About Dale

Dale is the Website Manager for the Porirua City Council. She also manages the Toastmasters New Zealand website in her spare time, as well as a number of private websites, and two Toastmaster club websites.

On 3 May 2010 Dale received the Supreme Web Award for the best New Zealand Council website at the ALGIM Web Symposium. The first year the award was made, Porirua City Council was 23rd, and the second year, 2009, it was 3rd. At the 2011 ALGIM Web Symposium the PCC website was runner-up in the Supreme Web Award.

Dale is a qualified and experienced IT Trainer, and Webmaster. She has a Diploma in Information Systems (for Business), the Certificate in Tertiary Teaching, and the Certificate in Web Design. Dale is a member of the Office Systems Advisory Committee at Whitireia Community Polytechnic.

She is the mother of two sets of twin boys, and has one grandson and one granddaughter. She is the oldest in her family, with 7 brothers and sisters, and 8 nieces and nephews.

She has an interest in photography, and genealogy, having published 3 family history books and two websites documenting the history of her father's and mother's families.

Dale is also a keen swimmer, and manages to swim at least a kilometre every lunchtime in the local pool, or do five kilometres on the Arena Fitness treadmill. She reckons she has swum the equivalent of Cook Strait at least 6 times in the last two years, and walked from Wellington to Auckland. She completed the More FM Womens Tri - Aquathon event in Wellington in January 2009, as well as the Round the Bays Fun Run, and the Pound the Pavement 10 km walk in Porirua two years running.

Dale also enjoys travelling and visiting new places. She is hoping to do her big OE with her husband Mike sometime before she retires in the next ten years.