The record

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ClaimEvidence
AWS Community Hero, Summer 2015 (Amazon-conferred)The announcement, Jeff Barr, AWS Blog, 30 Jul 2015 · Archived copy
Author, Amazon Web Services: Migrating Your .NET Enterprise Application (Packt, 2011, 336pp)Amazon · Packt · Google Books
National iAward 2013, Best IT Toolset, for Podzy (ahead of Fujitsu and CSIRO)Contemporary account, Aug 2013
Australian iAwards 2010 and Asia-Pacific APICTA awards, LogicalTech SysTalk (co-founder and CTO)InfoQ interview bio, Sep 2011
Founder, Australia's first AWS user group (July 2011, now the country's oldest and the 8th oldest worldwide)The group's own history · Founding attribution in the Barr post
Founder, SureDrop (as Podzy): acquihired by Senetas 2015, acquisition completed February 2017Senetas on SureDrop · Completion record
SureDrop distributed globally by ThalesThales CPL product brief
US provisional patent applications, sole inventor (filed 28 July and 5 August 2026)

Patent pending. Provisional applications are not published by the USPTO, so there is deliberately no link here, and no description of the mechanism.

Past Vice President, Australian Oracle Users GroupInfoQ bio, Sep 2011

The 2011 interview also records an ISO 27001 auditor certification. It has since lapsed, so it is not claimed as current.

Speaker, AISA AdelaideSEC 2025 (Adelaide, 22 August 2025)AdelaideSEC speakers page · AISA event record
Identity proofs: this site, GitHub and X are cryptographically linkedKeybase proofs
Australian land-speed record, 350 M-CG class, 78.119 mph, Lake Gairdner, 2023Dry Lakes Racers Australia records

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