Graduate Certificate in Commerce

University of Sydney - completed in 2004 with a credit average (transcript)

Bachelor of Computing

Monash University distance education - completed in 2004 with a credit average (transcript)

Associate Diploma in Electrical Engineering

North Sydney Institute of TAFE - completed in 1993

Certificate IV in Workplace Training - Category 2

Accredited in 2000 by Drake Training

ABC Broadcast Engineering Officer.

The associated traineeship is considered by the ABC to be equivalent to the Television Operators Certificate of Proficiency (TAFE course: TVOCP). Later I became responsible for teaching and co-ordinating this trainee program.

Completed the following managerial training courses:-

Negotiation Skills, 2 days, Rogen International.

Business Communications Skills, 2 days, Engineering Education Australia.

Assessing Demonstrated Competencies, 3 days, University of Technology, Sydney.

Introduction to People Management, 3 days, Australian Institute of Management.

Train the Trainer, 5 days, Australian Institute of Management.

Completed the following ABC and Sony technical training courses:-

Digital Video Effects, Digital Audio Theory, CD/DAT Technology, Logic Analysers, High Reliability Soldering, Sony Monitors, BVW400 CCD cameras.

Member - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) since 1997.

For four years I managed my own video post-production company called EditHouse. This included responsibility for all the legal, financial and other aspects of the company. EditHouse employed several freelance and casual staff.

During ABC TV's move to the Ultimo Centre in 2003, I was employed as a Project Manager 2 to 4 days a week for 12 months. I was responsible for planning the production facilities for the digital television youth channel, Fly TV, the music program Rage and the helipad playout centre for News. I also shared responsibility for designing the new RF house monitoring system for both TV & radio.

As the National Technical Trainer for ABC Television (1995-98), I was responsible for the Broadcast Engineering Trainee scheme. This involved the employment and development of technical trainees. I also worked closely with the ABC EEO Officer in regard to the Macquarie University Young Women and Physics residential schools and the ABC scholarship scheme for women studying Electrical Engineering.

Working for ABC-TV's Planning and Installation area in the mid-90's, I was required to direct staff and contractors, and liaise with management, technical and operations staff. I oversaw the conversion of the News Syndication area to a stereo format, and planned, supervised and commissioned the refurbishment of the primary Sound Effects Suite.

For the technical fit-out of the ABC's new studios in Ultimo, I planned and commissioned the installation of Fly-TV's Avid LANshare and a large portion of the RF house monitoring systems throughout the centre.

In April 2003, I was asked to design the technical facilities for the Television Sydney (TVS) bid for Sydney's community-broadcasting license. This included a design philosophy, schematic drawings and equipment budget for a fully functional community television station. On 18 March 2004, this bid was declared successful and the ABA allocated the Channel 31 television license to TVS.

During the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, I was the Technical Operation Centre (TOC) Supervisor for the Darling Harbour Convention Centre. As such, I was responsible for all television and radio signals entering and leaving the venue. This included the Host Broadcaster's coverage of the weightlifting, several Rights Holder signals, the Darling Harbour "beauty shot" and the City-South leg of the Marathon.

In ABC-TV's Master Control, I was required to understand all technical aspects of the television station, including the operation and repair of all Central Apparatus Room equipment, monitoring of station signals, and urgent crash maintenance in the event that there was a fault with the on-air signal. MCR personnel are also required to advise ABC staff and the general public on technical matters relating to the ABC.

For the 3 years before I moved to London, I taught video editing and DVD authoring to Masters and third year Media & Communications students at the University of New South Wales. I have also taught editing at UWS and was a guest speaker at a MetroScreen DVD Authoring course.

From late 2000 until 2003, I was employed part-time at Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE as a teacher for their Film and Television Production course. I taught the subjects Small Business Management, Multimedia Production, Production Documentation, Media Information & the Internet and Optics & Light.

I have written several technical articles and reviews for Digital Media World and other magazines.

During 2003 I developed 8 modules for TAFE's Diploma of Screen and Diploma of Digital Media, including Operate Master Control, Configure Broadcast Software, DVD Authoring and Manage Multimedia Assets.

During the two years leading up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games I was one of two people who developed the Host Broadcast Training Program. We trained eight hundred university students to perform the roles of Audio and Camera Assistants, CCU Operators, Videotape Loggers and Liaison Officers. The program was a great success, with our students being given much praise from the overseas production crews and rights holders. I also developed a training program for the technical staff who worked in the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and the Technical Operations Centres (TOC) at each venue.

During the past eight years I have designed, managed and delivered the following training courses:-

Project Management: 2 day course for technical, production & management staff

Introduction to Digital Technology: 1 day, attended by technical staff from ABC, TEN, SOBO & Global.

Serial Digital Video: 2 days, attended by ABC engineering staff in Sydney, Perth & Brisbane

Digital Audio: 1 day, attended by broadcasters from ABC Radio

RS-422: ½ day, attended by engineering staff from ABC Television

Fourteen components (108 days) of the ABC Broadcast Engineering Trainee scheme

In 1998 I co-led a two week Train the Trainer course in Phnom Penh for Television Kampuchea and National Radio of Cambodia as part of an ABC development program funded by AusAID.

Part of my work in London involved being the Producer for several DVD projects. For this work, I had a staff of 4 designers, 2 DVD authors and a QC technician, as well as several freelancers. These projects dealt with the highly successful Postman Pat and Angelina Ballerina brands, as well as DVD's for BBC Languages.

In early 2002 my company authored and published a compilation DVD of short films and animations. The DVD was reviewed in Filmink magazine - "Short films, particularly indie ones, rarely get the digital (deluxe) treatment, and EditHouse have transferred them immaculately, taking full advantage of the technology". Filmink review 4 out of 5. DVD Now review 3.5 out of 5. Empire review 4 out of 5.

For "Testimony, The Legend of Charlie Parker", which played at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival 2002, EditHouse put 50 video clips and 70 still images onto DVD-R's. These images were projected onto a huge screen behind the jazz musicians.

I have written the code for the following Internet projects:-

• Instigated, designed and maintained a web site for SOBO's 800 trainees. This site included a bulletin board and several self-marking interactive quizzes. It was visited more than 20,000 times in the 2 years leading up to the Games.
• Designed and instigated an intranet site for ABC-TV's Training Department.
• A bulk mailout engine (through which 12,000 clients received weekly emails), password protection system and on-line insurance quotation calculator for René Rivkin's site.
• The database search engine for Carricks Family Bookshop.
• Design and creation of a web site for AB Communicates, based on the company brochure.
• Design and creation of web sites for my own business - EditHouse and ICTV.