User:Helen Gao

Helen Gao has worked in the field of information security since 1991. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP. Her specialties include software architecture, project management and application development. Her experiences are with financial institution, market research company, high-tech device manufacturer and software vendor.

Helen is currently Sr. Software Architect of TIBCO Software. She designs and develops complex software that transfers confidential data. The protection of information security in such systems is challenging, due to their strict performance requirements of high event throughput and low processing latency. Helen welcomes the challenge and uses the knowledge she obtained from OWASP to manage project life cycles.

Helen is the OWASP Security Person of the Year of 2012

Helen has taught mathematics, physics and computer science at colleges in both United States and China.

Helen graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in China. She continued her studies of physics and computer science in the United States. Helen holds master's degrees in both physics and computer science.

Besides volunteering for OWASP, she has also served as the president of Sun Yat-sen University Alumni Association. Helen help founded the Long Island School of Chinese, a Huaxia Chinese School.

Helen's contribution to OWASP includes the following:


 * 1) Volunteer of the Women in Security program of AppSec USA 2013.
 * 2) Volunteer of the Academic Outreach program of AppSec USA 2013.
 * 3) Founder and leader of the Long Island Chapter - Found the chapter in 2006. Organize at least 6 chapter meetings annually.
 * 4) Global Membership Committee Chair from 2011 to 2012 - Revised membership model; Recruited 2 organization members, 2 educational members and many individual members in US and Asia Pacific regions.
 * 5) AppSec China 2010, 2011 Overseas Chair
 * 6) Leader of the OWASP Chinese Project - Designed project road map, recruited volunteers, selected and translated material.
 * 7) Global Conference Committee Contributor from 2010 to 2012.
 * 8) Global Chapter Committee Contributor - Helped revising the new chapter handbook in 2011. Participated in OWASP leaders workshops.
 * 9) OWASP Governance Task Force - Helped revising OWASP by-laws in 2011
 * 10) OWASP Newsletter - Contributed and translated the newsletters since 2010.
 * 11) Representative of OWASP China Chapter - Facilitate corporation among local chapters in greater China and the OWASP Foundation

[mailto:helen.gao@owasp.org Email and Google Talk address].