name	background
Mark Nugent	I have a Bachelor of Internet Computing and have worked as a web developer and PHP programmer. I have also created and conducted training courses in programming with PHP and MySQL
Greg Basford	With degrees in Computer Science and teaching, Greg has worked in Education and the IT industry for 20 years. He has experience in both public and private schools as a classroom teacher, head of department, and IT Director covering the K–12 Curriculum. From 1998 to 2004, Greg worked for Apple Computer Australia managing K–12 Education in NSW. He now works for NETGEAR, a leading supplier of network technologies.
Bryn Jones	Bryn Jones is an Apple Distinguished Educator and has worked with teachers and ICT in the classroom for many years including 9 years at the University of Notre Dame. Through his company ICTPD.NET. he has developed numerous online courses since 1997 and has designed and delivered online Professional Development for Northern Territory DEET, Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia, Cairns Catholic Diocese and individual schools and teachers across Australia. Much of this work has been with teachers in very remote and isolated areas. His workshop on Moodle at BETT, London 2007, was one of the most popular of the conference.
Patrick Ware	Business Development Manager, Laptop Packaging, A Division of  'The Laptop Company'
Linda Cooper and Jim D’Castro	Jim D'Castro is the manager of the Learning Place.
Andrew Dalgliesh	Manager, Curriculum Exchange
Jillian Lennox-Kelly & Claude Jones	OneSchool Team Members
Peter Crooke	Peter Crooke worked as a teacher and IT HOD for Education Queensland for 20 years, teaching IPT, ICTs, Social Sciences and English. He has been the ClickView Learning Advisor for Queensland and the Northern Territory since May 2005, a role that involves providing professional development to teachers and sales support to schools.
Simon Walsh	Simon Walsh has been involved with interactive teaching and the development of e-Content for a number of years. Originally from the UK, he is now Managing Director of Ideal Resources Asia Pacific.
Mark Hacker	Director, AussieTelecom
Peter Pryce-Davies	Peter has taught in Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Special Education over a thirty-year career. He has mainly worked in researching and applying innovative learning technologies, which he still finds very exciting! He has written books and numerous articles on the subject, and presented at many ICT conferences Australia-wide and overseas. Peter is currently Director of Information & ICT at Genesis Christian College at Warner.
Kylie Smith	Kylie Smith (with previous experience in Behaviour support and engagement and as a Maths/Science teacher) currently works with Learning Engagement Online (Sunshine Coast South District Behaviour Support Team) In this role, she works with behaviourally challenging and disengaged students using innovative technology and relationship building to re-engage students. Key interests include using technology in learning engagement, literacy, and personal development through the use of "real life" authentic and challenging tasks. Kylie also teaches students of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast in the area of teaching pedagogy and learning activity design.
Marisa Wilson	Presented by Educational Experience - Home of the Bee Bot. Marisa Wilson is a Cert IV qualified and experience trainer, known in schools for robotics workshops with various platforms.
Bernard Catt	Presented by Educational Experience - Australian distributor of fischertechnik. Bernard is an experienced trainer, known in schools for robotics workshops involving various platforms.
Brett Dascombe	Two years at Bremer State High Two years at ESRI Australia Two years at Wavell SHS Participated in Re-write of Senior Geography Syllabus
Rob Schmidt	Rob is Head of Department (Information Technology and Senior Schooling). He has written many Microsoft access databases for his school and presented at QSITE, QSA VET Conference and Ferny Grove.
Richard Dornhart	Richard Dornhart has been with Symantec for two years working as a Pre-Sales engineer focusing on Symantec security technologies.  Richard has been based in Queensland since relocating from California 4 years ago where he worked for one of the largest hosting companies on the West Coast managing the security infrastructure for websites such as American Airlines, Starbuck, and NBC.com.   Before joining Symantec Richard worked for a national Systems Integrator providing custom security solutions to some of Queensland’s largest corporations and government departments.
Dan Isele	Smart Classrooms ICT Teacher Award recipient 2006 Learning Engagement Online(LEO) Coordinator Sunshine Coast Region
Jack Alsop	Microsoft and ITIL certified. Years of extensive experience designing, implementing and disaster recovery of Active Directory, Exchange, ISA, SMS, SQL and MOM.
Kate Jones	I have been the ICT teacher at Belmont State School for the last 4 years. I am a facilitator of the ICT Pedagogical Licence in 2006 & 2007. I obtained my licence in 2007.
Mary Rowland	I taught science and maths at Ferny Grove SHS for 11 years before taking a secondment to write online biology curriculum materials. I am currently working with the Qld Department of Natural Resources and Water on a school-based Enterprise Learning project.
John  Mitchell	Classroom teacher
Graham Brown	Graham Brown is a technical pre-sales consultant for ProCurve Networking by HP with more than twenty years in the industry. Graham currently holds CCIE and Master ASE qualifications.
Jean Heath	A MIS Administrator working with the Identity Management team, headed by Mark Ruwoldt.
Terry Lawrence	South Coast Photographics representative
Lyndal Hose	Beginning employment with Commonwealth Employment Service (CES), as well as a range of Hospitality roles, employment, customer service and associated sales/marketing of individuals and services, has been a continued theme in her career. Lyndal began with the Cerebral Palsy League of Qld (CPLQ) in the late 90's.  This continued for over 8 years in various roles, for the last 5 years, finding employment for people with disabilities in the Open Labour Market with Access Employment Service a Specialist Not-for-Profit Disability Open Employment Service, auspiced by CPLQ. In this time Lyndal also started and singularly manned an office in Caboolture for CPLQ, winning Highly Commended in the Caboolture Excellence in Business Awards, in the first year of operation.  Access Employment Service- Caboolture continues today. Lyndal Hose has been Business Development Manager with Electro Group Apprentices for 12 months to date. Electro Group Apprentices is a Not-for-Profit Specialist Group Training Organisation for the Electrotechnology Industry. Lyndal has attained a Diploma in Frontline Management and Cert IV Workplace Assessment and Training as well as many disability specific training courses. Enjoying working with young people within the area of employment continues to be her passion and career.
JimD'Castro	Jim D'Castro is the manager of the Learning Place.
Lloyd McDonald	Lloyd McDonald has an extensive background in delivering eLearning solutions to the education market. He has worked for a number of years supporting SkillSoft's education customers throughout Australia and is now Education Manager for ThirdForce Australia/ New Zealand.
Peter John Maggs	A former teacher and Internet curriculum consultant, he has been responsible for developing the education strategy behind Kahootz, an online educational community that allows students and teachers to share and exchange multimedia content with classrooms around the world. Peter's main role at the ACTF has been to empower children to become innovative and active participants, rather than merely passive consumers of media.
Belinda Anderson	Belinda Anderson has spent the last nine years working with teachers across the country, in both primary and secondary education, and across all subject areas. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Office Master Instructor and has been a guest presenter at numerous conferences in both Australia and overseas.
Damien Kee	Damien Kee obtained his degree in Electrical Engineering from UQ in 2001 and is currently completing his PhD in Robotics. He has been teaching robotics, engineering and fundamental software concepts to students and teachers throughout Queensland for over 5 years.  Damien is currently the Chair of the organising committee for the 2007 RoboCup Junior Australian Championships as well as the Australian representative on the International Committee.
ADA CADPartners	ADA CADPartners is a Brisbane based company specialising in the supply of Mechanical and Technical software and specialist software training in these areas. A full range of services including software, hardware, training and support is provided. ADA CADPartners came into being in 1991 with the merger of Aeronautical Designs Australia (formed in 1988) and CAD Partners (an AutoCAD solution provider formed in 1989) to take advantage of the unique skill sets available in both companies in providing services to engineering, CAD and drafting professionals. The company has since become the leading supplier of Mechanical Engineering PC based solutions in Queensland, is a leading supplier of AutoCAD and other engineering software and hardware solutions. ADA CADPartners is an authorised Autodesk Solutions Centre – the highest accreditation available to an AutoCAD dealer – specialising in mechanical engineering solutions and AutoCAD Design. In 1994 ADA CADPartners were appointed by Autodesk Australia as a Premier Training Centre for AutoCAD outside the normal realm of TAFE colleges, to provide a training facility for the commercial user. In 1999 ADA CADPartners were appointed as the exclusive dealer for Autodesk Inventor, the new solid modelling solution using adaptive technology for advanced engineering and mechanical design. ADA CADPartners have won Autodesk's #1 Mechanical Dealer of the year award for four years running - 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006!
Carolyn McNally	Videopro Business Centre
Richard Kelly	Richard Kelly is the coordinator of IPT in the virtual schooling service. He has taught IPT almost exclusively for 6 years and is an experienced commercial and educational software engineer. IPT Online at http://www.ipto.com.au/ was developed by Richard over the last 3 years and is an ongoing project, currently in use by dozens of schools in Queensland and interstate. Richard has presented at the 2005 QSITE conference, the 2006 ACEC conference in Cairns and will be presenting at the 2007 QSITE conference.
Jonathan Clark	Year 6/7 Teacher - Pallara State School Previously lecturer in ICT Education at QUT, and Education Advisor - Learning Technologies.
Elizabeth Perry	I am a passionate Professional Learning Facilitator and former Visual Art and English Secondary Teacher working for MAC1 to provide Professional Learning to school communities and educators. I aim to actively assist teachers to understand the educational objectives of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and take risks to develop their technical literary skills, in order to successfully integrate ICTs in classroom and curriculum.
Brian Chau	Brian Chau is the Adobe Systems Engineer based in Melbourne. He is also an Adobe certified Dreamweaver and Flash developer.
Michael Janz and Luke Deller	Priority Management is an international organization that has built a suite of training programs in essential management skills to keep abreast of technology, and has always maintained its focus on programs which provide practical, effective and immediate solutions to productivity issues in organizations. Michael Janz has been a Director of Priority Management - Brisbane, since 1995. Prior to this time he was a teacher, school principal and Senior Executive in Education Queensland. Michael is best known as the leading facilitator of Priority’s Working Sm@rt suite of programs internationally and has delivered training in New York City, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.  He delivers and oversees Priority’s training delivery in Queensland and the Northern Territory
Mason Wong	An enthusiastic observer of people behaviour, Mason has lived a 20+ year IT career merging futuristic technology with advancements to human society.
Terry Hitzke	Terry Hitzke has spent the last 23 years helping people improve quality of their lives.  He has a passion for the age-old wisdom of natural therapies and holistic medicine, and enjoys making this knowledge available to all.
Karren Needer	I have been a primary school teacher for more than 20 years and a teacher-librarian for the last 7 years. I have become increasingly involved in integrating ICT into the learning process, with strong emphases on information access and multi-media presentations. I have found using ICT in my everyday teaching experiences to be highly motivating for the students and believe that the skills and experiences really do enhance student outcomes. In 2006 I received a Smart Classrooms ICT Teacher Award for making ICT integral to learning.  My role continues to expand and evolve, providing workshop activities for teachers in the use of various applications, and advising on classroom management to maximise ICT integration into normal classroom situations.
Megan Ganter and Russell Hornsby	Megan Ganter is the Science and ICT coordinator at Fig Tree Pocket SS and works collaboratively with classroom teachers to develop and team-teach innovative ICT and Science programs. Russell Hornsby is a year 3 teacher at Fig Tree Pocket SS who uses ICT as an integral part of his day to day teaching.
Georg Schlueter	Tandberg Data’s General Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
Jason Meijboom	Head of Curriculum, ICT Coordinator currently working on the OneSchool project
Liz Blumson	Liz Blumson BA, GDipEd(Teacher-Librarianship, AALIA Liz Blumson is a Co-ordinator of the University of Queensland Library Cyberschool.  She has had many years experience in teaching English and Drama in independent secondary schools and has worked as a teacher-librarian for the last twenty years.  She worked with Education Queensland as Senior Project Officer responsible for setting up libraries in new schools.  She tutors at Queensland University of Technology in the School of Cultural Language & Language Studies in Education. She joined the UQL Cyberschool team at the beginning of 2000 enabling her to further her interest in promoting information literacy among school students.
Matt Burgess	Matt joined Datacom in January 2007 and has over ten years experience in the IT industry. Matt has previously worked with Hewlett-Packard and has extensive experience in designing and delivering SAN storage solutions, backup architectures, data replication and disaster recovery solutions, and Virtual Infrastructure environments. Matt is NetOptions’ primary resource responsible for the design of the VMware solution, including server hardware and storage. Matt holds certifications from VMware, HP, EMC, Microsoft and Cisco.
Shane Hiscock	Shane Hiscock is the Queensland IBM System x Sales Specialist and has had extensive experience with server and blade technology
Grant Armstrong	Grant Armstrong has had a hands on approach with the design and implementation of Corebuild systems into schools over the last six years
Jason Trump	Microsoft - Education Industry Manager
Brian Kealey	Microsoft - Principle Technology Specialist
Sean Tierney	TBA
Mark Kenny	Microsoft - Education Account Manager
Scott Barnes	Microsoft - Developer Evangelist
Jason Trump & the DETA Learning Innovation team	TBA
Sue McPherson and Graham Reid	Graham and Sue are both experienced English teachers and holders of the coveted Pedagogical Licence.
Murray Mitchell	TBA
Sean Sweeney & Sally Vellar	Sean Sweeney is ICT Co-ordinator at Coolum State High School. Sally Vellar is an English and Geography teacher who has extensively trialled many software applications with her classes
Gadj and Jodie Maymuru	Gadj Maymuru is a traditional man for NE Arnhem Land with a wealth of knowledge relating to his people and ancient culture. An artist, presenter and cultural ambassador, Gadj provides the cultural content for Sharing Culture programs. He holds cultural workshops and has also mentored “Boys at Risk” in primary schools. Jodie Maymuru has a Diploma in Multi-media and has developed the interactive Sharing Culture programs. Jodie is a Cert IV qualified and experienced trainer, teaching Indigenous adults through TAFE. Gadj and Jodie are parents of Aboriginal children and know what works and what doesn’t as far as education and Aboriginal children.
Tim O'Sullivan	Tim O’Sullivan is the IBM x Series and Storage Technical Specialist for Queensland
Chris Gissing	Chris is a librarian/manager with Brisbane City Council Libraries. She has been working closely with local schools to enable staff and students to complement school resources with those at their public libraries.
Greg Egan	Greg Egan has been involved in computer education since the late 1980's. He was a high school ICT teacher/coordinator with qualifications including a Bachelor of Educational Studies and a Graduate Diploma of Computer Education.  In 2005 he left his teaching job to be involved in ICT professional development for teachers, which he now provides through his business, Learn ICT. Since mid 2006, Joomla webistes have become a major focus.
Evan Clark	Evan Clark is the Managing Director of ClickView Pty Ltd, and was the original developer of the ClickView Digital Video Library system.
Garrett Huston	Garrett Huston is the Australian Interwrite Product Specialist with Kookaburra Educational Resources.  Garrett has led seminars and training workshops across several industries including hospitality, management, small business and educuation.  Garrett's degree in Medieval Studies, his time as an apprentice chef, and his love of travel hasn't seemed to hurt him much.  Garrett works with trainers and educators every day to help find innovative ways to use Interwrite interactive classroom tools.
Guy Wright	Guy has many years experience in teaching ICT and Literacy.
Birgit Loch	Birgit Loch is a PhD graduate in computational mathematics from the University of Queensland. She now works as a lecturer in computing at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, where she teaches large first-year courses in mathematics and in computing. Her research interests include mathematical representation of leaf surfaces, and more recently the use of tablet technology for teaching in the classroom and at a distance.
Sel Kerans	Sel Kerans is currently the Regional Technology Manager, Sunshine Coast for Education Queensland with almost 20 years experience in learning and leadership with ICTs in a diverse range of classroom settings.  Sel has been heavily involved in the implementation of the Smart Classrooms Professional Development Framework strategy from both the Education Queensland and QSITE perspectives and has coordinated the process of assessment of teacher portfolios for the Pedagogical Licence - Advanced. Sel is the immediate past President of QSITE and former representative on the Australian Council for Computers in Education and hosts one of Australia's longest running web projects in support of teachers - Project Atmosphere Australia Online.
Pamela Gibson	I was brought into Marcom Projects 12 months ago to further the roll out of unitedstreaming to schools throughout Australia and New Zealand having had previous experience in the promotion of new ideas in various companies in Queensland.
Dee Marshman & Terri Barker	Terri Barker has worked in education for 20 years. She is passionate about finding ways to engage students in learning and is currently working as part of the learning engagement team LEO, Sunshine Coast South. Dee has a background in Film, Television and New Media but has also taught English, Speech and Drama, SOSE and Life Skills.  She is a new member of the Learning Engagement Online Team at Sunshine Coast South's District Office.
Greg Stroot	Prior to the role of Training and Presales Director for Blue Reef for the last 5 years Greg has had roles as the Technical Services Manager, as well as Checkpoint Principal engineer, and Netscreen/Portus firewall engineer for a Network Security Integration company. Prior to that Greg has had 10 years of experience in Technical support and IT management at Monash University where he was involved in using network and computing technologies towards educational and research outcomes.
Joanna Walker	My name is Joanna Walker and I am a teacher at Forest Lake College. I have a passion for ICT and enjoy using new technologies. Originally I started my teaching career in New Zealand. While I was there I worked with a number of teachers to develop a successful ICT programme for use in classrooms. I spent two years setting up and working in digital classrooms, in a primary school setting. Over the last two years I have been working at Forest Lake College where I have continued to work on developing successful ICT programmes for classroom use. Over these years I have conducted a range of in-service workshops for teachers, students and parents. The most recent being the ‘Success For Boys’ project, where the main focus was to engage boys in literacy using an ICT focus. This year at our school we are working with ‘HeuLab’ and ISQ on using the HeuLab software in our classrooms, which has proved to be a very positive experience.
Len Henderson	Len Henderson is a director of Binary Designs, a company dedicated to furthering the use of technology in music education. In addition to his consulting work and presentations within schools and universities, Len is also an accomplished guitarist, having performed extensively in the jazz and rock idiom and appeared on several contemporary music albums.
James Humberstone	James Humberstone is a composer and educator, originally from the UK and now resident in Australia. He is currently Senior Education Consultant for Sibelius Software Australia. Having completed his Masters Degree in music composition at the University of Sydney, James has now embarked on his PhD.
Zbigniew Madro	Zbigniew Madro is a Senior Enterprise Engineer at Trend Micro Australia focussing on the Enterprise Business sector. He has 17 years experience in IT and IT security, having held various roles within system integrators and software companies taking in diverse areas such as disaster recovery, storage systems and software security.
Kieran Cook	Kieran Cook is a Senior Engineer at Trend Micro Australia focussing on the small and medium business sector and has been involved with security software for around 7-8 years with various security focused organisations before seeing the light and joining Trend Micro, where he has worked since 2001.