Board
TechCommNZ Executive
Katie Haggath
President
When Katie first went to university, she thought she wanted to be a vet. Thankfully she came to her senses, and studied English, Media, and Communications instead. Then Katie found technical communication when she was a student workplace volunteer, and she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. She’s still waiting for that last bit to happen.
Katie worked as a freelance writer and English tutor before joining TechCommNZ in 2016. She never lost her passion for volunteering, and formalised TechCommNZs Student Outreach Programme early this year. Since then, the Student Outreach Programme has presented to over 600 students in three cities. Going forward, Katie will be looking to build on these strong foundations by facilitating work experience and internship opportunities for students.
When Katie is not volunteering her time to TechCommNZ, or investing it in her own business, she likes writing, walking, riding, and all things fur and fowl except turkeys. They sense fear.
Meredith Evans
Vice-President
Meredith completed a Graduate Diploma in Technical Communication in 2002 and has been working in technical communications ever since, first at Streamliners and now at Synlait Milk. Meredith has a passion for software. She has a particular interest in creating user documentation for information technology, especially ERP systems, and in working on content strategy and solutions. Meredith has also dabbled in training and e-Learning content development and has recently been having fun producing e-Learning with Articulate Storyline. When not at work or wrangling two young boys, Meredith can be found at dog agility competitions, either chasing her own dogs around the course or standing in the middle as the judge.
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Emma Reynolds
Secretary
Earnsy Liu
Honorary Treasurer
Earnsy (rhymes with Guernsey) successfully completed the GDID (Graduate Diploma in Information Design, Ara) in 2017. She is interested in many aspects of information design and is partial to flat whites.
Roy McKone
Business Manager
Roy has been a self employed technical communicator since the beginning of 1998. Prior to this he has had substantial experience in the IT industry in management, sales, solution design, software development and technical roles. During his career Roy also had to develop a wide range of documentation from technical through to sales proposals.
Combining these various skills and experiences with formal training in Information Mapping, Roy has since been involved in a number of major documentation projects with IBM, Vodafone, Placemakers, to name but a few. Roy is now retired and based in Tauranga.
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Peter Nock
Board Member
Peter is currently the Ara Manager of Computing for Free community learning centres. In his previous role as an Academic Team Leader, he was looking for the "next step" in his career and discovered the GDID programme at CPIT. Having experience in writing educational materials, course books and project planning he found the programme rewarding and useful. While not working in the technical writing industry, the skills and knowledge gained in the GDID programme have proved immensely useful and applicable in his current management role. As a GDID student he joined up with TechCommNZ and attended the 2012 conference - and somehow found himself on the board...
Megan Bennett
Board Member
Noel Anderton
Board Member
Steph Prince
Board Member
Steph graduated from Massey University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Media Studies. She went on to complete a Diploma in Editing, Proofreading and Book Publishing with the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies.
For the last eight years Steph has worked in writing and publishing roles in the transport industry, championing the importance of plain language, writing style and branding across her organisation’s communications.
In 2017, Steph won the Plain English Champion – Best Individual award at the New Zealand Plain English Awards. She knows she’s found her niche.
Outside of work hours, Steph enjoys badminton (surprisingly exhausting), bootcamp-style fitness classes (expectedly exhausting), trying to improve her gluten-free baking skills (emotionally exhausting) and spending time with her niblings. She’s a big fan of a chat about space.
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