Cecil is Team Cymru’s Training Practice Manager. Based in Sydney Australia, Cecil is responsible for the development and implementation of Team Cymru’s training program with particular emphasis on the developing world. In this respect Cecil has delivered training extensively throughout Asia and Africa and is currently working on a major security training initiative for Africa, the Africa Training Initiative (ATI) in conjunction with regional partners.
Cecil was previously the Training Manager at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region and before that was a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology, focusing particularly on internetworking subjects.
He has been involved in Internet training and support from the initial AARNET (Internet) days in Australia and co-authored the first guide to using the Internet in Australia, “Getting the Most out of AARNet”.
He has strong passions about keeping the Internet safe, free and working as well as strengthening its accessibility and usability in the developing world.
Cecil was born in Johannesburg and it is a great pleasure for him now to be back here to participate in iWeek
