Biography

I am the information security manager for Carroll Community College, Westminster. I work with a small talented team that help the college deliver on its mission.

Previously, I worked for New Zealand's largest government agency in Wellington. As a member of an exceptional and fast-paced team of Cybersecurity Architects, managing multi-million-dollar projects across various specialist areas.

Before that, I lead a large team of amazing people who directly supported the 20,000 students and 4000 staff at the University of Otago. Over a decade of experience allowed me to develop a very large team of over 40 staff that were front and center of the delivery of Information Technology, Information Security, faculty advisory as well as testing applications for production.

I’m an advocate for Educause and try to be involved with the wide variety of evolving technological changes and share experiences as we all try to navigate the future needs in Higher Education. In doing so, I am a member of various committees including (HEISC) Chief Privacy Officers, IAM, Data Governance, AI, Cyber Sec and Privacy Awareness, Small Colleges, Regulated InfoSec Compliance. I also chair the Colleges Technology and Security Committee.

I hold chartered status with the British Computer Society, a Prince2 Agile Project Manager Practitioner certificate, ITIL Service Management, CompTIA Security+, and ISACA’s Certified Information Security Manager certification.