KALAMUNDA resident and Curtin University of Technology internet security expert Dr Helen Armstrong was the first woman to win the WA Achiever Award at the recent WA Technology and Telecommunications Awards.
Dr Armstrong has raised the State’s technology profile through international recognition of her research.
“I was only notified that I had been nominated a day before the award ceremony and I was surprised to hear that I had won — it really came out of left field,” she said.
“I’m honoured to have been considered for this prestigious award and delighted to be the recipient.”
Dr Armstrong is currently on study leave, working at the US Military Academy at West Point in New York State.
She has several other areas of interest and research including teaching methods for the vision impaired.
She was instrumental in the establishment of the first Cisco Academy for the Vision Impaired in the world.
She has worked with the Association for the Blind WA, Cisco Systems and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.