After being a participant at both the National Youth Science Forum and the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, I was an active Rotaractor for 10 years.
During that time, I held every position at club and district level, including a term on the International Rotaract Committee, advising the RI Board on matters relating to Rotaract. In 2003 I founded Rotaract’s biggest online community, RotaractNet, and was the first Rotaractor to serve on the board of Rotarians on the Internet. I continued providing training resources for Rotaract for several years after I moved on into Rotary.
I joined Rotary after “ageing out” of Rotaract in 2008, becoming a charter member of the first innovative Rotary Club in District 9455. I served as the club’s 2nd President, after which I served two terms as an Assistant Governor and one term as District Membership Chair.
As a web developer who specialises in online communities and social networking, I have dedicated over 20 years to help advance Rotary into the digital age. I founded the Rotarians on Social Networks Fellowship in 2009, which I was heavily involved with until resigning from it in 2015, and regularly provided training on using the internet to further Rotary service, fellowship and communication around the world.
I was both a member of the International Organizing Committee and Promotions Committee for the 2014 Rotary International Convention in Sydney (#ricon14).
Family and work commitments (and general burn out!) have seen me prioritise and reduce my Rotary commitments from 2015, pulling back and choosing to focus at the club level again for now.
See my full Rotary CV and Rotaract CV, and Awards and Recognitions.
Club Membership
- Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay (Charter Member), District 9455,
- Active Member Dec 2008 – Oct 2014
- Honorary Member (and the web master) Oct 2014 – Dec 2016
- Transferred back as an Active Member Jan 2017 – Present
- Rotary E-Club of New England, District 7930, Oct 2014 – Dec 2016
- Rotaract Club of South Perth, District 9470, Mar 2000 – Jun 2008
- Rotaract Club of Subiaco, District 9450, Aug 1998 – Feb 2000
Other Rotary Program involvement
- Attended New Zealand Science Summer School (now NYSF) – 1993
- Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Kelmscott, District 9470
- RYLA Awardee – 1996
- Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mill Point, District 9470
- Handicamp Buddy – 2000
- Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mill Point, District 9470