(+) Awards & Fellowships

A demonstrated history of working in the media and entertainment industry. Skilled in composition, media production, audio video creation and editing from high end industry tools to desktop production and the Web. A strong business acumen with contributions to the arts and entertainment industry, community vocation, and learning and teaching in the globalised English language market sectors.

Awards & Fellowships

2006 Achievement Award

International Society of Poets

Poetry Award from the Int Society of Poets
Outstanding Achievement in Poetry

2003 Filmmaking Scholarship

Qpix, Aust Film Commission, Pacific FTV Commision

Scriptwriting, Producing and Directing short Films & TVCs.

1998 -2002 Various Collegiate Awards
Adv Dip & Dip Multimedia, CertIII & CertIV FTV Prod
Cert Stage Management: TAFE QLD: Institute of Technical
& Advanced Education, Brisbane.

1992-1994 Diploma of Audio Engineering SAE Sydney
& Brisbane Studios. Collaborative recordings and live

concerts with various talent. Live events at resorts and
festivals in South East QLD, Australia.

1991-1993 Music & Media

Gaslight Music/Eastside Music Bondi Rd, Sydney
Mentors: Guitarist/Producer of the year 1974 Ian Miller
Guitar Gurus: Phil Emmanuel & Tommy Emmanuel.
Moved to QLD servicing, hotels, clubs, resorts, festivals
of East Coast Australia. Worked with QLD Arts Council,
Qpix Television Resource Centre, the PFTC, Australian
Film Commission, Amral Khan's Trinidad Calypso Band
reinvention, and the Caribbean Arts Co, Brisbane.

1980 Economics Award

Hillary College Auckland NZ - University Entrance

High Distinction/First place: Business Studies/Economics

Recent Education

Education

Feb 2016 - July 2018 Part-time

University of Southern Queensland

MA Ed TESOL taking learning and teaching to a higher level of proficiency for professional development and practice within the workforce: Including Syllabus Design, Digital Literacies, Discourse Analysis & Language and Literacy Assessment.

February 2015 - 2017

TAFE Brisbane

CertIV & DipTESOL: Theory and practical application with learning and teaching the 4 macro skills plus Approaches & Methods, Grammar & Vocabulary, EAP, ESP, Sociolinguistics, Assessment Practices and more. Dec2016-June2017: Began work on the Digital Integration community project as production supervisor via Tursal Employment Agency and the Qld Ed Dept.

February 2010 & 2014

University of Southern Queensland

BAMMS Comms & Design (2006-2010) Chinese XPAT teaching ESL. GradCert Ed TESOL. Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages or EAL/D. Grammar, Principles & Practices, Methodology, CALL, Syllabus Design, Digital Literacy, Practicums, Assessment.

Teaching

February 2010-2018 Self-Employed, Part-time

Business. Queensland Trade, MTAQ. TESOL Volunteer.

February 2014-2018 Community Teaching at CAPNAZ

English as a Second Language

Teaching beginners to intermediate English language learners grammar, vocabulary and syntax via communicative language learning, audio lingual and grammar translation methods. Mixed classes.

January 2006-2010 Zhuhai Int School of Business (College Adults 17+) and the American TPR English School (Children 6-11yrs) & Adults.

TESOL. General English, PETS III and TOEIC, Guangdong China

Collaborative teaching at ZIBS campus, the art of English as a Second Language for business communication on campus and General English, ESP for professional adults in the workforce. Also taught middle school primary students 6-11 at school and at language schools on weekends with the American TPR English School, Guangdong.

January 2005 School of Audio Engineering

Audio Visual Lecturer Brisbane

Teaching Dip of Technical Production for audio and visual integration including editing and mix down of Surround Sound for FTV.

Publication

Publications

July 2014-2018: Father's WWII Auto-biography
'My Life in WWII and in Times of Peace

Co Compiler, and Editor / Publisher

An account of the life and times of Henry Carter (26.05.1924-15.02.2014) that depicts the remarkable will and luck that helped him survive. From the life he led as a boy working in the mines helping his veteran father of WWI living in Workington, Cumbria, Great Britain, to his extraordinary life during WWII as a Merchant Navy seaman, and then his life after war in times of peace, as a successful family man, right up to his final departure in February 2014.

Writer, Editor, Publisher

Poetry Book

Poetic Memoirs of Len Carter: Romanticised Memoirs in Postmodern Times

Len Carter

BA Multimedia
Communications & Media Studies
MA Ed (TESOL)