Our hands-on team includes senior analysts, researchers, editors, writers, designers and experts in usability, accessibility and interface design. We have built strong networks within the government and corporate sectors, and have a reputation for providing innovative, practical solutions.

Parisfirst is led by Chris Sampson.

Chris Sampson - Director
Chris co-founded Parisfirst in 2001. Prior to founding Parisfirst, Chris held the position of eBusiness Director, Government for the Sausage Group responsible for all business development with Government. Chris is a leader in strategic thinking and analysis. Coming from a website management and delivery background of more than 14 years experience, she is a skilled information analyst and market researcher and has an extensive background in technical requirements, specification and web governance.

Melissa Rogerson - Senior Analyst
Melissa has worked in the corporate and government sectors as well as in small business. She has over ten years' experience in organisational information management, metadata development and implementation, website business requirements, web policies and procedures and training. Melissa collects and plays modern European board games. In her spare time, she translates board games from German to English and is a founding member of Boardgames Australia.

Carolyn Foster - Senior content specialist
Carolyn has worked both in-house and freelance in print and online publishing since 1994. She has worked across not-for-profit, independent and multi-national publishing, corporate and government organisations. Carolyn is a communications specialist with formal training and many years experience in writing and editing to high standards across a range of industries. She has particular knowledge and skills in the areas of usability of web content, communications, content strategy and planning and production management of online content.

Meghan Oakley - Information analyst
Meghan is an information analyst with over 10 years experience in the web development industry in programming with Lotus Notes and HTML and has expert skills in usability, accessibility, CSS development and system testing.

Beverly Chan - Business analyst
Beverly has over 10 years experience working in both commercial and Government environments. Beverly has a solid technical background in programming with Lotus Notes and HTML and quality assurance testing to W3C accessibility standards. Beverly has built on this technical grounding by combining strong interpersonal and project management skills with an aptitude in business analysis.

Margaret Lewis
Office administrator, social organiser and all round very helpful person.