Since 2000, I have worked professionally designing, developing and supporting the delivery of digital learning in vocational and higher educational settings.
Making my start as a multimedia developer in vocational education before progressing to an instructional designer role, I worked within a high performing team to produce award-winning digital learning resources for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, The Defence Force School of Signals (DFSS), VET Development Centre, and more.
In 2014, I transitioned to an educational designer role in higher education. Since then I’ve led the design of fully online postgraduate courses and professional development delivered by the university as well as non-award courses and microcredentials with digital education partner FutureLearn.
More recently, a portfolio-driven initiative to rapidly enhance a number of undergraduate award courses has brought about a rapid change of focus and increase of team size – this has enabled me to further hone and incorporate my formal supervisory and leadership skills in my professional practice.
Outside of work, I enjoy tinkering with technology, and broadly exploring how we learn and how we design and develop digital stuff that helps us learn – I capture these explorations on my personal blog.
Career history
Monash University (2014-present)
Roles within the Portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education).
- Senior Adviser (Teaching and learning)
- Adviser (Digital teaching and learning)
- Educational designer
Box Hill Institute (2011-2014)
- Lead learning designer
- Learning designer and project coordinator
Holmesglen (2000-2011)
- Instructional designer
- Multimedia developer and instructional designer (blended role)
- Multimedia developer
Educational background
Formal education
- Masters of Professional Practice (Digital Learning) – completed and graduated
- Bachelor of Media Arts
- Advanced Diploma in Art & Design
- Trainer and Assessor Currency Program
- Certificate IV Training and Assessment
- Passed Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)
Professional certification
- Accredited – Mental Health First Aider
- Agile Fundamentals – ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)
Recognition
Throughout my professional career, my work as an individual and as part of a team in vocational and higher education has been recognised, informally and formally.
Higher education
Recognised for key contributions in educational design and project leadership by winning educators of the 2022 MNHS Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Education in the category of ‘Excellence in Education – Industry and Community Education Programs (Team)’.
Acknowledged by the authors of “Exploring Impacts of a Nutrition-Focused Massive Open Online Course” for the support in the design, development and delivery of the ‘Food as Medicine’ free online course by Monash University on FutureLearn. Also acknowledged by authors of Mindfulness Is Associated With Lower Stress and Higher Work Engagement in a Large Sample of MOOC Participants for datasets from ‘Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance’.
Rated ’The Best Free Online Courses of All Time’ by Class Central for ‘Maintaining a Mindful Life’, ‘Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance’ and ‘Food as Medicine’ by Monash University on FutureLearn.
Vocational
Granted a VET Development Centre Specialist Scholarship in 2013. The Specialist Scholarship enabled me to design, develop and pilot a very simple AR artefact with automotive students and teachers from Box Hill Institute.
Project team was awarded a Certificate of Achievement for NurseryLive!, an ANTA funded Flexible Learning Innovations project from 2002. NurseryLive! was an interactive simulation of a horticultural nursery that requires learners to keep plants free of pests and diseases in order to fill customer orders.
