
- employee surveys.
Nathan Franklin
Senior Research Analyst, QPMR
Nathan joined ORIMA Research in January 2008. Prior to joining ORIMA, Nathan worked as a performance analyst for the Australian National Audit Office. He specialises in:
- managing electronic data collection and management systems;
- data processing and analysis; and
- the design and application of IT solutions to research problems.
Rebecca Accadia
Research Analyst
Rebecca joined ORIMA Research in January 2009 as an Australian Market and Social Research Society Graduate Trainee. Rebecca has a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology and is currently completing a Masters Degree in Organisational and Industrial Psychology.
Chris Andrade
Research Analyst
Chris joined ORIMA Research in May 2004. He has extensive experience in telephone interviewing, fieldwork management and data processing.
Darryl Dias
Research Analyst
Darryl joined ORIMA Research in October 2009. He has worked as a data processing analyst for several market research companies and has solid experience in data processing and analysis, as well as the use of SurveyCraft and other market research software.
Henry Fitzgerald
Research Analyst
Henry joined ORIMA Research in May 2003 in ORIMA's Operations Division. In August 2007, he was promoted to a Research Assistant position in our Canberra consulting team and in January 2008 he was promoted to a Research Analyst position. Henry has experience in:
- the design and implementation of telephone survey fieldwork;
- conducting executive-style and complex in-depth interviews; and
- analysis and reporting.
David Ryan
Research Analyst
David joined ORIMA Research in November 2008. Prior to joining ORIMA, David worked as a performance analyst for the Australian National Audit Office. He specialises in:
- the collection, analysis and presentation of both quantitative and qualitative data for both the government and private sectors;
- questionnaire development; and
- day-to-day management of projects.
Danica Ralston
Research Consultant, QPMR
Danica joined ORIMA Research in May 2003. She has accumulated extensive experience across a range of qualitative and quantitative research projects. Danica is an experienced focus group moderator. She specialises in:
- communications research;
- program evaluations and reviews;
- client/ stakeholder research;
- community surveys; and
- employee surveys.
Janice Wong
Research Analyst
Janice joined ORIMA as a Research Assistant in March 2008. She has experience in:
- client/stakeholder research;
- community surveys; and
- employee surveys.
Sze Ai Lee
Research Assistant
Sze joined ORIMA Research in August 2009. Sze provides support and assistance to senior researchers throughout the research process and specialises in the analysis, interpretation and reporting of research results.
Hannah Capes
Research Assistant
Hannah joined ORIMA Research in January 2010. Hannah provides support and assistance to senior researchers throughout the research process and specialises in the analysis, interpretation and reporting of research results.
Vincci Law
Research Assistant
Vincci joined ORIMA Research in August 2009. Vincci provides support and assistance to senior researchers throughout the research process and specialises in the analysis, interpretation and reporting of research results.
Alissa Ranieri
Research Assistant
Alissa joined ORIMA Research in August 2009. Alissa provides support and assistance to senior researchers throughout the qualitative research process.
Tamara Sewell
Research Assistant
Tamara joined ORIMA Research in June 2006. Tamara provides support and assistance to senior researchers throughout the research process and specialises in the analysis, interpretation and reporting of research results.
Tamara has experience in client/stakeholder research, community surveys and employee surveys. She also has extensive experience as a telephone interviewer, including conducting complex in-depth interviews and executive-style telephone interviews.
Administrative staff
David Lang
Chief Information Officer, MACS, MAIPM
David joined ORIMA Research as Chief Information Officer in February 2010. He is responsible for the implementation of a number of IT capability building projects and the day to day management of ORIMA's IT environment.
Prior to joining ORIMA, David worked in senior project and program management roles within CrimTrac and Centrelink.
Arlene Hendricks
Executive Assistant
Arlene joined ORIMA Research in January 2008. She is the assistant to ORIMA’s two Melbourne-based Directors and is responsible for general administration and the day-to-day running of ORIMA’s Melbourne office.
Sul Soeleiman
Accountant/Senior Bookkeeper
Sul joined ORIMA in August 2008. She is responsible for the financial administrative functions at ORIMA Research, including accounts payable, receivable, payroll and financial performance reporting.
