| FITT is run by a Steering Committee, a group of volunteers from a variety of organisations. The current members are profiled below. Some also have public profiles on LinkedIn, where FITT has an active group.
The Steering Committee meets at least six times a year to promote various programs and initiatives designed to achieve the objectives of FITT and to support women in the ICT industry.
From time to time the committee has vacancies. If you are interested in being a part of this dynamic group, download a copy of the job description and contact us to apply.
 Maggie Alexander
Maggie runs her own business, M & M Consulting Services which provides consulting and training in business process improvement, including business planning and teamwork development. She works for large and small organisations including health & financial services, educational and technology-based organisations.
Prior to starting her own business, she worked for a multinational computer company in various managerial positions. She also worked for NSW TAFE and the NSW Government in industry development.
She is a foundation member of FITT and has been a member of several private sector boards.
 Tracy Currie
Tracy has been in the telecommunications industry for 20 years and held positions at Senior Executive and Director level.
She is a quick, lateral analytical thinker with strong decision-making and change management skills. Her strong values and communication skills build trust and this facilitates strong relationships with staff, clients, suppliers and the industry.
Management experience includes: Founder and Executive Director of Sirius Telecommunications Ltd, where she undertook various positions throughout the company’s development including: CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, General Management, Operational management, Change management and Project management. Since leaving Sirius in 2006, Tracy has undertaken various consulting roles and the position of COO and CEO at Zamro International.
 Mary Freddolino
Mary grew up in the New York City area. After high school, she was an exchange student in Austria, and then went to Ohio Wesleyan University and studied Accounting and German Studies, spending a semester in Germany. After graduating, she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant implementing internally developed systems. In 2000, she joined Adaytum as a consultant implementing budgeting and forecasting solutions. Adaytum was bought by Cognos in 2003 and Mary transferred with Cognos to Sydney in 2004. In 2006, she joined her last customer, Stockland, where she is responsible for all Cognos applications (Planning, Business Intelligence and Datawarehousing).
 Jenny Donovan
Jenny has worked at UTS for 11 years and for the Faculty of Information Technology for 7 of those years in marketing/promotions roles.
In her current position she concentrates solely on domestic marketing for the faculty’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her role involves: market research and planning; advertising; publications; web; media; public relations; and event management. One of the faculty’s goals is to increase the participation of females in IT courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She sees her involvement in FITT as a way to assist achievement of this goal.
 Vanessa Giannos
Vanessa Giannos, Principal of www.myperformancecoach.com.au is a HR and Human Growth Guru, having developed a wealth of HR, people development and strategic knowledge from her local and global HR experiences over the last 22 years. With phenomenal passion, strong business acumen and strategic skills, Vanessa takes a pragmatic approach with executive teams and has delivered tremendous results building high performance cultures, strong employee engagement, increased profitability and, performance, communication, service excellence, leadership capability, knowledge management and team building.
Vanessa holds a Masters in Human Resources Management, is a senior member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (UK), holds three formal coaching qualifications and is a qualified DiSC & MBTI qualified facilitator. Vanessa is the Principal of My Performance Coach, plays an active role as a Steering Committee member of FITT and leads the Mentoring and Skill development program.
 Erin Guy
Originally from Toronto, Erin Guy has been living in Sydney for the last five years and has been part of the Cliftons Team since her arrival. With a firm operational appreciation of the Clients’ training needs, Erin is now working with leading ICT, Financial and Government organisations, managing their training portfolio across Asia Pacific.
Initially hired on as part of the Sydney Operations Team at Cliftons, Erin was instrumental in ensuring clients has a smooth and consistent roll out of training requirements. Erin then moved over to Sun Microsystems to work in the Sun Learning Centre on its Hardware and Software training requirements across Australia.
Prior to coming over to Sydney, Erin worked for Canada’s largest telecommunications company Rogers Communications working in Marketing and as a Product Manager for one its online products.
Erin thoroughly enjoys working with a variety of different organisations. Meeting people and harnessing relationships is her passion.
 Connie Iong
Connie has worked for more than 14 years with the SAP technology, progressing from project analysis to technical development, functional analysis and people management. During this period she has accumulated strong business knowledge and strategic skills, supplemented by an MBA from MGSM. She currently managse a team of professionals who deliver end-to-end solutions to support the business requirements. Her role includes initiatives such as annual strategic planning, technology roadmaps, business process improvements, enterprise architecture, information delivery, leadership and high performance team development and business engagements at the ‘C’ level.
Conni support's FITT’s mission and would like to participate in encouraging and attracting more women to the ICT workforce.
 Mary Kolotas
Mary has been involved in ICT for 20 years, starting life as a programmer,and business analyst and steadily progressing her career throughout all levels of application development.
Mary has had considerable experience predominately in vendor organisations within the Financial Services industry and has led consulting practices and solution delivery teams. Mary also spent 3 years working in England and Denmark. Most recently, Mary has spent the last six years as a Senior account executive where she has had responsibility for business development of ICT solutions to ‘C’ level staff in major corporates and financial institutions. She has extensive experience in both direct selling and working with alliance partners.
 Conni Marais
Conni started her worklife in IT at a large energy provider in Southern Africa in 1990 and progressed from technical programming roles to working as a Business Analyst in a BA Centre of Excellence at the company.
She relocated to Sydney, Australia in 2002, where she continued working in IT in the educational, tourism and marketing sectors. Conni's current role is as IT Business Partner at a large company in the FMCG sector.
She has been a member of the ACS (Australian Computer Society) and ACS-W the SIG for Women in IT since 2007.
 Alison McDonald
Alison has been involved in the Commercial Software Training, IT and Human Resource areas for 12 years specialising in the technology training space.
In recent years Alison has developed extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of elearning platforms to support large scale technology and process change.
Alison has recently completed a Masters in Human Resources majoring in Training and Development.
 Mary McLeod
Mary is a B2B marketing professional with over 17 years in IT. Mary started initially in technical roles in Adelaide when graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Studies from UniSA, then after working overseas, moved into a more Sales & Marketing capacity when she realised that trying to keep her technical skills up-to-date with the pace of technological change was just not her cup of tea! Companies that Mary has worked for include a variety of vendors and outsourcers including Mitsubishi, CSC, GE Capital, Telelogic, PTC, Infor, KAZ and currently in Marketing Communications at Telstra. After finishing her MBA in Marketing/Technology Management from LaTrobe University, Mary has been involved in various mentoring programs and sees FITT as increasingly important to ensuring that women represent a greater proportion of the IT workforce.
Adina Rotstein
Adina completed a Bachelor of Business Systems at Monash University where she was awarded the Deans Scholarship prize for excellent academic results. This enabled her to work with IBM Australia as part of an Industry Based Learning program with the university.
She continued to study a Master in Applied Information Technology and worked at the University as an Assistant to the Course Lecturer where she taught project management classes, marked exams and assignments and held consultations. She then transferred from Melbourne to Sydney to work at John Fairfax Holdings on a helpdesk where she trained all Sydney-based IT staff on the call logging tool used by the IT department.
Adina was then approached by Nationwide News (division of News Limited) for role as a PC/LAN Analyst and moved quickly into an Applications Specialist role while still in her probationary period. She showed an interest for different projects and moved into the IT Business Services team as a Project Manager to follow her passion for project management.
Kate Stefanov
Kate holds a PhD in Computer Science and currently work at CISRA, Canon Information Systems Research Australia.
She has been around computers since High School and since then involved in various projects ranging from databases and real-time systems to multimedia and small devices. Her PhD work on code compression was completed in 2006. Kate's major research interests lie in programming languages and software systems.
 Kerriann Tyson-Jones
After working at Cliftons for 4 years as a Senior Account Manager managing large IT & Corporate account's and woking with various IT projects, Learning and Training Managers, Kerriann has joined an exciting company, Combined Knowledge Asia Pacific which specialises in the exclusive training on SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The company is considered the leading training provider of SharePoint courses throughout Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia using the Mindsharp course materials. Kerriann is responsible for developing new business, maintaining relationships with our clients and Resellers.
She is passionate about Women in IT and loves being part of FITT to assist women into the ICT industry and help them develop their career and networks through running fantastic events, workshops and menotoring programs. She hopes to see you at one of our upcoming events.
 Rebecca Varidel
Rebecca is proud to work for a fantastic IT team in Sydney based consultancy Servian, providing services that include enterprise architecture, business intelligence, data warehousing, reporting and analytics, applications development and master data management.
She has a wealth of experience in technology, focused on client experience and facilitation. While her current role is Business Development Manager, previous experience in ICT also includes project management, business analysis, and change communications.
Rebecca is also currently rated as a top influencer online in Australia; her latest interest is in the emergence of Twitter as a social media tool.
FITT Ambassadors
FITT Ambassador is an honour FITT ascribes to former FITT Steering Committee members or speakers on behalf of FITT. This honour, instigated in 2005, recognises their commitment to the objectives of FITT and their willingness to speak out about the importance of the women to the ICT industry in Australia.
2005 Ambassadors:
Catherine Rumberg – MD Lucent and co-speaker at International Women's Day 2005
Amanda Lacaze – Highland Partners and co-speaker at International Women's Day 2005
Catherin Bennett – IDC and a retired member of the FITT Steering Committee
Carol Daunt – Director of Learntel and a retired FITT Steering Committee Coordinator
2006 Ambassadors:
Adele Massey - principal consultant for DistinctConnect Pty Ltd, sponsor of recent FITT events.
FITT Life Members
FITT recognises outstanding, long-term commitment to FITT’s objectives by Steering Committee members and work on behalf of women in the ICT industry in Australia with Life Membership.
Ann Dillon – retired, formerly the only female Director on the Board of NCR and a member of the FITT Steering Committee
Leanne Heinke – retired, formerly a long-serving TAFE IT staff member and a member of the FITT Steering Committee
Judy Hammond – retired, formerly a long-serving UTS IT staff member and a member of the FITT Steering Committee
Ann Moffatt – retired, formerly co-founding director of an ICT training provider, the instigator of the FIT network and FITT Steering Committee Co-ordinator
Robyn Woolley - the Institute Women's Strategy Officer, Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE
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