User information

Name:	Barbie
City:	Birmingham
Country:	United Kingdom
Perl mongers group:	Birmingham.pm
Company:	MessageLabs
Web page:	http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk
Pause id:	BARBIE
Perlmonks id:	barbie
Talks	‎Using Phrasebooks - A Design Pattern‎ (20 minutes) ‎Selenium - An Introduction to Web Testing‎ (20 minutes)
Bio	English Founder, Leader and Director of Birmingham Perl Mongers, a CPAN Author, a professional lighting engineer and general roadie, a father of 2 and a player of games. Began coding Perl in 1999, using it for a variety of applications. Currently promotes CPAN Testers and works on the supporting toolchain to provide the statistics and help for testers. A speaker at several international technical conferences and workshops, together with presentations to numerous Perl and Linux user groups. Employed as a QA Automation Specialist by MessageLabs, and get paid to write Perl test suites. Currently working on performance and regression test suites for our anti-malware software. Also an organiser for the 2006 YAPC::Europe Perl Conference in Birmingham, UK, and now a member of the YAPC::Europe Foundation Venue Committee.
Other Act conferences:	YAPC::Europe 2008 YAPC::NA 2008 London Perl Workshop 2007 YAPC::NA 2007 YAPC::EU::2005 YAPC::Europe 2003
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