The Software Onullbjectives engineering and support team work out of offices located at Boronia, in Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs. Of course with many products and support contracts there is the need to work on site with the customer but having the team work together centrally helps foster quality through guided supervision and mutual technical support. Our staff participate in Microsoft education courses and with annual specialist technical courses.

About Us
	Geoff Schaller - Senior Partner
		geoff@softwareobjectives.com.au
	Geoff graduated as a computer engineer from UNSW in 1981. He worked as an Army Officer and Computer Engineer for the Dept of Defence for 10 years, managing several of their mainframe and distributed computing solutions. This provided a solid background in data management and communications. He left the Army in 1991 to pursue his own business interests and operated a food manufacturing business employing 20 people for several years. The dissatisfaction with software available for business management, inventory and financial management caused him to become involved in writing his own. Eventually, the software interests grew to take over the manufacturing interests and so in 1999, he joined with Bruce to form Software Objectives and concentrate solely on software. His personal business experiences offer the team substantial real world credentials. Geoff is President of the Melbourne VO User Group and organises the Australian annual Visual Objects training conference.
	Ed Richard - Application Developer
		ed@softwareobjectives.com.au
	After starting his professional career in the Royal Dutch Navy Ed studied IT in the eighties. After a few years as application developer as a civilian for the navy the commercial IT companies were too much of an attraction. Ed managed the technical aspects of a Clipper development team of 8 people until he started his own development and consultancy company in 1994. During these years both companies were leading training institute for Clipper and later Visual Objects in The Netherlands and ran the Dutch Clipper & VO Helpdesk for CA. Ed has been president of the VO-user group section of SDGN (now SDN) the biggest developer user group in The Netherlands and has been a board member for years now. Never shy of new environments Ed was always very interested in application integration with a strong affinity for Microsoft. For a couple of years now Ed’s been learning and moving to C# using Visual Studio as well as developing in Visual Objects. Recently he joined Software Objectives in Australia . Ed has been a speaker for many national and international conferences such as CA-World and CttM and regularly publishes articles for SDN.
	Ashantha Jayasinghe - Application Developer
		ashantha@softwareobjectives.com.au
	Having started on computing as a hobby on the Commodore 64 and Amiga home computers, Ash underwent formal training in the late 80’s which includes the British Computer Society Examinations. He began his IT career in 1991 and has worked in commercial software houses in Colombo and London . His development experience includes Motorola 6502 Assembler, WANG-VS Assembler and COBOL, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual Basic and Visual Objects. He has developed business applications for industries ranging from retail, insurance, trading and manufacturing to corporate hospitality management. Ash is now our main-stay for SQL Server applications and document management solutions.
	Linley Schaller - Office Manager
		linley@softwareobjectives.com.au
	Linley graduated as a nurse in 1982, then moved onto business management in 1989 after having 4 children. She managed Tommy Finn's, a smoked trout manufacturing business for 15 years before joining Software Objectives in July of 2004. She immediately put a more human face on the Q&A aspects of the business. Lin is our office manager and runs the helpdesk.
	Chris Schaller - Application Developer
		chris@softwareobjectives.com.au
	Chris  left school early to pursue a family life but started his IT career with Software Objectives in 2007. After 6 months of cutting his teeth on Dot Net he went to work for Starnet in Melbourne in order to broaden his skills base. After 18 months he had gone as far as he could in a company that has a large pool of developers and returned to Software Objectives to become our lead C# developer  and our creative force for website design.
		Past Staff