Rebecca is fastidious and particular, and that’s not just her taste in shoes.

During her career in IT, both within and outside of the legal sector, Rebecca is known for her incessant note taking and documentation, continual questions and probing for information.  She has a flair for getting up to speed with projects incredibly quickly, and in a short period of time you’ll feel you’ve known her for years.  In a good way of course!

After working more than 10 years in inhouse legal IT and having ‘been there and done that’ with all the usual IT projects, Rebecca decided it was time to share her combined 22 years of IT skills and knowledge with the broader community.

With this plethora of experience, she’s like a Minolo Blahnik on a Hollywood starlet – a perfect fit that doesn’t look too bad either.

What she has done

Rebecca has been involved in some of the most exciting and challenging projects during her IT career.

Working her way up the ranks of the IT ladder from Helpdesk, Systems Administrator to IT Director, Rebecca has seen it all when it comes to the typical legal IT environment.

Some of the highlights from Rebecca’s career include:

• Managing and technically leading a migration from Docs Open 3.9.5 to Worksite 8.2
• Procurement and implementation of Thomsons 3E legal practice management system, migrating from Locus Integrity
• Project manage and design the creation of a LIXI based integration for receiving client instructions via XML web services and equivalent backchannel messaging
• Developing a document production process using consumed XML web service data from a privately hosted system
• Project management of two key systems the Australian Catholic University – an ePortfolio personal learning environment for students, and a Spatial Information System for the Properties Directorate
• Upgrading from DOCS Open to WorkSite, focusing on deployment and configuration of software, updating custom templates and applications, and creating coexistence strategies
• SOE and software packaging as part of a national AD integration

What she is doing now

Rebecca is running a few Office 2010 projects at the moment, helping our clients to, not just upgrade, but take advantage of and promote the new features in this version.  Having upgraded Office many times over the years, she’s learnt a few tricks along the way which she’s happily passing on to our client base.  She’s fascinated by the new ribbon environment in 2010, and is often found cheerfully passing her days building ribbon versions of clients’ clunky toolbars.

She’s also heavily involved with building an intranet knowledge portal that combines data from multiple internal systems and presents in a simple to use web interface.

What else she’s working on

Mosmar is currently in the design phase of a workflow and document automation system (codename Strudel).  Rebecca is currently heavily involved in the specification and design of this system, and is excited about starting some serious work on this project.

She is enthusiastic about improving processes wherever they can be found, and this project is just one of many that brings that passion to the surface.