Richard is a 30-year ICT veteran starting his career in mainframes with the Commonwealth Bank, then onto other markets from SME to large clients in shipping, mining, and heavy industries. He became IT director in 2010 in a mining company with uranium, gold and diamond projects in Outback Australia, Laos, and Canada. He founded his IT consulting company in 1999 and currently work with two large Telcos and several Federal Government agencies.
He is a hands-on tech with a philosophy to never separate Cyber Security from Information Technology.
Richard studied Accounting and IT at Swinburne University and Cyber Security at Box Hill Institute. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with ISACA and a Certified Professional in Cyber Security with Australian Computer Society.
He was in national congress and an executive committee member at the Australia Computer Society until 2020 and is the deputy chair Cloud branch at the Australia Information Security Association.
