Curriculum Vitae
This is a list of my qualifications, education, skills and experience. I have a teaching background having trained as a primary school teacher in the UK. I spent most of the last decade as a stay at home mum looking after my two boys but still keeping my feet in the teaching profession through tutoring. Since separating, although teaching is still a passion of mine, I had a desire to go back to my technical roots and bring my coding skills up to date. My ultimate aim is to bring my desire to teach and my love of coding together to create tools and environments for students to learn, especially those that struggle.
Technical Skills
WEB DESIGN
✔ HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, SASS, SCSS, python, SQL, JSON
✔ WordPress Themes and Child Themes
✔ Responsive design, UX Design, SEO
✔ Frameworks: Bootstrap, Foundation, W3.CSS
GAME DESIGN
✔ Unity, C#, Lua, Java
✔ Blender
✔ Future professional development area
APP DESIGN
✔ Limited experience of Obj-C, Swift and Java;
✔ Future professional development area
Qualifications
CERT IV IN DIGITAL AND INTERACTIVE GAMES | 2021
SOUTH METROPOLITAN TAFE, PERTH
✔ Enrolled to attend in 2021
✔ Apply principles of games design and game playing
✔ Create design documents for interactive games
✔ Apply artificial intelligence in game development
✔ Create visual 2D/3D design assets for interactive games
DIPLOMA OF WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT | 2020
NORTH METROPOLITAN TAFE, PERTH
✔ Project Management for a real client project
✔ Web Applications
✔ Database Integration with dynamic websites
✔ Complex UX, layouts and CMS
✔ Client and project management
✔ Product quality assurance and testing
✔ BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
CERT IV IN WEB BASED TECHNOLOGIES | 2019
NORTH METROPOLITAN TAFE, PERTH
✔ Front and back-end website design, programming, graphic design
✔ UX and SEO
✔ Client and project management
✔ Work Health and Safety (Participate effectively in WHS communication and consultation processes)
✔ Copyright, ethics and privacy in an ICT environment
PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (PGCE) | 2006
EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY, UK
✔ Primary Education with specialism in Mathematics and ICT
✔ Includes 150 hours of supervised teaching
✔ Currently hold a non-practising teacher registration with the Teacher Registration Board of WA.
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING | 2003
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, UK
✔ Bachelor of Engineering
✔ Class 2:2 with Honours
Experiences
Client Project
✔ Working in a small team to produce a website to client brief
✔ Involved in all stages of development from design through to testing and product delivery
Therapy Support & Tutor & Mentor
✔ Running Dungeons & Dragons games in clinics for autistic young adults with therapy goals being incorporated into the game.
✔ Tutoring in areas of mathematics
✔ Mentoring children in care through Department of Communities
Hobbies
Keeper of Bees and Stealer of Honey
✔ Bees work hard to produce the honey
✔ I steal it off them but I do make sure there is always enough left for their needs.
Gaming
✔ Can I now count this under professional development?
✔ Minecraft, Age of Empires, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Stellaris, Civilisation, a bit of DayZ and Tarkov but not great at it, Destiny 2, Elder Scrolls franchise, Kerbal Space Program, Human Resource Machine, Portal, Raft, Shenzhen I/O, Warhammer.
Role Playing Games
✔ Mainly Dungeons and Dragons
✔ Also played a little bit of MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing), Star Wars RP, Only War (Warhammer)
Arts and Crafts
✔ Sewing and quilting
✔ Drawing, watercolouring
Learning
✔ Always wanting to keep learning and teaching
✔ Learning German. Very slowly. Sehr sehr schnell.