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BA Design, MA Interior Architecture

With an innate creative flair and background in fine arts, Anna Long commenced her career in graphic design. Within this environment her skills flourished to also take on interior and product design. These diverse skills have enabled Anna to work across various aspects of the industry gaining invaluable international and local experience.
Anna has worked for leading Italian, British and Australian companies in graphic, interior and industrial design roles. Her interior design career was further enhanced with an Italian Government scholarship to undertake a Masters in Interior Architecture (Politecnico, Milan)

Anna’s design company has completed a wide range of interior design projects that have attracted wide recognition and publication. Her work has received numerous Interior and Industrial design awards.

Anna’s extensive art and design knowledge and interest in education and children led her to set up ‘La Scuola Creative Learning’, a combined Art and Italian Language program, where by students develop their linguistic skills in a creative, fun and stimulating environment.

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Andrew Longhurst has completed a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology), a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Having worked for over 10 years with adults who have disabilities Andrew has developed the strong people skills and is comfortable in his ability to relate to people from a range of different backgrounds as he assists them to reach goals they have for their life.

Andrew’s understanding of Vampires on the other hand, has been built on a strong foundation of exploring their depiction in literature, movies and television.

He suspects that if ever he was to meet an actual Vampire his communication skills would fail him and he would be left speechless, defenceless, and ultimately a very tasty snack. He hopes that his involvement in ‘Vampires Unleashed’ will equip him with the skills to stay alive long enough to be rescued by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Maria started tutoring English speakers when she started her degree in Journalism, Media & Communications in Sevilla, Spain. The majority of her students came from Ivy League Universities in the United States and went to Sevilla to have a bilingual experience. Her cross-cultural awareness and expertise began to develop earlier when she was awarded with a scholarship to study English at Oxford and continued throughout her first years at University when she completed part of her degree at Cardiff University, in Wales. Maria loves Linguistics and Grammar. One of her main priorities is to explain concepts in a fun way, not only through theory but with practical activities in class.

Maria is passionate about the Spanish language, the culture, the food and the amazing places you get to explore by speaking this language. There is no class where she does not tell you a story or a bad joke you can use to keep on learning or memorising new vocabulary. Maria is also a certified translator by NAATI and is used to translating English into Spanish. She finished her first degree at the University of Sydney and completed her double Masters in Translation, Interpreting and International Relations at Macquarie University together with her Global Leadership Program practicum.

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Carolyn Loton has a wide range of practical marketing, sales and business development skills gained through her own strategic marketing consultancy and her previous work at some of Australia’s largest consumer goods companies, including Simplot Australia, Goodman Fielder and Nestle. She has worked in both sales and marketing roles on many market-leading brands including Nanna’s, Herbert Adams and 4N’20 Pies, Edgell, Leggo’s, Birdseye, Uncle Tobys and Country Cup. Her original background was in the health sector.

In 2006 Carolyn founded Juntos Marketing. She now works with a range of small, medium and large businesses in both the product and services sectors to develop practical marketing plans, systems to improve marketing efficiencies and implement marketing activities effectively.

Her clients include Lush Handmade Cosmetics, The Cancer Council NSW, EDAW AECOM, NSW Department of Industry and Investment, Promotional Sampling//5iveSenses and Nestle Australia. Carolyn holds a Master of Business Administration from Edinburgh University, as well as a Diploma in Marketing and Bachelor of Applied Science. She is an active member of the Marketing Women Association, and a regular mentor in their mentoring programme.

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Darren has worked in a diverse range of roles in both the public and private sectors and has been running a successful consultancy for over 15 years. His key areas of expertise are training and assessment design and delivery, human resource management, management and leadership, strategic, operational and project management, and change management.

He assists clients in developing more effective project management approaches and systems. He has also been involved in operational and strategic planning as a manager and later in his career as a consultant. In particular, he has played a key role in a range of strategic and cultural change programs.

He has designed learning programs for clients such as the Australian Institute of Management, NSW Health, NSW Police Force, Kaplan International, Nikon, Coty International, Jemena Gas, CPB, Tyco, and Westpac. He has facilitated numerous training programs, demonstrating his ability to engage diverse audiences.

Darren's qualifications showcase his commitment to professional development. He holds a Master's degree in Education, a Graduate Diploma in HR Management, and multiple diplomas in project management, vocational education, training and assessment, WHS, and leadership.

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Mr Costa Loucopoulos is and English and drama teacher/tutor/lecturer. He was the 2011 recipient of the NSW Professional Teachers Council award for outstanding professional service in drama. He has been teaching the subject for over 22 years, including being Drama Method Tutor/Lecturer at The Universities of NSW and Western Sydney. He is currently enrolled in a PhD at The University of Sydney, where he has also lectures and tutors in Education and The Arts.

Costa’s key interest is developing students' critical awareness, writing skills and participation in civics. He has also been training teachers both here and overseas for over four years and consistently receives good feedback for his practical and well resourced courses.

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Jo-Anne is a specialist in management with more than 20 years of industry experience in the public and private sectors. She has more than 15 years experience in teaching adults and on the job training. She developed and delivered training for many government departments such as the ATO, RTA, Centrelink and ADI and has written, delivered and developed resources for the NSW Premier’s Department for cross agency delivery. She has also provided training services to corporate clients such as Chep, Cleanaway, David Jones, IBM, Woolworths, CSR, Hewlett Packard, Tomago Aluminium, BHP and Coca Cola Amatil, along with many small businesses.

Jo also provides human resource consultancy and training to all levels of business and industry in a range of areas in order to improve their customer service ability, improve their productivity and quality.

Jo-Anne holds a Bachelor of Education (Communications) a Diploma of Teaching, an Executive Coaching Certificate and a number of VET qualifications.

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Dr Georgina Loveridge is an experienced HSC English marker, Senior English Teacher and Assistant Head of Department (English Stage 6). Georgina holds a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of New South Wales, a Doctorate in Philosophy (English) and a Master of Arts (Coursework) both from the University of Sydney.

Over the past decade, Georgina has taught English in a range of Sydney schools including Cranbrook, St Catherine’s and Waverley College. She currently teaches English at Ascham School.

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Loves Data is a rapidly growing digital marketing and measurement company based in Sydney, specialising in website optimisation using Google Analytics, online advertising with Google AdWords and conversion testing.

As a Google Certified Partner, we let data drive improvement of our client’s accounts. We provide our clients with the best data-driven solutions to achieve high quality results for their businesses.

Our friendly team is comprised of highly skilled and experienced professionals who work closely with you to focus on your specific needs. We provide integrated online marketing consulting for our clients and offer training in both Google Analytics and Google AdWords.

We provide certified consulting, training and support for a unique set of Google online marketing tools to help all types of organisations increase targeted traffic to their websites to improve leads, conversions and ROI (Return On Investment).

Our clients include SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses), corporations, government departments, education providers and nonprofit organisations.

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