| FITT is run by a Steering Committee, a group of volunteers from a variety of organisations. The current members are profiled below. Some also have public profiles on LinkedIn, where FITT has an active group.
The Steering Committee meets at least six times a year to promote various programs and initiatives designed to achieve the objectives of FITT and to support women in the ICT industry.
From time to time the committee has vacancies. If you are interested in being a part of this dynamic group, download a copy of the job description and contact us to apply.
 Maggie Alexander
Maggie
runs her own business, M &
M Consulting Services which provides consulting and
training in business process improvement, including business
planning and teamwork development. She works for large and
small organisations including health & financial services,
educational and technology-based organisations.
Prior to starting her own business, she worked for a
multinational computer company in various managerial
positions. She also worked for NSW TAFE and the NSW
Government in industry development.
She is a foundation member of FITT and has been a member of
several private sector boards.
LinkedIn member.
 Melanie
Cheong
Melanie Cheong is an IT Consultant with 15+
years experience performing many roles. In South Africa, Melanie
worked in the sole electricity provider; the second largest
operation (14+ million subscribers) of a telecommunications
multinational, and 2 outsourced service providers, including
IBM.
She specialises in IT quality and governance, process
architecture and standards - managing projects and change.
Melanie holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science,
Mathematics) and Masters in Engineering, and is a Certified
Software Quality Analyst.
Melanie hopes to use her not-for-profit experience to advance
FITT’s objectives of developing and promoting women in the
Australian industry.
LinkedIn member
 Tracy Currie
Tracy has been in the telecommunications industry for 20 years
and held positions at Senior Executive and Director level.
She is a quick, lateral analytical thinker with strong
decision-making and change management skills. Her strong
values and communication skills build trust and this
facilitates strong relationships with staff, clients,
suppliers and the industry.
Management experience includes: Founder and Executive
Director of Sirius Telecommunications Ltd, where she
undertook various positions throughout the company’s
development including: CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, General
Management, Operational management, Change management and
Project management. Since leaving Sirius in 2006, Tracy has
undertaken various consulting roles and the position of COO
and CEO at Zamro International.
LinkedIn
member.
 Kriti Colless
Kriti is a founding director of Executive Women’s Business and principal consultant for the Orijen Group (www.orijen.com.au). She is also the Head of Research for Robertson Search.
Kriti's professional career spans the full breadth of marketing and sales across IT&T, Management Consulting, Financial Services, Education, Not-for-Profit and Professional Services. She had worked across the globe with organisations like McKinsey & Co, Accenture, Telstra and British Telecom. Her specialisation ranges from strategic marketing, change management to running local and regional operations. She had mentored senior women in Top 20 ASX listed organisations and had been deeply involved in mentoring nascent businesses. She also has a Masters of Business (Distinction) from UTS.
As a non-IT ICT professional of over 15 years, Kriti is passionate about accelerating the progress of women in IT&T from all backgrounds. She believes that FITT is well placed to highlight issues around diversity and women in senior roles in IT and more importantly, to find pragmatic solution for organisations.
 Vanessa Giannos
Vanessa Giannos, Principal of
www.myperformancecoach.com.au is a HR and Human Growth Guru,
having developed a wealth of HR, people development and
strategic knowledge from her local and global HR experiences
over the last 22 years. With phenomenal passion, strong business
acumen and strategic skills, Vanessa takes a pragmatic approach
with executive teams and has delivered tremendous results
building high performance cultures, strong employee engagement,
increased profitability and, performance, communication, service
excellence, leadership capability, knowledge management and team
building.
Vanessa holds a Masters in Human Resources Management, is a
senior member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel &
Development (UK), holds three formal coaching qualifications and
is a qualified DiSC & MBTI qualified facilitator. Vanessa is the
Principal of My Performance Coach, plays an active role as a
Steering Committee member of FITT and leads the Mentoring and
Skill development program.
 Erin Guy
Originally from Toronto, Erin Guy has been living in Sydney for
the last six years and has been part of Cliftons Training
Facilities since her arrival. With a firm operational
appreciation of the Clients’ training needs, Erin is a Senior
Account Manager that works with a portfolio of 30 clients in
leading ICT, Financial and Government organisations, managing
their training infrastructure across Asia Pacific.
Initially hired on as part of the Sydney Operations Team at
Cliftons, Erin was instrumental in ensuring clients had a smooth
and consistent roll out of training requirements. Erin then
moved over to Sun Microsystems in an Account Management role to
work in Sun Learning Services on its Hardware and Software
training requirements across Australia. Prior to coming over to
Sydney, Erin worked for Canada’s largest telecommunications
company Rogers Communications working as a Product Marketing
Manager for one its online products.
Erin thoroughly enjoys working with a variety of different
organisations. Meeting people and harnessing relationships is
her passion. She enjoys being a part of FITT and assisting in
providing informative events paired with providing women with a
quality networking environment to meet like-minded women.
LinkedIn member
&
Facebook.
 Connie Iong
Connie has more than 15 years experience in the SAP space,
progressing from project analysis to technical development,
program management and executive leadership roles. She is
currently working with GPT to implement their SAP solution.
Prior to this, Connie held various SAP implementation and
management roles in Transfield Services, Goodman Fielder and
Carter Holt Harvey. She is an active participant and Executive
Committee Member of the SAP Australian Users Group (SAUG), a not
for profit organisation focused on encouraging licensed
customers to network and share their knowledge.
Supplemented by an MBA from MGSM, Connie has extensive industry
and business experience in strategic and budget planning,
technology roadmaps, business process improvements, enterprise
architecture, information delivery, leadership and high
performance team development and business engagements at the ‘C’
level.
Connie supports FITT’s mission and enjoys encouraging and
attracting more women to the ICT workforce. LinkedIn member.
 Conni Marais
Conni started a career in IT at a large energy provider in
Southern Africa and progressed from technical programming roles
to business analysis in a BA Centre of Excellence. She relocated
to Australia in 2002, where she continues working in IT in the
educational, tourism marketing and FMCG sectors. She is a member
of ACS and ACS-W the SIG for Women in IT. LinkedIn member.
 Jennifer
Duryea
Jennifer is a driven Executive IT Professional with extensive
and diversified experience in both managing and leading a
variety of IT business disciplines, and more recently selling
enterprise solutions to support these business disciplines.
Over a period of 27 years she had attained a high level of
experience. She started her career as a developer, but then
moved into more strategic roles such as Implementation
Management, Quality Assurance, Account Management, General
Management and Solution Sales. She possesses a strong focus on
process improvement and implementation, and the inherent value
this brings to organisations. Her skills and experience have
been accomplished through working with private and government
organisations in Australia and internationally.
She is interested in joining the FITT committee to contribute
and participate in encouraging more women into the field of ICT.
 Mary McLeod
Mary has over 18 years IT&T experience in a variety of roles
and holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (Uni SA) and an MBA in
Technology Management (La Trobe, Melbourne).
Mary started initially in technical IT roles in Adelaide
(Mitsubishi Motors & Telecom Australia) then moved to the UK to
work for CSC & GE Capital on client sites delivering IT
Professional services. After stints in Technical Support & IT
Training, Mary moved into Sales (Pre & Post), Marketing &
Strategy. Mary has worked for start-ups (IT venture capital
incubators) and a number of IT Vendors including Telelogic, PTC,
Infor, KAZ and now currently at Telstra. Mary has a broad range
of IT management skills, best-practise B2B marketing, strategic
approach to IT solutions strategy and values excellent
relationships above all else as a hallmark of great teamwork and
delivering hard outcomes.
Mary has been involved in various IT mentoring programs and is
particularly passionate about ensuring women have the necessary
communication and career management skills to achieve their
potential in the technology industry. As a FITT Steering
Committee for 3 years, Mary contributes to the marketing,
sponsorships & strategy of FITT.
LinkedIn member.
 Fiona
Noyce
Since 2001 Fiona had been a full-time teacher at The
Hills College of TAFE teaching a range of software, hardware,
networking, and communication skills. Her specializations are
virtualization and networking.
For the last 1 ½ years she had been the SharePoint mentor for
Baulkham Hills College staff. When she first became a full-time
teacher she completed a Graduate Diploma in Vocational Education
and Training. Previous to this she was a part-time teacher at
various TAFE colleges teaching a range of IT skills.
Prior to this she worked in the IT industry for two large IT
companies in the roles of Computer Operator and Technical
Support Officer. At University she completed a Bachelor of
Computer Science Degree at Wollongong University.
Fiona is keen to encourage more women into the ICT industry
especially when she teaches in a male dominated area. She would
like to inspire women to achieve their goals for their IT career
through facilitating networking opportunities, knowledge
transfer and awareness of the TAFE environment.
 Ellie
Trajkovska
Ellie had worked in the IT environment for the past 9 years, 6
years using her Business Systems Analysis and consulting skills
to help small and large organisations align their business and
IT strategy. Ellie is passionate about the latest information
and communication technology and services, and finding solutions
which take complexity out of the equation. In addition she has
strong business acumen, having run her own business, and
completed an MBA degree.
Ellie’s passion lies in the business strategy space, taking
ownership of a product/service and developing it further.
Ellie would like the opportunity to bring her business and IT
skills to the table and work on further sponsorship, marketing
and events to increase the overall presence and awareness for
the organisation. Ellie believes in FITT’s current goals to
empower and assist women achieve the best within their field.
She builds relationships quickly and is passionate about
achieving the FITT objectives.
 Claudine
Challita
Claudine joined the ICT industry as a Marketing
Graduate with Fuji Xerox. After completing her 3 years at FX as
Marketing Executive, she joined PGi as Marketing Coordinator.
During her first 2 years at PGi, she grew within the
organisation to become the A&NZ Marketing Manager.
Claudine has a strong passion for organising events and enjoys
being part of large scale group projects. With a Degree in
Business, majoring in Marketing. Management and IT, she is a
growing leader looking for opportunities to use and share her
experience through initiatives that fall outside of her
full-time role. As FITT’s values are aligned with her personal
goals, she hopes to add value to the Steering Committee by
facilitating the personal and professional growth of women
entering the ICT industry..
 Christine
van Toorn
Christine Van Toorn is a Lecturer and Director of the BIT and ISM Co-op
Scholarship Programs in the School of Information Systems, Technology and
Management (SISTM) at UNSW. Her commercial background is diverse and she has
considerable experience across a wide variety of industries. Christine has a
research master’s degree from UNSW and her current research interests lie in the
areas of knowledge management, eLearning and Collaborative Learning, with
particular emphasis in relation to human computer interaction. She has over 18
years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels
as well as the corporate sector. Christine has extensive industry experience in
the fields of information systems, information technology and accounting, she is
a CISA and a CPA member.
Having made the transition from Industry to Academia Christine is keen to
inspire and influence young women to embrace the field of ICT and all it has to
offer. It’s a vibrant and relatively young industry offering a plethora of
opportunities just waiting to be embraced. This message needs to be sent and
needs to be heard. In the field of ICT, everyone can make a difference, no
matter how large or how small, every bit helps.
 Alice
Watkins
Alice joined a major British computer company as a graduate in the eighties and
became an account manager for IT systems in government and universities. For 10
years, Alice taught management and marketing at UTS on programs including the
UTS IT Management Program for IT professionals.
Alice spent 9 years as Director of Industry Liaison at the Faculty of IT UTS.
This role included responsibilities for raising funding from industry for IT
degree scholarships and for encouraging girls to study and remain engaged in IT.
Alice is currently responsible for industry liaison in the UTS Careers Service.
Alice is keen to help and encourage females to enter and remain engaged with IT;
and influence employers to provide working environments that support women in
these aims.
 Monique
McIntosh
With more than 20 years operational, sales and management experience, Monique
McIntosh joined the IT industry 12 years ago and in that time has successfully
managed and implemented people, process and technology strategies for a number
of companies in both commercial and Government sectors. Monique brings valuable
insight and knowledge regarding the leadership and management challenges faced
by service organisations today.
Since joining the 57% NSW Government owned data centre and managed services
company, ac3, www.ac3.com.au
in 2007, Monique has been fast tracked to the position of Chief Operating
Officer to oversee operations.
Monique is passionate about seeing more women joining the IT industry and
forging strong support/business networks to facilitate their success in the
industry.
Judy Weldon
Judy has over 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry, holding a
variety of roles in marketing and communications. With a Bachelor of Arts (UNE)
and Masters of Marketing (Uni Newcastle), Judy is currently managing the NSW
Internal Communications team for Telstra Enterprise and Government.
Judy is passionate about supporting women achieve their personal and career
potential. Linked-in member.
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