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Cindy Tan. Tutor of CCE

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Richard Tan is a web designer/developer, digital media designer and an award winning IT professional. He has produced work for companies like Lion Nathan, Colonial First State, Qantas and Cisco. Richard has taught digital media and IT subjects for over 20 years, and at The University of Sydney since 2001. He is ITIL V3 certified and also holds a Cert IV in Workplace Assessment and Training.

Having programmed in languages as diverse as Perl, ActionScript, Java, C#.NET and JavaScript, Richard can recommend PHP as the easiest programming language to start with. It is for this reason that he has continued to teach his PHP and MySQL courses for over 16 years at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education.

Originally from Sydney, Richard now resides on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. Although he has created online, distance and blended courses for many organisations, his passion for face-to-face teaching sees him fly back to Sydney to continue teaching the courses that he and his students love.

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Yiming was born in Daqing, China, in a city close to Harbin, famous for its ice sculptures in winter. Yiming left her hometown at the age of fourteen and completed her high school and tertiary education in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor degree of Arts and Education from the University of New South Wales. Music was her major and Chinese Studies her minor. During her time at university, Yiming has undertaken several exchange programs overseas, exploring other languages and cultures, as well as pedagogies about second language acquisition.

Yiming is a NESA-accredited language teacher and has experience in teaching adult learners, secondary school learners and primary school learners. She believes that all cultures have their own beauty and is passionate about diversity and teaching Chinese to learners in need. Yiming also believes that life is about continual learning and always seeks inspiration to improve her teaching strategies. She strives to deliver interactive lessons that foster enthusiasm and encourages students to speak.

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Naikan Tao. Tutor of CCE

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David Taylor. Tutor of CCE

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Samuel Tensingh is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Sydney. He has 13 years of experience designing Digital Integrated Circuits for Avago Technologies, Broadcom Limited and ST Microelectronics in Singapore, where he worked as a Senior Physical Design Engineer. He has multiple certifications from Cadence Design Systems. His experience is mainly in RTL-GDS Implementation, delivering numerous ASIC designs in his career.

Samuel holds an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Anna University, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an active member of 35 Technical Societies across the globe. He has reviewed papers and chaired sessions in more than 10 IEEE conferences and holds seven patents for IoT projects. 

Samuel published a paper titled “Methodology for Structured Data-Path Implementation in VLSI Physical Design: A Case Study” in Electronics, an MDPI Journal, 2022, and an article “Importance of Security in IC Design” in the Singapore Semiconductor Voice magazine by the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association, 2019. He also received a Technical Merit Award for the paper “A Novel Approach in Security Implementation and Clock Tree Synthesis using ICC2” in SNUG, Penang, 2018. He is passionate about sharing his expertise with students and professionals and has delivered Guest lectures in more than 100 international platforms on VLSI design, IoT, and cybersecurity.

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A dedicated Indophile Judy Tenzing made her first visit to India in 1976. On her return she changed her university major to South Asian Studies and has made her life’s passion her career, working variously as a tour leader, Himalayan mountain guide and administrator in the region for over twenty years.á Judy runs a tour company, Tenzing’s Journeys in Sydney which offers specialist tours in Nepal, India, Tibet, Burma and Bhutan. Her book, Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest was published worldwide in 2001.

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I was a high school Vietnamese literature teacher in Vietnam for ten years (1977 – 1987), and was also a Team Leader of Social Science Team (1982 – 1987). In 1990 I came to Australia to study Bachelor of Commerce. In 1997 I graduated from University of Western Sydney. I had been working there as a casual tutor of Statistics for Business, Business Modelling, and Biometry for 15 years (1996 – 2011). Currently I am a Vietnamese teacher from K-6 of Vietnamese Cultural Incorporated Schools in Sydney on Saturday at Canley Vale Public School NSW. I am very excited as this is my first time to teach Vietnamese language to adults at CCE.

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Oren Thaler is a graduate of the Hebrew university in Jerusalem in Middle East Studies and Jewish Philosophy. He is currently doing a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict studies in Sydney university, focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Oren has been working in Education in Jerusalem for ten years, as a teacher and as a facilitator in Jewish-Arab programs. He is currently living with his family in Sydney and teaching in Emanuel School.

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Deborah Thomas is a psychologist in private practice, specialising in the treatment of weight-related issues with emphasis on the treatment of binge eating disorder, night eating syndrome and general overweight and obesity. She is currently writing a book on the psychology of weight loss and regularly presents her work at conferences in Australia and overseas. She also has a strong teaching background with a previous career as a school teacher spanning some sixteen years.