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Chris Payne

Group Development Manager, IT

John Fairfax Holdings Ltd

Chris has been working with IT and software development in the publishing industry since 1979. He is currently the Group Software Development Manager with John Fairfax Holdings Ltd, publishers of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Melbourne AGE and the Australian Financial Review.

Chris's technical career commenced with programming in Assembler and Pascal on PDP-11's. He now manages a team of software developers who support and enhance Fairfax's business systems including E-Commerce systems, Financial systems, Circulation-Distribution and Subscription systems, and Classified and Display Advertising systems.

In 1999 Chris published and presented a joint paper at the ACIS conference in Wellington, NZ. The subject of the paper was the paradigm shift in the advertising segment of the newspaper publishing industry due to the impact of the Internet.

Chris has a Master of Science (Computing) from UTS and now lectures part-time at UTS on subjects associated with Global Information Systems and Internet Evolution.

cpayne@fairfax.com.au

www.Fairfax.com.au 

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