[Home] [Databases] [Search] [WorldLII] [Feedback] [Help]	Related Links
	Personnel	Publications by Staff Contacting AustLII
You are here: AustLII >> About AustLII >> Personnel

Personnel - Who's Who at AustLII

• Management - Andrew Mowbray, Graham Greenleaf, Philip Chung
• Staff - Mark Di Nicola, Ben Hayes, Sean McCarthy, Annelies Moens, Jones Olatunji, Catherine Quigley, Joni Sham, Kent Soesanto, Trevor Roydhouse, Michael Tan, Rajan Sharma, David Vaile Reza Vatandoust and Armin Wittfoth
• Former Staff

Management

		Andrew Mowbray (Co-Director) Professor of Law and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Email: andrew@austlii.edu.au   Tel: (02) 9514 4921 Home Page: http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~andrew/. (Co-Director since January 1995) Andrew is the principal software author and technical director of AustLII. He has degrees in Computing Science and Law. He wrote the sino search engine, the hypertext markup software, and the ysh inferencing engine. Pre-AustLII, Andrew wrote the DataLex Workstation Software, the AIRS free text retrieval engine and the LES legal expert system shell. He teaches and publishes in computerised legal research, computerisation of law and information technology law.
		Graham Greenleaf (Co-Director) Professor of Law, University of New South Wales Email: graham@austlii.edu.au   Tel: (02) 9514 4921 Home Page: http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~graham/. (Co-Director since January 1995) Graham has joint responsibility for the overall development and direction of AustLII and WorldLII. He has general responsibility for AustLII's funding, obtaining new data sources, and the WorldLII / Project DIAL facilities. He has degrees in Arts and Law, and is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He has researched and taught in the areas of intellectual property, privacy, cyberspace law and computerisation of law since 1982.
		Philip Chung (Executive Director) Lecturer in Law, UTS Email: philip@austlii.edu.au   Tel: (02) 9514 4921 (Appointed 26 February 1996; Executive Director since 1999) Philip is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney, with a major in Computer Science. Philip manages the staff and resources of AustLII and jointly oversees the technical development of AustLII's projects and system administration. In addition to his responsibilities as AustLII's Executive Director Philip manages our primary legal materials, and has developed all of our facilities to automate the receipt and processing of cases and other materials. Philip lectures in computerised legal research at UTS. He is experienced in large scale legal publishing on the Internet, computerised legal research, computer legal applications and automated text processing.

Staff

		Catherine Quigley (Administrator) Email: cathy@austlii.edu.au (Appointed 12 January 1998) Cathy is responsible for keeping everyone organised and making sure that the finances and administration of AustLII are in good working order. Her duties include budget preparation and monitoring; maintaining office accounts; office administration; liaising with UTS and UNSW faculties; handling enquiries and assisting with promotional activities and conferences.
		Armin Wittfoth (Project Officer, Primary Materials) Email: armin@austlii.edu.au (Appointed 26 March 2001) Armin has degrees in Science, Arts and Laws from Sydney University.  He was also awarded Diploma in Mainframe Programming by a joint venture of TAFE and IBM. Armin is currently working on AustLII's primary legal materials, as well as on AustLII's project to automate improvements to the authority and interactivity of primary legal materials. His duties also include converting data for publication on the Internet, maintaining and updating databases of primary legal materials including the NSW, Queensland, Victorian and Northern Territory legislation databases.
		Jones Olatunji (System Administrator) Email: jones@austlii.edu.au (Appointed 4 December 2001) Jones is a graduate of Electrical Engineering from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and holds a Masters degree in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Wollongong. Jones is, with Philip Chung, jointly responsible for AustLII's system administration. His duties include administering servers running email, web pages, databases, firewalls and other applications; configuration, optimisation, maintenance and troubleshooting of hardware and software; backup and recovery of data; and site security.
		Trevor Roydhouse (System Developer) (Appointed 21 July 2003) Trevor holds BJuris, LLB and LLM degrees from the University of New South Wales. He previously worked for the law publisher CCH Australia Limited where he held the positions of Editor, Senior Editor, Senior Analyst, Electronic Product Developer and IT Consultant during his 20 year career with the company. Trevor works on AustLII's primary legal materials including the Commonwealth, ACT, Northern Territory, South Australian, Tasmanian, Victorian and WA legislation databases, all Bills and explanatory notes databases, the Australian Treaties Library and on the AustLII Toolbar. He maintains AustLII's comprehensive online help and is also responsible for managing the AustLII Feedback system.
		David Vaile (External Relations Officer) Tel: (02) 9385 3589 Email: david.vaile@austlii.edu.au (Appointed February 2005) David holds a Law degree and Arts degree (History and Philosophy of Science) from UNSW. He is a former practising solicitor (credit and debt and public interest cases with community legal centres), and also a former IT and communications consultant focussing on databases and online collaborative systems for professionals and advocates. He is seconded part time from UNSW, where he also runs the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre.
		Annelies Moens (External Relations Manager) (Appointed 30 June 2008) Annelies manages and builds the relations with AustLII's users and contributors. Annelies has extensive experience in the public and private sectors and previously has managed teams undertaking copyright negotiations, privacy compliance and policy development. Annelies holds an international MBA from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium and Bachelor of Laws (Hons), Science and Arts from the University of Queensland, Australia.
		Michael Tan (Project Officer) (Appointed 4 August 2008) Michael is a third year Science/Law student at the University of New South Wales with a major in Computer Science. His responsibilities include processing data for AustLII's secondary materials databases.
		Kent Soesanto (Project Officer) (Appointed 31 August 2009) Kent holds engineering and science degrees (electrical and computing) from UNSW. He was an assistant administrator in the UTS faculty of Business from 2006-2008. His responsibilities include managing and updating databases for the AsianLII website.
		Rajan Sharma (System Developer) (Appointed 31 August 2009) Rajan holds an MSc in Software Engineering degree from the University of Oxford, and BE (Hons) in Communication Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has over 10 years of international commercial software development experience. His current responsibilities include development, management, and automation of databases on the AsianLII website.
		Reza Vatandoust (Project Officer) (Appointed February 2009)
		Mark Di Nicola (Project Officer) (Appointed 28 September 2009) Mark has over 10 years experience in the IT industry. His current responsibilities include developing and maintaining databases for the International Law Library project. He is currently completing a Graduate Certificate in Systems Development through Charles Sturt University.
		Sean McCarthy (System Developer) (Seconded from Intersect 14 December 2009) Sean is a software engineer with Intersect Australia Ltd, the peak eResearch organisation in NSW. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (Information and Communication Systems) from Macquarie University and has over 12 years experience. His current responsibilities include development of new databases for Victoria on the AustLII website.
		Joni Sham (Project Officer) (Appointed 10 March 2010) Joni is a third year Arts (Media and Communications)/Law student at the University of Sydney. Her responsibilities includes processing data and obtaining permission to republish information for the ANDS project and the International Law Library.
		Ben Hayes (Project Officer) (Appointed 15 March 2010) Ben holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering from UNSW. He has a number of years experience in commercial software development and is currently studying Law - also at UNSW. His responsibilties include processing data for the Legal Scholarship Library and the Victorian model jurisdiction project.

Former Staff