My Profile

Most recently, I worked as the Knowledge and Information Management Team Leader in the New Zealand Defence Force's Training and Education Directorate based in Palmerston North, with responsibilities related to various systems including the Defence Force's Learning Management System. Previously I was the Flexible Learning and Teaching Manager for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University, New Zealand.

I have a background in education (having taught in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom), hold a Bachelor of Education, Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science and completed my Master of Education in Online and Distance Education (with Honours) in 2010, researching the perceptions of staff and students in the use of asynchronous and synchronous tools.

In 2009 I was appointed New Zealand's first Higher Education Adobe Education Leader in recognition of my work in the area of web-conferencing. In 2004 I was appointed as one of 15 inaugural Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand.

I have experience in a number of multimedia and web-authoring products, as well as an absolute passion for all Apple products, notably the Macintosh. From 2002-2007, I wrote the multimedia section of New Zealand's only Macintosh magazine "NZ Macguide". In 2003, I launched NZMac.com, a website dedicated to supporting the New Zealand Macintosh community, and a sister site (NZiPhone.com) in 2008, before selling the sites in 2011.

NZMac.com was the largest Macintosh web site in New Zealand and ran on an open source content management system called Joomla. I am an experienced Joomla user (this site runs on Joomla) and NZMac.com was featured as a case study in a published Joomla book.