Based in Brisbane, Australia and with over 15 years experience in the management & architecture of identity & security system platforms, a passion for fixing things and a stubbornness to push people to get the basics RIGHT, Jess wears the title of SecOps Witch proudly! Chances are if you've run into "girlgerms" online, you've spoken to Jess. Having spoken at Ignite Australia in 2015, she was bitten by the public-speaking bug and has spoken again at both Ignite New Zealand and Ignite Australia for 2016 & 2017, as well as more local cons such as CrikeyCon and DDDBrisbane. After taking a year of maternity leave, she made the jump to the corporate world. Jess is now a Customer Engineer with Microsoft, where she spends most of her days presenting to customers - just as if she was on stage at a con. In her downtime, Jess spends far too many hours playing video games & with Lego.