Senior Executive Profiles

Professor Flitman was appointed to the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) in July 2007. In this capacity, Professor Flitman is responsible for guiding and managing research at Swinburne. He was appointed after several years in industry and an academic career that included positions at Warwick University in the United Kingdom and Monash University. Prior to joining Swinburne he was Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology at Deakin University.

Professor Flitman is an internationally recognised expert in financial (corporate and market) and strategic computer modelling. He has significant commercial consulting experience in computer based finance, business planning, business analysis, decision support and modelling. This consulting experience has been obtained chiefly through senior positions held at Deloitte Haskins and Sells (London), Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte (UK) and Price Waterhouse (Melbourne). Much of the consulting undertaken by Professor Flitman has been for major blue-chip organisations both in Australia and overseas.

Since obtaining his PhD in Operations Research from Warwick University in 1987, Professor Flitman has published over 100 research publications and has authored a number of commercial reports. Professor Flitman is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Operations Research Society, UK, he also holds a number of senior professional memberships including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. Professor Flitman sits on a number of external committees and Boards.