GIRL
GEEKS
ARE
GREAT!
We want to raise the profile of women in technology and encourage more of you to speak, teach and be visible to the women on their way up. We need more role models and yes – you are one!
We invite you to become a member of Girl Geek Academy so we can say: “Here’s what Girl Geeks look like and here is what they do”.
For $99 we will give you first access to our events, which usually sell out in 24 hours, showcase your profile in the Girl Geek Academy member directory and invite you to try our online courses when we launch in 2017.
Help us reach 1000 women and let’s continue to create #SheHacks, #SheMakes and #SheMakes_Games and also help us launch new initiatives the Girl Geek way.
We have plenty more up our sleeve and we need your help to make it happen. If you’re up for helping us get to one million girl geeks become a member today!
MEET OUR MEMBERS
Natalie Nguyen
I’m a student
Hey guys! Let me tell you a little about myself. I'm a student at a catholic primary school in Qld. I enjoy having a 'me time'on holidays and after school, I can be a big procrastinator but I am also a hard worker when I want to be. My hobbies include things with creativity. I love drawing, painting, building, dancing and singing. For an extra I also love a little bit of watching movies and gaming.
Donna Niazov
Manager
Donna works as a Manager at Family Friendly Carpet Cleaning & Pest Control where she manages a very professional team. She is a supreme networker and truly believes in collaboration and connection with other businesses. Miki, her husband, and Donna took residence in the Caloundra area in 2011. In 2012 they adopted there little mini poodle Tigger and in December 2013 Donna gave birth to a beautiful baby girl called Ariella. The family dream is to become the number one provider for household services across the Sunshine Coast region and to get to know every person that helps become that.
Ann Nolan
Co-founder & Chief Experience / Brand Officer
Ann is a Co-founder & Chief Experience at Snobal. With a background in psychology, behavior change, experience design, digital transformation and strategy, my interests lie in how to use emerging technologies for enriching human experiences and deepening our understanding of ourselves, each other and our environment. Ann is a very positive and collegial workmate. She brings considerable communications and technical expertise to any workplace. Her passions are writing, running, skiing, cooking, travel, good company, a mean coffee and people who inspire her. She is a proud mum, lover of stories, podcasts and words.
Ines Norman
Digital Producer
Digital Producer. 24. Australasian lady. Often questioning how I get covered in Glitter & Sparkles.
Nicola Nye
Technical Writer
Nicola has been a developer with many of Melbourne's internet startups over the years. She now focuses on helping users help themselves (and helping developer teams think about their users) through the magical, mystical arts of technical writing. She has two real children and a garden filled with fairies, superheroes, dragons and the occasional unicorn.
Jen O’Brien
Director
Jennifer is working as a Director at 5Flags. She is a collaborative, outcome focused leader, with over 15 years experience working within the private and public mental health sector in a range of clinical, training, project management and leadership roles. Currently she is working in management positions at two organisations; Foundation House and 5Flags. Well known for her broad work towards improving the health and community sector through training, education and utilising technology to support organisations to work effectively and efficiently with their stakeholders. She is possessing strong relationship and influencing skills, proven organisational and people management experience, training and development skills and experience developing and building online communities.
Nicola O’Brien
Founder
Nicola O’Brien, founder of Code Rangers and lover of tech, creativity and coding. Nicola works with primary and secondary school students, encouraging them to explore coding and computing, and unleash their creativity in a digital world. She has a strong emphasis on creating learning opportunities so that children can create projects of interest to them. Favourite creations from students this term include dancing unicorns with rainbow streamers and lava filled platformers. Code Rangers works with over 200 students per week in schools, after school care centres and at our own workshops. Nicola can provide tailored content for classrooms, mapped to the digital technologies curriculum. Working with students on a daily basis gives her a valuable perspective on which projects will work, and how to engage and excite children. Ask her about incursions and professional learning for teachers.
Meg O’Connell
Production Manager
Meg is a Production Manager at Ludo Studio. She is a freelance producer, writer and director. Meg graduated from Arts/Law at the Australian National University. She's been working in theatre and live entertainment for eons (little eons) and, more recently, television and film. Meg loves beautiful things.
Grace O’Hara
Experiential Marketing Coordinator
A creative young thing, with a passion for making the world a better place. A few things that I enjoy are... - Creatively disrupting outdated social norms - Collaborating with unlikely combinations of people - Measuring success in terms of happiness - Finding new problems to solve, friends and adventures
Ryville Ochoa
Senior Producer
Ryville is currently working as a Digital Producer at Whybin TBWA. She wants to leverage her passion and knowledge of digital advertising in a role where she can contribute to building relevant consumer experiences and work towards a greater cause.
Kate Olsson
Digital Marketer
Kate is currently working as a Digital Marketer at Loud & Clear Creative. She is a creative, adaptable, results-driven digital marketing coordinator with a passion for technology, innovation and continued learning.
Vikki Ong
Illustrator
Melbourne based Illustrator, Animator and Designer with a passion for colour, character concepts, movement and storytelling. I'm here to learn all I can and create something meaningful.
Melissa Orr
UX Designer
Melissa is currently working as a UX Designer at webdesign.bar. She is an Experience Designer with a background in design, small business and disability care. She designs to make life simpler and better for people. Melissa enjoys solving problems, big and small. To identify and solve important UX problems in short timeframes, she likes to work within open-minded, agile teams. She believes great results come from happy, fast-paced environments. She is a lover of the outdoors but obsessively spends her time reading, researching, designing and testing.
Kristy Ouwerkerk
Founder
Kristy is the Founder of Veilability. She is an experienced digital entrepreneur with a passion for driving innovation and a transformative user experience in the wedding industry. Not only for engaged couples but for the thousands of wedding businesses in the marketplace. For the last 15 years she has been focused on the commercialisation of a series of online wedding applications, purpose built to address specific deficiencies in the marketplace. In particular, slow and manual wedding planning processes and the provision of relevant, curated and engaging content. She loves being a voice for this industry and is excited about the change she is likely to see over the next few years and beyond.
Keira Owens
IT Helpdesk Officer
I am a Bachelor of IT student at USQ and recently got my first IT job as a helpdesk support officer where I provide support for both hardware and our in-house software. In my spare time I am writing and developing a game about a topic close to my heart: mental health.
Arely Padilla
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i love hacking and anything that involves technology, i also love nature and being outside, and doing sports
Stephanie Pagano
Product Owner
Stephanie is a Product Owner at MYER. She has an incredible work ethic and produces high quality work. Her attention to detail in terms of visual merchandising is evident with the presentation of the MYER website. She plays the crucial role of co-coordinating any marketing/promotional activity, liaising with Marketing, Online, SEO and Digital teams. As well as this, Stephanie provides endless support to the Online Merchandise team, utilizing her extensive knowledge in online content management systems to provide guidance and direction to the team. She describes herself as a travel fanatic whenever she has some free time.
Asaia Palacios
Software Engineer Student
Software engineer student at Holberton School. Beginning is the adventure. Tech + Social Innovation + Impact = Awesomeness. A Latina discovering: Virtual Reality, Make Culture, & Raspberry Pi.
Tara Palmer
Technologist
Tara started her career in post production support and it has led her to some great opportunities, both in Australia and abroad. These opportunities have allowed her skill set to diversify in many different areas of broadcast production. From idea conceptualization right through budgeting and production to delivery and archive. She specializes in working with new production technology and developing new workflow techniques for productions to head towards a more efficient and cost effective process. She has a strong passion for all aspects of production and post production and loves pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with ideas and kit.
Caroline Parisy
Head of HR
Years of experience working with emergent technologies, I am responsible for the development and implementation of all HR and organisational strategy and initiatives to support the business strategy. Working for the benefits of IE’s best assets, its people, and making sure that everyone enjoy their work! I have a specific interest in employees engagement and the latest HR technologies, to empower businesses and employees with the right tools, efficient communication systems, professional growth and decisions making processes.