Portfolio

Ran Rotary COVID-19 Information Campaign Between February and June 2020, I organized a major social media activity on behalf of the Rotary E-Club of Melbourne to spread positive community messaging...

COVID-19 Food Security Program and Social Media From March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, all the way through to 2022, I've been volunteering my time for the Australian Red Cross COVID...

Recording Labs for ACG's AWS Solution Architect Associate Course Spent some time along with the rest of the Content Maintenance team recording some updated labs for the AWS Certified Solutions Arch...

AWS User Group Panel Discussion Had a brilliant time as part of a panel discussion about the latest releases in AWS

Received Medals for Emergency Operations Awarded the Australian Red Cross Meritorious Service Award for decorated service during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and an additional clasp for the National Emer...

Promoted to Senior Manager, Content Maintenance Technology changes so often, and keeping training up-to-date brings unique challenges. In this role, I was charged with building the first unit of it...

Read Leaders Eat Last After uniquely challenging experiences leading the State Planning Team during the national emergency of Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie, I found a need to explore more about le...

Joined Polywork Super User Group Invited to join the group of Super Users of the Polywork Community!

Hosted AWS This Week A Cloud Guru hosts a weekly web series called AWS This Week, where we provide a short update of the most interesting news from AWS in the past week. This was my first time doin...

How to become an AWS Community Builder So many people want to get more involved in the AWS community, but just don't know... how to do it. Took some time to write up a laundry list of potential thi...

AWS App Runner First Impressions Blog One of the harder and more interesting types of writing, detailing your thoughts on new technology (less than 24 hours post-release). Given my hope that it'll ...

Built a WiFi TV Remote Ran out of AAA batteries during COVID lockdown, and decided to over-engineer a replacement. Had plenty of fun, learned a lot about building wireless capabilities with Arduino...

Joined the Rotaract Club of Barwon Extending my volunteering into a different realm, I found out about the existence of Rotaract Clubs, and one just down the road from me. Introduced me to differen...

Largest Public Speaking Event Some 300 people in the room, and more watching the stream, listening to me talk partially about a product, but more just going off-script about the amazing opportuniti...

Awarded ACG Professional Growth Award Nominated by peers, and selected by ACG Leadership

Left Bachelor of Information Technology program Let's admit it: Plans change sometimes, and we decide to do a course correction in life. With my career starting to take off, and university being ev...

Turned down high-paying entry-level role This might seem a strange one to include, but bear with me. Around the same time I was offered a role with Australian Red Cross, I was offered a similar rol...

Developed Automated Citrix VDA 7.15 Management Platform Non-profits can't afford to waste time with poor desktop performance, small technical teams can't afford to waste time chasing routine issues...

Joined the Victoria State Emergency Service Geelong Unit What seemed like a strange idea at the time to join my local SES Unit turned out to be a truly life-changing, and pivotal experience which h...

Mentee moved from Service Desk role to Sysadmin! Exceptionally proud of a good friend, who I was mentoring in her first role IT working in a Level 1 Service Desk role, who exited her role directly ...

AWS Community Builder Recognized for contributions to the AWS Community, across mentoring, meetup hosting, speaking engagements, forums/Reddit, and blog posts. With only 26% of applicants accepted ...

Virtual Rotary Club Changeovers Article The mid-year is an important time for Rotary Clubs, as they celebrate the year gone by, and welcome the coming year, and a new Board and Leadership Team. Glo...

Produced the first Rotary Model United Nations Virtual Assembly Challenges of COVID extended to major annual events that would normally be run in person. Running the Model United Nations Assembly i...

Launched 5kradius app When Victoria's first Stage 4 lockdown was introduced, with the 5k movement restriction, I spent half an hour building a basic web app that would show a 5k radius around a par...

Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds Project One of the best things about being a Rotarian is the opportunity to put in some elbow grease to do things that will make a difference to others. This da...

Awarded Paul Harris Fellow with Sapphires Awarded by the Rotary E-Club of Melbourne, in recognition of service particularly to youth programs through Rotaract, and the global Rotary community throu...

National Missing Persons Hackathon Australia 2020 Scored in top 25%, despite competing as an individual against full teams. Used Open Source Intelligence skills to source information about missing ...

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Without a doubt, this had been the hardest certification exam I’ve taken to date. Spent about two months preparing and studying all of the more edge...

Joined the Rotary E-Club of Melbourne Found a new club that suited my life: Needing to travel, being unable to commit to in-person meetings, and leveraging modern technology to make a difference. N...

Black Summer Fires 19/20 Deployed to serve in roles as State Agency Planning Officer, Liaison Officer, and Deputy State Commander to locations across Victoria and South Australia between December 2...

Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie Deployed to serve as State Agency Planning Officer for Australian Red Cross Queensland Emergency Services