Members' Links
We have over 150 members in the Wellington group; the following members have elected to be profiled on this site. All members are invited to list a profile here. If you'd like your profile listed, please contact Miraz: miraz@firstbite.co.nz.
Members are listed alphabetically by first name.
Brenda Leeuwenberg
Brenda is an internet consultant who has been working with the web since 1996. Currently focusing on emerging technologies, in particular content management and anything internet. Brenda is the founder of Webgrrls Aotearoa. After getting the group started and running it for six years (!) Brenda moved to Europe to find her fortune on foreign shores.
Celia Wade Brown
http://www.wellington.greens.org.nz
A trustee of 2020 Communications Trust since 1996 and a Wellington City Councillor, Celia formerly worked as a consultant, programmer and analyst in financial mainframe systems in the 80s and 90s. She lives in Island Bay and is passionate about improving access to information and technology.
Dale Copeland
Assemblage artist, writer of websites for artists.
Helen Varley Jamieson
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
Helen has worked professionally in the internet industry since 1996, in New Zealand and the UK. Her work includes writing for and about the web, project management and consultation. She is also an accomplished playwright and arts writer, and is currently exploring cyberformance (live performance in graphical chat rooms) and the creative potential of the internet as a performance medium.
Jo Dunning
Jo lives in Raumati Beach on the Kapiti Coast and is an ICT teacher at Raumati Beach Primary School - the only school on the coast to have a dedicated ICT teacher. This year, she has a classroom-sized computer suite and over the course of four terms will see almost every child in the school through the suite.
Judi Lapsley Miller
http://www.psychokiwi.org/judi
Judi is self-employed research consultant who plays with websites for fun. She has been kicking around the web for over ten years (since about 1995), and is an inaugral member of Wellington Webgrrls. She currently is the website convener for the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary volunteer webgroup, and she maintains websites for the NZ letterboxing community, NZ psychophysics community, and also occassionally maintains her own horribly out-of-date and badly formatted pages (www.psychokiwi.org/judi). Today, for the very first time, she was actually paid for generating html - she's hoping it's a sign of things to come.
Linda Ward
Linda is responsible for everything on the Touchwood Books web page, and is totally self-taught. Her focus is on delivering content, and the site functions extremely well and has attracted a global customer base.
Louise Parkin
http://www.saintsinformation.co.nz
Louise Parkin uses her traditional library training as a basis for her business Saints Information. She set the business up in London 4 years ago and moved the business to New Zealand in 2000, taking advantage of the time difference by providing an overnight research service to the UK. Louise is the kind of person who can be relied upon to "make things happen".
Lynne McAnulty-Street
http://www.geocities.com/basenjinut
I graduated (Yay) with UCOL's degree:
Bachelor Information & Communications Technology (Applied).
I signed for the degree programme ('02) after I had designed, implemented and managed the Windows network for my last school employer, Solway College.
During the degree programme, my Industry Project involved analysis of and modifications to a primary school's computer network that had been performing erratically.
The aspects of IT I most enjoy involve:
- text and web design;
- business packages;
- or network administration.
I am seeking work in Manawatu or Auckland.
Miraz Jordan
Miraz writes for websites, writes Tips and newsletters (Mac Tips, Panui) and wrote the Newbies Guide and PowerUp articles for Macguide magazine. She is also an organising member of Webstock.
Miraz is an author of the WordPress 2 : Visual QuickStart Guide book
Olwen Williams
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~olwen
Olwen has been employed predominantly in IT development since the early 70's. She became involved in the internet around 1997 when free web space was available with her internet account and she put it to use in learning HTML and creating her own website http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~olwen.
Around the same time she started her obesity surgery support list (OSSG) which now has over 5000 members. She has been employed by Safe Air Limited http://www.safeair.co.nz in Blenheim since early 2000. At the beginning of 2002 she took over a tourism website http://www.bandbclub.com to occupy her spare time. Her latest venture is a web portal http://www.ossg.info for OSSG.
Pauline Proud
http://www.publichealth.org.nz
Pauline is based in Auckland and co-ordinates the Public Health WWW Networking Project (funded by the Ministry of Health). She provides free training and support for a wide range of provider groups throughout Aotearoa.
Beginners, and advanced Internet users are coached or trained either in their workplace, or in computer suites within their communities. A community development approach is used, with priority given to smaller groups, Maori, Pacific Island and rural providers.
Pauline is often asked for advice on planning web site development, and provides formative evaluation in this area. A priority for the project is to encourage collaboration between agencies working towards similar health goals, and strategy workshops are held regularly to facilitate this process within several sector groups.
Rachel McAlpine
Rachel's Contented online professional development courses train people to write better web content. She's the author of "Better Business Writing on the Web", published August 2007. Her many other books including "Crash Course in Corporate Communications", various novels, plays and poetry collections, not to mention hundreds of articles for people who write, edit or manage web content. Rachel's blog is also called Contented.
Rachel Hamilton-Williams
One of the original Webgrrls, General Manager and Co-Owner of Katipo Communications, Rachel has been working in the internet industry since 1995. Rachel's company hosts the Webgrrls mailing list and provides a content management system for Webgrrls to use. Rachel has an interest in information based websites, library systems, content management and alternative work methods.
Rebecca Ewert
Rebecca is an acupuncturist who lives and works in Wellington. In her practice she uses methods that are comfortable to her patients and very effective at the same time: Japanese Acupuncture and gentle spinal realignment. She also writes books and articles and translates health related material into German or English.
Rebecca Holden
Rebecca Holden is a freelance graphic designer / illustrator in both print and web design. She also works for Katipo Communications, a web development company, as their graphic designer.
Terri Shaw
Terri's experience is in print and web, communications strategy, brand management and editing. She has solid experience in devising systems to meet customer needs, increase efficiency and use good practice.
Terri has managed several web development projects. In her current role she is on an intranet development team and also oversees and trains people in web writing with a usability focus. She has an A+ pass in the Web Writing and Design Certificate from Open Poly.
Vicki Smith
http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
Vicki is a visual artist who works in a design capacity in both print and web. Vicki has been involved in second chance education work in IT and design. She has worked collaboratively on mural projects and in the Digital Story Telling medium as participant and facilitator. She has always had a strong interest in theatre, film and stage design, and has recently been exploring this in the online environment as part of the[abc]experiment.