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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

Certified project manager (PMP). Former IBM mainframe systems programmer. Drupal contributor. Freelance website developer.

Robin Wilensky is a technologist who has worked at various technology vendors for over 13 years. She is currently a senior systems engineer at Sun Microsystems covering downtown NYC and specializes in software and desktop technologies. She is also the team lead for the Web 2.0 initiative for her area. Prior to Sun, Robin was a systems engineer at Netscape Communications during the Web 1.0 era. She began her career as a technical support specialist for Information Builders, Inc.
Patricia Mayo has ghostwritten countless search engine optimized articles, copy for websites, ebooks, and ever so infamous five page sales letters. As “Miche” Patricia problogged at Audeamus for Creative Weblogging, which snagged a front page on The Issue and was named a top Social Entrepreneurship blog a few times.
I've been running Katipo Communications for over 10 years. In that time we've ranged in size but are usually 7-10 people. We are a team that works from home developing websites and open source software.
We built Koha - the worlds first Open Source Library System in 1999-2000. Our latest OS project is Kete, a collaborative digital archiving system.