User:Helen Gao

Helen Gao has worked in the field of information security since 1991. Her occupations include application developer, project manager, and software architect. Her employers are financial institution, market research company, high-tech device manufacturer and software company.

Helen is currently a senior architect at TIBCO Software Inc. Her job duties include designing and developing of complex event processing software. The protection of information security in such systems is challenging, due to their strict performance requirements in terms 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 branch of Huaxia Chinese School.

Helen's contribution to OWASP includes the following:


 * 1) Global Membership Committee Chair - In 2011, revised membership model; Recruited 2 organization members, 2 educational members and many individual members in US and Asia Pacific regions.
 * 2) Founder and leader of the Long Island Chapter - The chapter has been active since 2006. Organized at least 4 chapter meetings in 2011.
 * 3) AppSec China 2010, 2011 Overseas Chair - Organized 2 conferences in China in each of the past 2 years
 * 4) Leader of the OWASP Chinese Project - Designed project road map, recruited volunteers, selected and translated material.
 * 5) Global Conference Committee Contributor - Participated in committee meetings since 2010.
 * 6) Global Chapter Committee Contributor - Participated in OWASP leader workshops. Revising the new chapter handbook in 2011.
 * 7) OWASP Governance Task Force - Revised OWASP by-laws in 2011
 * 8) OWASP Newsletter - Contributed and translated the newsletters since 2010.
 * 9) 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].