CV

• See also: Media Production, AV Art and Performance and Writing & Research

  EMPLOYMENT

  2009-ongoing Project Manager, Web Developer, Media Producer
  FREELANCE

  2009-ongoing Project Manager & Consultant
  EngageMedia Collective Inc., Melbourne
  http://engagemedia.org / http://plumi.org / http://transmission.cc

  2009 Technology, Research and Project Development
  EngageMedia Collective Inc., Melbourne
  http://engagemedia.org / http://plumi.org / http://transmission.cc

  2005-2008 Co-founder, Organisational & Project Manager
  EngageMedia Collective Inc., Melbourne
  http://engagemedia.org / http://plumi.org / http://transmission.cc

  2007-2008 Digital Content Editor – Create Your Future
  Create Foundation, Melbourne
  http://www.createyourfuture.org.au

  2006 Conference Organiser
  Transmission: International Meeting of Online Video for Social Change, Rome
  http://transmission.cc/

  2004/2005 Multimedia Content Coordinator
  ROO Media, Melbourne
  http://www.roomedia.com/

  2001/2003 Project Manager and Multimedia Producer
  BeyondTV (now Clearer Channel), Manchester, UK
  http://www.clearerchannel.org.uk/

  2001 Web Designer
  RisingTide, Oxford, UK
  http://risingtide.org.uk/

  2000/2001 Video Archivist and Video Stream Producer
  Undercurrents, Oxford, UK
  http://www.undercurrents.org/

  1996/1997 Camera Operator, Lighting Assistant, Audio Assistant
  SBS TV, Sydney
  http://www.sbs.com.au

  EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  2009-2011 Bachelor of Film and Television
  Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne

  2003 FinalCut Pro Advanced
  Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Melbourne

  2003 FinalCut Pro
  Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Melbourne

  1997/1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts (incomplete)
  College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales, Sydney

  1996/1997 TV Studio Operations Traineeship
  SBS TV, Sydney

  1995 H.S.C.
  Newcastle High School, N.S.W.

  1994 Directing for Video
  National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sydney

  AWARDS & INDIVIDUAL GRANTS

  Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant 2011
  Lionel Gell Scholarship for BFTV at Victorian College of the Arts 2010
  Friends of the VCA Encouragement Award 2010
  Asialink Dunlop Asia Fellowship 2007
  Australia Council Run_Way Grant Recipient 2002

  PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND APPEARANCES

  2010 Organiser, Plone Video Sprint
  PLONE CONFERENCE 2010, BRISTOL, UK
  http://www.ploneconf2010.org/

  2009 Presenter, Workshop: The This Is Not Poetry Orchestra
  NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS FESTIVAL, THIS IS NOT ART FESTIVAL, NEWCASTLE
  http://www.thisisnotart.org/

  2008 Participant, Open Video Alliance Founding Meeting
  YALE INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECT, YALE LAW SCHOOL, NEW HAVEN
  http://openvideoalliance.org

  2008 Panelist, “Community Media Values”
  OPEN SPECTRUM QUALITY CONTROL SYMPOSIUM, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
  http://www.openspectrum.org.au/2008/09/26/symposium-quality-control/

  2008 Presenter, “Online Video”
  FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL, KUALA LUMPUR
  http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/

  2008 Panelist, “Online Activism and Civic Engagement”
  TECHNOLOGY AND IDEAS FORUMS, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
  http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/ltf/forums/tech_forums/

  2008 Presenter, “FOSS Codecs for Online Video”
  FOUNDATIONS OF OPEN MEDIA SOFTWARE / LINUX CONF AUSTRALIA
  http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2008/

  2008 Panelist, “The Role of Information Technology and Media in Sustainability”
  SUSTAINABLE LIVING FESTIVAL, MELBOURNE
  http://www.slf.org.au/

  2007 Panelist, “Post Paper Publishing”
  NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS FESTIVAL (TINA), NEWCASTLE http://www.youngwritersfestival.org/

  2007 Panelist, “Citizen Journalism”
  EMERGING WRITERS FESTIVAL, MELBOURNE
  http://www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au/

  2007 Trainer / Workshop Facilitator, “Online Video”
  OURMEDIA, UTS, SYDNEY

  2007 Panelist, “Video Online”
  FRAMED #02, DIGITAL HARBOUR, MELBOURNE
  http://www.openchannel.org.au/

  2007 Panelist / Workshop Facilitator, “Image, media and activism”, “Online Video”
  EARTHLING ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM, NEWCASTLE
  http://earthling.thisisnotart.org/discussion.php

  2006 Participant
  ADVOCACY DEV III, ASPIRATION TECH, SAN FRANCISCO
  http://www.aspirationtech.org/

  2006 Sprint Participant
  BIG APPLE PLONE SPRINT, CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA TEACHING AND LEARNING, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY
  http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/bigapple

  2005 Panelist / Presenter, Panel: AV Performance, Workshop: Online Video
  ELECTROFRINGE, NEWCASTLE
  http://electrofringe.net/

  2005 Lab Participant, EngageMedia Project
  X-MEDIA LAB, ACMI, MELBOURNE
  http://www.xmedialab.com/

  2004 Panelist, Hybrid AV Performance
  ELECTROFRINGE, NEWCASTLE
  http://electrofringe.net/

  2003 Panelist, AV Performance
  STRAIGHT OUT OF BRISBANE

  2002 Panelist, Demystifying the technical aura of vjamming
  STRAIGHT OUT OF BRISBANE