I currently work as a Development Manager for a medium sized non-profit organisation in Melbourne, Australia working on a wide range of technical projects. I have a real passion for what I do, and learning new skills is what really drives me. I have been involved with various industry and user groups including the System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU), which I highly recommend joining if you’re not already a member.
I enjoy presenting on technical topics to industry or user group meetings and conferences. Contact me if you’d like more information. My previous talks have included:
- Mobile Device Technologies (Macromedia Users Victoria)
- Web Application Security (Melbourne PHP User Group)
- Flash 3D (Macromedia Users Victoria)
- Spyware and Security Monitoring with Open Source Tools (Australian UNIX User Group Digital Pest Symposium)
- Introduction to PHP (Melbourne PHP User Group)
- Flash and Search Engine Optimisation (Macromedia Users Victoria)
- Search Engine Optimisation and Web Applications (with Ben Balbo) (Melbourne PHP User Group)
- Nagios (Melbourne PHP User Group)
- Web Application Security (Macromedia Users Victoria)
- Search Engine Optimisation (Open Source Developers’ Conference 2004)
- Building a Two-Way SMS Gateway (with Dean Tedesco) (Melbourne PHP User Group)
- Monitoring Anything and Everything with Nagios (Open Source Developers’ Conference 2005)
- Web Technologies (Apple Users Society of Melbourne)
- Web Application Security (Open Source Developers’ Conference 2006)
- Network Security Monitoring with Open Source Tools (SAGE-AU)
- Chair: The 2007 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium (SAGE-AU)
- Building Secure Web Applications (Melbourne PHP User Group)
- Web 2.0 is not a dirty word - or is it? (Adobe User Group)
- Chair: Spam Open Forum (with Maurice Castro) (SAGE-AU)
- The Adobe Apollo Alpha - Rich Internet Applications on the Desktop (Adobe User Group)
- Chair: Privacy Workshop (SAGE-AU)
- Insecurity 2.0 - Securing Next Generation and Rich Internet Applications (Adobe User Group)
- Chair: Spam Open Forum - Part Two (with Maurice Castro) (SAGE-AU)
- An Introduction to Microformats (Adobe User Group)
- Chumby and Flash Lite 3.0 (Adobe User Group)
- Chumby Part 2 - Creating a Widget with Flash CS3 (Adobe User Group)
- Automating and Managing System Builds and Configuration (with John Stern) (SAGE-AU)
- Puppet (Automating and Managing System Builds and Configuration Part 2) (SAGE-AU)
- Amazon Web Services Explained (Adobe User Group)
- Getting Things Done, Lifehacking and Time Management for System Administrators (SAGE-AU)
- Chair: The 2008 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium (SAGE-AU)
- Google Mapplets (Adobe User Group)
- Developing for iPhone (Adobe User Group)