User:Nwhysel

==Noreen Whysel==

nwhysel@owasp.org

Skype: nwhysel (best times between 10AM and 3PM Eastern time)

Twitter: @nwhysel

Noreen was the Community Manager for the OWASP Foundation from November 2014 until April 2016. She is currently the Information Lead for the OWASP Learning Gateway Project and a chapter leader for OWASP Brooklyn.

She has a strong background in nonprofit technology management, user experience, open source community management and mentoring. She has created mentoring programs for the Information Architecture Institute, Columbia University and the IA Institute and currently serves as a mentor with OWASP and the NYC User Experience Professionals Association. She is the Chief of Operations for [http://www.decisionfish.com Decision Fish[, a financial wellness application. Prior to that she served as a user experience consultant to the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group developing user experience testing procedures for the IDEF Registry, which was created to fulfill the a White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identity in Cyberspace. She served for many years as the Operations Manager at the Information Architecture Institute and as a technology management and web design consultant. Earlier in her career she spent five years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as Operations Manager for their global website team. Prior to the merger, she served seven years at Price Waterhouse as a real estate research associate, specializing in real estate information technology, geographic information systems and intranet development.

She serves in many advisory and working group roles including the Board of Directors of GISMO-the NYC regional chapter of the NY State GIS Association, Advisor to Technology Transfer Days and Open Camps, including the Unite for Humanity Hackathon at the UN, the User Experience Committee of the ID EcoSystem Working Group, and the myMETRO Advisory Council of the Metropolitan New York Library Council. She hosts local events for the Information Architecture and Semiotics Web Meetup Groups and is an organizer for the Behavioral Economics NYC Meetup.. She holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute and has a BA in Psychology from Columbia University.

Noreen lives in New York City.