Welcome to WIT Melbourne

WIT was founded in March 1997 by Jenny Barbour, Madeleine Sanders and Susan Coleman. From 2006 Jenny and Madeleine continue to organise the group as a whole and in particular the Melbourne branch.

Jenny BarbourJenny Barbour
Director
Jenny Barbour & Associates I.T. Recruitment
jenny@jennybarbour.com.au phone (03) 9821 5606

Jenny Barbour is the Director of Jenny Barbour & Associates Pty Ltd and Cofounder of the Women are IT network. 

20 years of experience within the IT industry encompassing Resource Management, Resource Solutions and IT Recruitment has established Jenny’s expertise.

As the creator of Jenny Barbour & Associates Pty Ltd; an IT recruitment company that has a single focus ‘to raise the benchmark for IT recruitment within Australia’ Jenny is determinedly addressing her passion ‘The cost of Human Capital’ and more importantly ‘The cost of getting IT wrong’.

In January 1997 Jenny co-founded the Women are IT (WIT) network with the vision to create an organisation providing a framework upon which women in Information Technology could extend their network and expand their knowledge in an environment that encourages open conversation and debate.  She believes that the creation of the WIT network has provided a structured framework now reaching a greater breadth of women in ICT.  Jenny Barbour has an established background creating awareness within the industry and education sectors alike in an attempt to address the rapidly advancing ICT skills shortage within Australia.

·        Cofounder Women are I.T – www.witwomen.org.au

·        Founding Board Member for – AWISE  (Australian Women in IT and Science Entity)  www.awise.org.au

·        Board Member for the VicWomeninICTNetwork – www.vicictforwomen.com.au

 

Madeleine Sanders
Resource Operations Manager
IBM GSA
madesand@au1.ibm.com

Madeleine Sanders is a Resource Operations Manager in Strategic Outsourcing in IBM GSA.

She has over thirty years in the I.T. Industry where she initially commenced as an IBM computer operator, progressed though systems programming, applications development, project management and business unit management.

During her career, she worked for over 14 years in Europe, Africa, America and Asia. The companies she has worked for are National Mutual, the Stock Exchange, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Xerox, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Digital (assigned to TAB and BP) and Praxa.

She joined IBM GSA in September 1997.

·        Cofounder Women are I.T – www.witwomen.org.au

·        Founding Board Member for – AWISE  (Australian Women in IT and Science Entity)  www.awise.org.au

 

 

 


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