Personal Information

Full Name: Penelope Judith Wyatt

Nationality: Australian

Location: Sydney, Australia

Professional Experience

Education

2001 - 2004

Bachelor of Science in Computing Science, Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice. Completed with First Class Honours.

1988 - 2000

Higher School Certificate 2000:

Studied 2 Unit English, 2 Unit Mathematics, 3 Unit Science, 3 Unit Computing Studies and 2 Unit Music.

Received a UAI of 98.10.

Community Activities

Worked as a volunteer campanologist (church bell ringer) since 1996. Was captain of the Christ Church St Laurence bell ringers between 2003-2005.

Performed with Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in December 1999-2003.

Have been active in the Tournament of the Minds for eight years - five years as a team member, one year as an assistant team facilitator, and two years as a judge.

Skills

Experienced with using and maintaining Windows, Unix, Linux, Amiga and Macintosh (OS 9 and X) systems.

Highly skilled with software development using C++, C#, Microsoft Visual BASIC (6 and .Net), MS Access, JavaScript/DHTML, Java and Cocoa. Moderately skilled in the use of C, PHP, Python, Eiffel, and SQL/MySQL.

Some experience with both the Waterfall and Extreme Programming software development methods.

Well-developed team skills are displayed through:

• Experience with Systems Design and Development, a university subject completed with a final mark of 98%, where a piece of software is developed by a team of ten students.
• Experience with Extreme Programming, in which strong team skills are absolutely necessary, as all programming is performed in pairs, swapped frequently.
• Extensive participation in the Tournament of the Minds, a strongly team-based competition.
• Six years of participation in bellringing activities, where every piece of ringing is performed by a band of 6-12 ringers, requiring very strong teamwork and cooperation skills.

Hobbies

Programming,

Aviation (holder of an Australian private pilot's licence),

Bell-ringing - an active member of a diverse and eccentric society of change-ringers.

Awards Received

May 2003: Awarded a full scholarship to attend the Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Francisco, America.

April 2002: Awarded a full scholarship to attend the Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Jose, America.

September 2001: Attended and spoke at an Apple University Consortium conference in Townsville.

July 2001: Received a Seeding Grant from the Apple University Consortium. This involves a grant of an iMac, on the condition that it will be used for the purposes of software development on a nominated project.

June 2001: Received an Australian Students' Prize for Excellence.

February 2001: Received the Premier's Award for Excellence in the Higher School Certificate, for placing 1st in NSW in 3 Unit Computing.

University Results