Richard is a 30 year veteran of the ICT industry starting at the Commonwealth bank and was a 10-year IT director from 2010 at a mining company with gold and diamond projects in Australia, Laos and Canada.
He consulted and trained cyber security in SE Asia to governments and critical infrastructure enterprises on missions for Dept of Foreign Affairs and with RMIT University, where he now teaches cyber security.
Richard recently completed his IRAP course and exam (pending endorsement).
He was an executive committee and secretary at the Australia Computer Society until 2022 and chairperson of Cloud Branch at AISA.