Speakers - AODC 2010
Because the agenda for AODC 2010 is still being developed, we don't have a
complete list of speakers yet. However, the following speakers are confirmed for
AODC 2010 in Darwin.
We were fortunate to be able to present an exciting and expert group of
speakers from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. They
represent an enormous pool of talent and experience. As well as a collection of
new speakers, we appreciated the return of some of our most popular speakers from
previous years.
Monica Allen (Talent2)
Monica Allen’s career spans more than 16 years as a Learning and Development Team Leader, Technical Writer, Instructional Designer and Technical Communication Consultant. Her responsibilities have included nearly all aspects of learning and development projects, from tender preparation, scoping, estimating, planning, team formation, project management, training needs analysis, designing, developing and delivering training programs. Monica has worked as a project team member and as a Team Leader of large national and international projects with the responsibility for teams of up to 16 writers. She is currently the President of the Society of Technical Communication (Australia Chapter).
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Matthew Ellison (Matthew Ellison Consulting)
Matthew Ellison has 18 years experience as a user assistance professional in the software industry. He has been a popular speaker at online documentation conferences since 1997, and now runs his own independent UK-based training and consulting company specialising in online Help design and technology. Matthew holds a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education from Bristol University in the UK. He is also a Certified RoboHelp Instructor and a MadCap Flare Certified Instructor.
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Dave Gash (HyperTrain Dot Com)
Dave Gash is the owner of HyperTrain dot Com, a California firm specialising in training and consulting for hypertext developers. A veteran software professional with over twenty years of programming, documentation, and training experience, Dave holds degrees in Business and Computer Science, and is well known in the technical publications community as an interesting and animated technical instructor. When he's not developing Web pages, scripts, and help systems for his clients, Dave is a frequent speaker at User Assistance seminars and conferences in the US and around the world.
http://www.hypertrain.com/
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Suchi Govindarajan (MYOB)
TBA
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Sarah Maddox (Atlassian)
Sarah Maddox is one of five technical writers at Atlassian, the company which develops and sells Confluence (the enterprise wiki). Sarah has worked as a technical writer for over ten years, at various companies and using a variety of tools. She is now a wiki enthusiast, though also well acquainted with the challenges of using a wiki for technical documentation. She writes up some of her experiences on her blog at http://ffeathers.wordpress.com. She lives in a house on a hill near Sydney.
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Frank 'Choco' Munday (Australian Federal Police)
Frank 'Choco' Munday has an adventure-filled background, having spent 20 years in the Royal Australian Navy as an Electronic Technician. Although writing was always something he excelled at, Frank didn't realise how much he would enjoy it as a career! After a short period in the computer industry, his work life evolved (too rapidly) into Technical Publishing in Defence Electronics. After a stint in management, Frank returned to Internet and intranet documentation, working for a variety of organisations including CSIRO, University of Canberra, and IP Australia. Frank is currently a permanent member of the Australian Federal
Police, for whom he has developed a wide range of on line documentation and training
projects. His role includes teaching Technical Writing techniques, publishing Technical
Manuals, Help Systems, User Guides, brochures - in fact, anything that needs authoring and publishing. Frank's "Life After Work" is Hot Rods - and writing! He has had published three Technical Manuals on Auto Electronics, Electronic Fuel Injection and Engine Management Systems published, and has another work on the way.
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Tony Self (HyperWrite)
Tony Self is a founding partner in HyperWrite Pty Ltd, which was the first hypertext document development company in Australia. Tony has over 20 years documentation experience, including 13 years with online and hypertext documents in WinHelp and HTML formats. He has managed large online documentation projects in Australia and New Zealand. Tony has undertaken roles in technology training design and delivery, and computer-based training development, in Australia and Ireland. He has spoken at conferences in Australia, the United States, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In addition to consulting, Tony lectures in technical communication at Swinburne University. He is the co-author of Swimming With the Tide, a Business Guide to the Internet.
http://www.hyperwrite.com/
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Joe Welinske (WritersUA)
Joe Welinske is the president of Seattle-based WritersUA, formerly known as WinWriters. The WritersUA/WinWriters Conference in the US draws hundreds of attendees each year from around the world to share the latest in user assistance design and implementation. Joe has been involved with software documentation development since 1984. Together with Scott Boggan and David Farkas, Joe authored two editions of the popular and pioneering book Developing Online Help for Windows. He has also taught online Help courses at the University of Washington and UC Santa Cruz.
http://www.writersua.com/
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