Experience

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  • Senior Technical Trainer

    • Oct 2021 - Present
    • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Working in the AWS Australia and New Zealand Training & Certification team to deliver training content to customers that drive adoption and usage of AWS services, specialising in teaching Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning courses.Additionally, working across teams within AWS to sha...

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  University of Canberra

  • Canberra, Australia

  • Professional Associate

    • Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
    • Canberra, Australia

    Worked with the INSPIRE Centre and STEM Education Research Centre (SERC), within the Faculty of ESTEM (Education, Science, Technology and Maths), on innovative projects towards education and learning using cutting-edge technologies - most recently, the world-first trial of Microsoft HoloLens in s...

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  Canberra Grammar School

  • Australia
  • Education Administration Programs
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Head of Digital Innovation

    • Jan 2016 - Sep 2021

    Led the subjects of computing, software development, and digital technologies in Years 7 - 12, along with functioning in an advisory role for the primary school to ensure relevance and continuity of technical content through into the senior school.Provided entrepreneurial innovation to the School's approach to technology in education both in curricular and co-curricular programs, particularly with the Code Cadets group, and facilitate the School's community engagement with Canberra and beyond in the space of technology.Key achievements in this space included:• Organising and managing the Code Cadets San Francisco and Silicon Valley Tour (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, and 2020) providing students with exclusive inside access to many high-tech companies located in California, and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from engineers, managers, and executives from these companies.• Partnering with Pearson, University of Canberra, and Microsoft to conduct a world-first trial of Microsoft HoloLens in the school classroom during 2017. This included being featured by Microsoft in their May 2017 keynote and subsequently on their social channels.• Being one of the most successful institutions in the world in terms of students winning scholarships to attend the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) - with three scholars in 2015 (out of six in Australia), two scholars in 2016 (out of eight in Australia), five scholars in 2017 (out of 10 in Australia), and two scholars in 2018.• Applying and being successful for a $10,000 grant from the NSW Association of Independent Schools to introduce drone programming into our curriculum.• Providing authentic and relevant extension opportunities for enthusiastic and talented students, such as participation in hackathons - CGS teams won over $17,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at various hackathons and competitions (GovHack, Hackathon ACT, BSides Canberra, Young ICT Explorers) since we started participating in 2012.

  • Lead Software Development Teacher

    • Jan 2008 - Sep 2021

    Lead software development and digital technologies teacher for Years 7 - 12, responsible for managing all computing and digital technologies subjects to ensure that they conform and comply with the curriculum requirements and necessary programme documentation.Designed, wrote, and teach the middle-years computing curriculum: Year 10 iOS Application Development (previously Objective-C, now Swift) and Year 9 Web Application Development (XHTML and CSS with JavaScript).Currently writing a brand new course focusing on augmented and virtual reality application development, for implementation into the curriculum in 2019.Teaches Year 11 and 12 Software Design and Development for the NSW Higher School Certificate. Recent results include: 2009 1st in State, 2013 5th in State, 2015 7th in State. In my last HSC class (2015) 75% of our students achieved a result in Band 6, and 100% of our students achieved a result in Bands 5 or 6.

  • ICT Manager

    • Oct 2007 - 2011

    Managed and lead the team responsible for the support of users and all IT infrastructure across Canberra Grammar School, consisting of two campuses, 700 computers, and over 1800 users.Responsible for the management of a broad range of production ICT systems, including Windows Server, Exchange Server, OS X Server, vSphere, NetApp, Linux, Nortel, and Cisco infrastructure.Included the management of several major projects, including system migrations and fleet replacements.

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  GovHack

  • Canberra, Australia

  • ACT Territory Director and Event Host

    • Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
    • Canberra, Australia

    ACT Territory Director for GovHack - the largest open government hackathon in the southern hemisphere. Responsible for all aspects of the event in the ACT and Canberra, including arranging a substantial amount of sponsorship and liaising with sponsors to ensure that we met all obligations in retu...

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  The Canberra Times

  • Canberra, Australia

  • IT Columnist

    • Sep 1998 - Apr 2013
    • Canberra, Australia

    Wrote a weekly column in The Canberra Times providing advice to readers in response to computer and technology questions, communicating information in understandable, non-jargon language.Spoken at numerous conferences and meetings about consumer issues in information technology.