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Richard is currently a full-time maths teacher at McDonald Performing Arts College. He has also taught at Christian Brothers High School Lewisham for the previous 7 years and at St Marouns Dulwich Hill before that. He has taught every level of Maths in these schools. He holds a B.A., a B.Sc. and a B.Elec.Eng as well as a Dip. Ed. in Maths Education. He scored 99.25 in his HSC and did Maths Extension 2 for his HSC. As well as teaching at high school and for CCE, Richard has marked the School Certificate for the Board of Studies and was an assessor for the 2008 Advanced HSC Maths exam.

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John Wregg is one of Australia’s most experienced and versatile opera directors. A graduate in Law at Melbourne University, he worked as an actor, theatre designer and director in Australia before spending two years in the Italian Film Industry. John has been artistic director of St Martin’s Mobile Theatre, New South Wales Youth Theatre, Australian Theatre for Young People and Bondi Pavilion Theatre. He was also the founding director of the Lygon Street Festa in Melbourne, directing the first three from 1978-1980, as well as the 1999 Festa. From 1981-1993 he was Resident Director with the Australian Opera.

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Dr Nicholas Wright attained a BA (Hons) in Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney (2004) and his PhD at Macquarie University (2010). He has worked extensively as a field archaeologist in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Dr Wright has been a tutor and casual lecturer at Macquarie University since 2009 and is currently a Research Officer at the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies. His principal research interests focus on cultural interactions between settler and indigenous populations in colonial contexts, especially with reference to Hellenistic Asia.

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David Wrigley. Tutor of CCE

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Barbara Wulff. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Fu Xie received her PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Over the past fifteen years, Fu Xie has taught all levels of Chinese language in Chinese linguistics and culture in tertiary institutions in Australia, Hong Kong (SAR) and China.

Fu Xie's research interests are in applied linguistics, especially second language acquisition (SLA) and language pedagogy, discourse pragmatics, and Chinese linguistics. She published several journal papers and textbooks, and doing research helped her appreciate the intricacies of the subjects, which made her always seeking inspiration to improve her teaching strategies. Her students are therefore able to strengthen their language competence and keep motivated to continue learning Chinese.

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Jian has recently completed his PhD in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He has extensive experience in teaching Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language. Jian has been teaching into Introductory Chinese, Intermediate Chinese and Chinese Newspaper Reading in tertiary institutions in Shanghai and Sydney since 2008. He is good at using multiple media and student-oriented approaches to arouse the interests of students in learning Chinese and improve their language skills effectively.

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Paul Yacobellis has been helping professionals optimise their personal productivity for the past 10 years. He has assisted management and individuals implement time saving, energy maximising techniques. He has lead training sessions that cut out wasteful time, reduce stress, and increase overall well-being. Paul’s techniques range from technical to behavioural.

Paul also has experience in data mining and big data analytics, statistical computing, economic/econometric consulting, spatial statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), transport modelling, and business development. He has consulted with government agencies, private corporations and universities, and has previously taught statistics, mathematics, economics and computer science at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Paul holds a Master’s in Statistical Computing (Data Mining track) and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Mathematics.

When not sharing his passion for enhanced personal productivity, Paul works fulltime as data scientist and enjoys parenthood, long-distance running and reading great books.

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With tertiary qualifications in Science and Psychology, Jackie Yammine has been managing offenders within Corrective Services NSW since 2004. Jackie has gained a variety of experience working with offenders in the community as a Psychologist, Community Corrections Officer, Unit Leader and Group Work Facilitator.

Jackie joined the Operational Community Programs Training Unit at Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy as a Learning and Development Facilitator in 2010 and has been developing and delivering operationally focussed training in relation to offender management.

In 2012 Jackie undertook the role of Project Officer for Indonesian Corrections with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She provided expert advice in offender management, developed and delivered training packages to assist staff in Indonesian prisons including programs for domestic violence and sex offending.

Jackie has a passion for working with domestic violence offenders. After developing the Working with Domestic Violence Offenders course in 2013 Jackie facilitated the course to CSNSW employees within the custodial environment and community corrections. The course received widespread acclaim and Jackie has since travelled interstate to facilitate the course to other jurisdictions. Her high level of expertise has been widely recognised and she regularly attends conferences which address all aspects of domestic violence. Jackie is an advocate of the White Ribbon Foundation and participates in activities that promote the work of this important social issue.

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Dr Onjung Yang holds a Bachelor’s degree from Dokkyo University and a Master’s degree from Waseda University, both in Japan. She also has a PhD from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

With more than ten years' experience instructing non-native English speaking students and simultaneously leading targeted lesson plans with innovative educational techniques and research activities, Onjung is positioned to positively affect your learning. Her background includes experience teaching at Korean high schools as a leading teacher for Examination for Japanese University, which is the necessary test to enter Japanese universities. She has organised programs for the test on the topics of Japanese culture and history, and essay writing, reading and speaking skills.

Onjung is trilingual – English, Japanese and Korean- and understands the difficulties many students face when learning a foreign language. She has therefore developed various methodologies for assessment tasks, management results and maintaining quality standards according to each students' level. As a result, all of her students have successfully entered Japanese Universities and are spreading their wings across the world.