Steve Coyne MIES
President

Reporting:
Liaison, Advocacy

  steve.coyne@iesanz.info

Steve has been a lecturing in physics at the Queensland University of Technology since 1989. He has been involved in all areas of teaching, post-graduate project and research supervision. His particular fields of expertise are optics, photometry and colour, lighting and integration of daylighting. He lectures to the Physics, Optometry, Engineering and Built Environment (i.e. Architects, Interior Designers, Landscape Architects) undergraduate students as well as supervising postgraduate students researching in UV, lighting and daylighting.

Recently Steve has been involved in the development and delivery of Post Graduate lighting courses at QUT as well as City University in Hong Kong .

Steve is a NATA signatory and deputy director of the photometric laboratory at QUT. This independent facility caries out photometric testing and calibration services for the lighting industry. Other consulting activities of Steve include optical lens and reflector design, expert witness and special projects for government agencies.

The main research interest of Steve is in the field of integration of daylight with electric lighting from both an energy saving and human factor perspective. Another area of his research is post occupancy assessment of building services performance. This project is known as the Mobile Architecture Built Environment Laboratory (MABEL). He has presented over 50 papers on lighting, daylighting and the lighting profession. He has been working for the past 4 years as the Deputy Cooperating Agent for the International Energy Agency project; Task 31 Daylighting Buildings for the 21 st Century.

In management, Steve has fulfilled various roles within the ies in Qld for over 10 years including the last three years as Qld Chapter Chair. As well as being a Director of IESANZ, he is currently a Director of the Australian Council of Building Design Professions and on the Board of Management of MABEL, an unincorporated joint venture project between five universities. Steve has also contributed to his favoured sport of Basketball by standing as President of Brisbane Basketball Inc (5 years), Director of Brisbane Basketball Holdings (3 years) and Councillor of Queensland Basketball (2 years).

Other professional memberships include the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and the Optical Society of Australia and CIE Australia.

For the last three and a half years Steve has been pursuing a vision of establishing a Lighting Centre of international standing in Australia which will help advance the R&D, Education and Information of lighting for the prosperity of the Australian lighting industry while benefiting the general community.

Roy Speed FIES
Immediate Past President

Roy Speed has been a member of the IESANZ since 1990. In 1992 he became a member of the NZ National Council and has been continuously involved at the national level through to the present time.

Roy was a NZ representative to Central Council from 2000 to 2002, Deputy Chairman of the NZ-Chapter Management Committee (CMC) from 2001 to 2003 and Chairman of the NZ-CMC from 2003 to 2005.

A major interest has been lighting education and Roy was the NZ representative on the committee that established the IESANZ syllabus in 1992. He has been Convener of the NZ Education Committee since 1995 and Convener of the Central Education Committee since 2000.

Roy first started lecturing in lighting in 1986, as part of electrical building services courses at the then, Auckland Institute of Technology. In 1993 he was responsible for establishing the lighting education programme to the new IESANZ syllabus. He has continued as the Programme Leader, for what are now the Auckland University of Technology lighting courses. Over that time, approximately 100 students have completed the two year programme and met the requirements for the Tech IES qualification. As well as being accredited by the IESANZ, the course has also been audited by the Society of Light and Lighting and the graduates deemed to have met the academic requirements for membership of that Society.

Roy’s research has been based around the lighting of large open plan offices, with particular regard to the influence of daylight. He has published a number of papers from this work and recently graduated with a MPhil (Architecture) from the University of Sydney.

Prior to becoming a lecturer Roy held a number of senior positions as an electrical engineer, involved in electrical building services and lighting design. Lighting design projects were in both the commercial and industrial areas and included a large hotel complex, department stores, a shopping mall, a number of offices, retail outlets, and numerous industrial projects in the engineering, plastics, pulp and paper, chemical, steel, printing, packaging and clothing areas.

David Lewis MIES
Vice President

Reporting:
Standards

David is a lighting consultant who has had more than 30 years lighting design experience in five continents.

Coming from a mixed background of show business (theatre and music) and electrical design for industry in southern Africa, he started his lighting consulting career in London - first in largearchitectural projects (e.g. Heathrow Airport Terminal 3, Barbican Arts Centre) and later in the film and television spheres.

He worked as a senior designer for Lee Lighting (of Lee International, UK), television and film lighting specialists, designing television/film studio lighting fixtures.
He joined Philips Lighting in London as senior designer with a focus on sports, roads, retail and architectural projects; and completing several training courses in The Netherlands.

David and his family migrated to Australia in 1984 where he became the senior lighting designer, later chief lighting engineer for Philips Australia.

His design portfolio covered many Australian sports facilities as well as architectural, commercial and industrial projects.
David first became a member of the IES in 1985 and is a Past President of the NSW Chapter. At various times he has been a member of IESNA, IALD, ILE and CIBSE; and served on various Standards Australia committees.

David formed his own independent lighting consultancy, David Lewis Lighting Design (DLLD), in November 1996.

His lighting design portfolio of projects of all sizes and complexity principally covers international sport and television; but also architectural, retail, hospitality and entertainment.

For the last decade David has been the lighting consultant to the host broadcaster (http://www.obs.es/) of the Olympic Games – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010.

David is the lighting consultant to the Australian Football League (AF) and on particular architectural projects David partners with leading Australian consultancy Point-Of-View http://www.pov.com.au/

Barry Gull  MIES

Reporting:
Treasurer

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Barry has been a member of the Society since 1993. Originally trained as a building services engineer in the UK and worked in that field from 1977 until leaving the UK in 1988. Until this time lighting, as a dedicated discipline, occupied only a small part of his working life. Barry only became more involved in lighting after coming to Brisbane in 1989. At this time he was looking for a way to occupy himself while his wife undertook further study in the evening and decided to do the Lighting Course then run through the South Bank Institute of TAFE, completing this course in 1990. He decided then that lighting was an area he wished to become more involved with and has been in the industry ever since.

Barry worked originally for building services consultancy firms and then for a number of lighting companies in a variety of roles. However, he most enjoys the process of lighting design more than any other aspect, and in 2006 he decided to become a self employed  lighting consultant in Brisbane.

When the post graduate courses in lighting were offered by QUT, Barry, like many of his peers, undertook the course to Graduate Diploma level to expand his knowledge of the subject and attain a higher qualification. He attained his Grad Dip in 2006. He is currently studying for his Masters in lighting.

Barry’s interest areas within lighting are varied, but has a particular interest in the greater use of daylight within buildings. He is also a member of the Sports Lighting Standards committee LG9. 

Bryan Douglas
Company Secretary

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In addition to being Company Secretary of the Society, Bryan Douglas is also Chief Executive Officer of Lighting Council Australia.

ies: The Lighting Society and Lighting Council Australia enjoy a close relationship, including a shared secretariat.  A Memorandum of Understanding commits the two organisations to co-operation in a number of areas.  A high level joint Lighting Industry Strategic Directions Committee helps to set policy directions for the lighting industry.

Bryan has an honours degree in History from ANU and Chinese language qualifications from Beijing Languages Institute and Nanjing University.

Tracy Bronlund TechIES
Board Member

  tracy.bronlund@iesanz.info

Tracy has been a member of the IES since 1998.  In 1998 she joined the Auckland Branch Committee and later served as secretary.  In 2003 she joined the NZ CMC as Secretary and is currently serving her third year as NZ Chapter President.

Tracy has been in the Lighting and Electrical industries for 17 years in positions including Lighting Design, Contracts, Technical Support and Sales, specialising in Industrial, Commercial and Educational applications.

Tracy now works as an Independent Lighting Designer providing  impartial lighting designs to end users, as well as back up design services for lighting manufacturers and distributors both locally and off shore.

John Ford MIES
Board Member

Reporting:
Education

  john.ford@iesanz.info

John spent many years working in production management and lighting design for theatre, music and dance performance before moving into architectural lighting design. John has been on the Victorian chapter management committee for a number of years with involvement in judging and convening of the Victorian Lighting Design Awards programme.

He currently holds the position of Senior Lighting Designer at Bluebottle 3 in Melbourne. Prior to taking this position he was with Electrolight in Melbourne. John has designed lighting for a number of numerous projects including the National Museum and National Library in Canberra, performing arts venues including the Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Recital Centre and the Perth New Performing Arts Venue. Other project experience includes retail, commercial, exterior and roadway lighting. He has a Bachelor of Arts and lighting qualifications from the IES lighting course at RMIT.

Graeme Foweraker LFIES
Board Member

Reporting:
Corporate Brand
Status & Qualifications

  Graeme.Foweraker@iesanz.info

Graeme's background has been in the engineering design field of both State and Federal Government Departments since 1956.  Graeme holds an Associate Diploma in Electrical Engineering. More recently he has been involved in a Facility Management role as the Regionl Manager for Telstra's Network facilities in SA and NT and Facility Mnagement in Private enterprise.

Graeme retired from the workforce in 2002

Graeme has been a member of the IES since 1975 and has been a Council member of the SA region from 1975 to 2000.  During this period he was also a SA representative on the National Body for many years as well as being the National Treasurer and a current member of the S&Q committee.

Vessi Ivanova MIES
Board Member

Reporting:

Publications & Marketing

   Vessi.Ivanova@iesanz.info

Vessi Ivanova  BE(Hons) Elec, Grad Cert Design Sc(illum), MIES has over 21 years experience in the Building Services industry.  Vessi is currently working with Northrop Consulting Engineers, and brings her industry experience to her role as Manager Specialist Lighting Services of the new Lighting Design Studio.

Vessi has worked on numerous projects that have received awards for excellence in lighting design.

Throughout her career, Vessi has successfully provided innovative, creative and efficient lighting solutions across various industry sectors, including commercial, retails,clubs, landmark attractions and public domain.

Vessi has held the Presidency of the IES NSW Chapter since 2009 and has been successful in improving on deliverables provided to the members of the Lighting Society.  These improvements are a direct reflection of the time and dedication that Vessi has given to IES.

David Rooke  TechIES

Reporting:
Awards

  david.rooke@iesanz.info

David has been in the Lighting Industry for over 20 years working in many different areas, mainly involving the commercial project lighting sector. Taking on roles as diverse as project management, sales and marketing, he has worked in areas like manufacturing (luminaires & control gear), wholesaling, service providers (contracting, energy retailing & auditing) and is currently employed as Southern Area Manager, Representative Office Oceania Melbourne Australia

Having spent most of his life in Melbourne, David successfully completed A Bachelor of Arts degree at La Trobe University. After joining the industry he signed up to the RMIT Lighting Design Course and following completion consequently became a member of the IES. Since then he furthered his involvement in the industry, having done many years for the IES Victorian Chapter, taking on roles as President, Chairperson, Convention Convener as well as being on committees for Marketing, Meetings and Membership.

The highlight of David’s involvement with the IES is, according to him, working with a competent group of like minded people, convening and organizing the 2003 IESANZ Convention in Melbourne. He has also presented papers at other IESANZ conventions, been published in the Lighting magazine and lectured for a few years at RMIT