ABOUT ME

I started my career as an Art and Design teacher. For a long time, that's where my identity lived  in the classroom, in the creative work, in the relationships with students.

Something shifted when I began noticing that the most powerful moments in teaching weren't about content delivery. They were about design, how you sequence an experience, where you place a challenge, how you know whether someone actually learned something.

That realisation led me toward instructional design, not as a departure from teaching, but as an evolution of it.

Over the past two years, I've built that practice deliberately:

▪ Completed a Graduate Certificate in Digital Teaching and Learning
▪ Designed and delivered AI professional development for educators
▪ Built an enterprise-wide staff onboarding program for Sirius College
▪ Developed AI-enhanced tools, including a custom chatbot for student career guidance

What I bring that most instructional designers don't have is genuine classroom experience.

I know what it feels like to be a learner, what makes content land, and what makes it bounce off. That's not something you can replicate from a course. It's built over years, and it informs every design decision I make.

My approach to learning design is grounded in evidence.

Projects like my StudyTok learning analytics study, where I analysed 987 real student comments to understand digital study culture's impact on wellbeing, shape how I think about every design decision. Data doesn't just measure whether something worked; it tells you whether it actually served the people using it.

• Graduate Certificate in Digital Teaching and Learning · Victoria University

• 10+ years in education , Art and Design teaching,  Teacher Mentoring, curriculum coordination, and student management

• Learning Designer (concurrent role) · Sirius College, six-campus enterprise program

• SRC Coordinator · student leadership, cross-campus event facilitation