One-On-One Presenters
One-on-one-sessions
A great innovation this year is the introduction of one-on-one sessions with key Squiz personnel representing the different business units across the company. These sessions can be pre-booked and present the perfect opportunity for you to take advantage of best practice and thought leadership in the web environment. Squiz is committed to providing the best outcomes all year round and would be pleased to add value to your existing MySource Matrix implementation through these sessions.
Micky Gough, National Support Manager
Micky Gough has been a part of the Squiz Support team for three years. Prior to that he has worked as an IT service desk coordinator, systems administrator, web application developer, TAFE teacher and church minister. Micky's focus is primarily in the Systems Administration support area, but he also actively troubleshoots Matrix implementation issues and comes up with occasional bugfixes.
David Hawking, Chief scientist at Funnelback
Dr David Hawking is Chief Scientist at Funnelback Pty Ltd and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. David has been researching in the area of information retrieval since 1991, focusing on web and enterprise search. He led the CSIRO research program which resulted in the Funnelback technology and the successful spinoff in December 2005. David is a regular speaker at industry and academic events both in Australia and internationally. Details of his many scientific publications are at http://david-hawking.net/.
Casey Farrell, Implementation Specialist
Casey Farrell is a Senior Implementation Specialist and Technical Trainer at the Hobart Squiz office and has worked on many high profile projects. He has worked as lead implementer for the Discover Tasmania website and lead implementer and user experience designer for the University of Tasmania Control Panel editing interface. Casey has also authored Squiz’s MySource Matrix Calendar course and co-authored the Web Statistics and Analytics course.
Nathan Callahan, Technical Consultant
Working mostly in implementation and development areas before joining Squiz, Nathan has been a Linux user since 1998. He has taken his Linux hobby and joined the Sysadmin Support team. Nathan has a very broad knowledge of how Matrix works and how it is deployed, solving problems from the operating system level to the implementation level, with contributions to the Matrix core codebase in-between. More recently, Nathan has been returning to his coding roots, heading up a small team within Support to take some of the load off Squiz Labs and let them get on with developing MySource 4.
Greg Sherwood, Product Development Manager
Greg Sherwood is the Product Development Manager at Squiz Labs where he manages the MySource Matrix and MySource Mini development teams. Greg started at Squiz in 2001 and was part of the original MySource Matrix development team where he served as lead architect and developer. These days, he spends most of his time working on architecture and interface planning for MySource Mini and working towards MySource version 4. Greg is also a keen supporter of coding standards and quality assurance and is recognised in the PHP community as author of PHP_CodeSniffer,a key part of the standard PHP QA toolset.
Daniel Nitsche, Technical Consultant at Funnelback
Daniel Nitsche is a Technical Consultant at Funnelback and the author of Matrix Secrets: the straight-forward guide to getting the most out of MySource Matrix (matrixsecrets.com). Daniel was previously a Senior Implementation Specialist at Squiz, and worked on some of the largest and most complex Matrix implementations. Daniel is across almost everything Funnelback and Matrix, having worked with both products extensively.
Deborah Sherwood, Usabiity Experience Analyst
Deborah Sherwood joined Squiz in 2006 as a trainer and technical writer for MySource Matrix. Once the development of MySource Mini was in full swing, she joined the team to write the help articles that are available to all MySource Mini users via the context-sensitive help system. With a background in software development and testing, Deborah has since turned her attention towards unit testing and usability testing for MySource Mini.
MySource Mini is the new Content Management System from Squiz. As part of the ongoing development of this product, we are inviting conference attendees to get involved in our usability testing program. This testing would see you attempting various scenarios using MySource Mini so that we can gather information about how you interact with the product and work to improve the less intuitive areas. You will be recorded while completing the scenarios so that we can analyse the data in depth at a later stage.
So if you want to have some input into Squiz products, get involved in product design or you just want to have a closer look at MySource Mini, book yourself in for a usability session at the conference. Places are limited, so be quick.
Damien Quintal, Technical Consultant
Damien began his career at Squiz in December 2006 within the Sydney implementation team. With his front-end coding background in hand, Damien was soon made a Technical Account Manager and began supporting some of larger more complex Squiz accounts. Now a Technical Consultant, Damien has been the brains trust behind a number of highly technical, high-profile projects and is seen as the go-to person for anything Matrix by his peers.
Brett Mason, Funnelback Managing Director
Brett started working with the Funnelback technology as a software developer at CSIRO 2002. Since then he has carried out many successful customer implementations in both the government and private sectors, contributed to a scientific paper on document level security and invented the Fluster Clustering engine. He has also written whitepapers on database search and design principles for effective search implementation. As a founding member of the Funnelback spin-off team, Brett initially led the Products and Services team before going on to a broader management role.
