A seasoned professional and hands-on practitioner, with over 30 years industry experience gained in both the UK and Australia. I am also currently a local Ambassador for RIMPA, and winner of the J Eddis Linton RIMPA Outstanding Individual Award for 2024, as well as collecting the Star Contributor to this Community Forum Award 2024 - let's just say RIMPA Live 2024 was a little nuts for me!
I enjoy sharing my industry experience and insights gleaned with the wider community and also do so in the utmost spirit of transparency and collegiality.
My work across the years has been varied and although I'm a Digital Archivist by trade, my work straddles all things records management from RM101 up to Executive Engagement and Strategies, and everything in between. I also have carried out numerous PDSP audits for agencies to help them with compliance towards the VPDSF here in Victoria, mapping line of business systems for recordkeeping in place, as well as carrying out program and business system level audits against recordkeeping, digital disposal, privacy, information security, hosted technologies, copyright, etc. My work seems to be more of a mix of information governance, data archiving and information security these days!
I have presented at CyberCon Melbourne 2023 and 2024, and once again, I am speaking at COSAC APAC 2025, where my paper will focus on the intersection between digital information management, data and privacy governance, and cyber security frameworks. I gave a paper and ran a workshop on information assets at the Health IM Conference in Melbourne in October 2024 - what a great community, and now with RIMPA membership, there's a reciprocal agreement between the two orgs - win/win!
I'm also in recovery from Stage 3 breast cancer so bear with me! It's been one helluva ride of late!!!