Passionate about Information Technology and how it can be used to enhanced and assist the way human beings live their lives. My passion and experience in the Information Technology Industry has lead me to talking to High School and University students, technologists, developers, business managers, government, CEO’s, designers, entertainers, educators, lawyers, or as I like to say “all walks of life”… I believe in giving back and supporting the Industry and Open Source Community through Advocacy and Education.
Public Speaking Engagements
Joomla Day 2017 Sydney – Presented talk Accessibility, SEO and Joomla
Dev World 2016 Melbourne – Presented talk Accessibility in the Land of Mac [The Good, The Bad, The Voice Over]
Ignite at O’Riley Velocity Conference 2015 – Presented talk Terrible Code or Cyber Terrorism: Which Will Kill You Faster?
Linux Con Europe – Dublin – Waving the Open Source Flag in Government – October 2015
Dev World 2015 Melbourne – Presented talk Diversity through iOS development
Linux Con America – Seattle – Waving the Open Source Flag in Government – August 2015
Linux Australia Conference, Auckland, New Zealand – Presented talk on the Architecture Design of FirefoxOS – January 2015
Joomla Day, Sydney, Australia – Presented talk on how to achieve Accessibility on a Budget with Joomla – October 2014
Linux Conference, Chicago America – Presented talk on the Architecture Design of FirefoxOS – August 2014
OSCON, Portland, America – Ran an Introduction To Python Children’s Workshop for Kids Day – July 2014
Open Source Developers Conference – Presented a beginners talk and discussion on “What is BitCoin and Digital Currencies – December 2012
Open Source Developers Conference – Chaired Panel on “Open Source Licensing” – December 2012
EMFCamp – Presented a talk on “UK Communications Bill and what it means to you” – Septembre 2012
London Geek Girls Annual Dinner – Presented a comical talk on “The World of Internet Trolls” – August 2012
Geek Girls Sydney Dinner – Presented talk on “Your online brand and why you should care” – February 2012
Drupal DownUnder Conference – Presented talk on “Drupal 7 Themeing inheritance” – January 2012 – January 2012
Developer, Developer, Developer – Participated in an open panel discussion hosted by Nick Hodge “Open Source & Microsoft Ecosystem” – July 2011
Microsoft School of PHP – Introduction video for online PHP education course launched by Microsoft “School of PHP” – March 2011
PHP Sydney User Group – Presented talk on “mod_php and FastCGI a look at the history and architecture” – March 2011
OSDC 2010 PHP Day – Presented talk on “mod_php and FastCGI: Differences and Trade-offs with Apache and IIS” – October 2010
Geek Girl Dinners Scotland – Presented talk on “One Laptop Per Child Australia – making a difference” – September 2010
Edinburgh Tech meet-up Presented talk on “Xo technology stack Talk” – August 11 2010
PyCon Australia Conference Presented lighting talk on “Sugar and Python”June 26 2010
Microsoft Digi Girlz Event – Girls High School Day – Day Event with years 9 to 11, participated in round table discussion on Life as an Information Technology Graduate – 24 March 2010
Australian Computer Society – Talks to International Students about ACS program and gaining employment in IT – various dates 2009
Australian Computer Society – Young IT, Peer discussion evening – One on one discussions with students about Open Source and being a Woman in IT – various dates 2009
Southern Cross University – WIT – IT Girls High School Program – IT study/employment discussion with Coffs Harbour High School, Woolgoolga High School – various dates 2009
Southern Cross University – WIT – IT Girls Day – Workshop day with Woolgoolga High School – various dates 2009
Open Education Conference – Presented ALTC Exchange discussion around Open Source frameworks and Creative Commons initiative used on site – November 21 2008
Australian Computer Society – Transition from Student to Employee – May 23rd 2003
Events Organised
PHP Australia 2015, Code of Conduct Liason, Room Mentor
DrupalCon Sydney 2012, Local Social Media Lead maintaining @DrupalCon twitter account and facebook campaigns
Open Source Developers Conference 2012, Lead Organiser
BitCoin Conference London, Co-Organiser for BitCoin Conference 2012 London
PHP MiniConf, held as part of the Open Source Developer Conference Mini Conf Days 2011
Learning Drupal Sydney, Drupal Workshop Meet-ups
