Within months of starting at his first posting, the Squadron Warrant Officer recognised Brad’s keen interest in IT and moved him into a section specialising in Deployable Information Systems; a team of Airmen tasked with setting up networks and telephony literally anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice and provide helpdesk duties while on operation.  Continued specialist training along with a focus on Cisco (routing & switching configuration) and Windows administration was provided over the years ensuring a solid grounding in the Networking Engineering space, this knowledge was put to task on several Operations, both in Australia and overseas.

On leaving the Air Force Brad began employment as an engineer with a well known, reputable Managed Services Provider in Western Sydney. In contrast to the military, this new opportunity exposed him to many different technologies and products used in Small-Medium Enterprises. While there he took on several migration projects for his customers between versions of Windows Server and also from Exchange and Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, along with general duties in the helpdesk while in the office.

Looking for a change of pace and a network to call his own network, Brad began to work for one of Australia’s largest shopfitting businesses as their IT Manager.  Drawing on his experience from his previous roles, he quickly went to task rectifying issues with the network, greatly improving its performance and reliability.  He also centralised file storage throughout the business, and introduced a hierarchical permission structure where management heads had the responsibility and authorisation to provide permissions to the folders under their custodianship.  All while reducing 126 individual file shares throughout the network down to 12.  And as a final feather in his cap, he reduced IT and telephony expenditure by more than 50% while in that position.

In 2015, Brad become one of the founding members of ManIT Technology, and is our Head Network Engineer.

Over the last 11 years, along with Gerry Cohn, utilising his Electronic Engineering background, they have developed a series of SIP/VoIP based devices, including the SIP Phone/Ringer which can be used in several configurations, such as an intercom, loudspearker, or integrated with an audio system integrating your current fire protection system or audio rack with your phone system, additionally there are built in powered door-strikes and 240VAC relays which are activated via DMTF tones.

Today, Brad continues to assist moving small and medium businesses forward with their architecture, making the most of their current infrastructure or migrating them to the cloud depending on their needs

In 1985 Digital Automation closed following the “recession we had to have” upon which Gerry joined Rand Walker as a design engineer where he provided consulting and design services in fields as diverse as custom product design through to industrial batching control systems for everything from cement plants to plastics and pharmaceuticals. 1989 saw Gerry establish an independent consultancy providing custom hardware and software design services for a wide range of clients. During this time Gerry was instrumental in the design of a range of specialised keyboard products at Keycorp for the banking sector. Clients included names such as CBA and Westpac.

In 1993 Gerry joined AWA Traffic & Information Systems as an independent contractor to provide CAD systems expertise and became heavily involved in the design of the Delta 5 traffic controller. During this time Gerry met his future new business partners and in 1995 set up QTC (Quick Turn Circuits). Initially QTC specialised in manufacturing prototype quantities of printed circuit boards on a very fast turn-around, including multi-layer PCB’s.

The advent of the internet saw increasing competition from Asia in the PCB market and so we turned our attention once again to traffic control and proceeded to design the QTC Hadron traffic controller. We attained full type approval in 2001 and proceeded to supply traffic authorities
throughout Australia and New Zealand and exported our controllers all over the world. They can be seen controlling traffic lights at intersections throughout Australia. QTC was sold in 2013 and is still producing and exporting traffic controllers. In 2015 Gerry approached Brad Griffiths with the idea of forming a new company and thus ManIT was born.

Gerry works closely with Brad Griffiths, our Head Network Engineer to provide our clients with second-to-none network and IT support. He also continues to provide consultancy and custom hardware and software design services.

Wanting something a bit more permenent, yet flexable, she accepted an Office Assistant job with Winston Hills Swimart.  There she learnt about the accounting side of business. In May 2016 she resigned from this position to start up a Managed IT Business with her Husband and Father, ManIT Technologies Pty Ltd was born.

Here, Hayley gets to use all her skill sets and contacts from previous roles to make sure our customers get the best value and experience from their IT Provider.

In 2025, utilising her personable demeanor, she took the lead Sales and Technical roles as the business moved into mobile phones and SIMs.