APPLICATIONS SKILLS
| • Final Cut Pro • Premiere • After Effects • Illustrator • InDesign • Photoshop • 3D Studio Max |
•Library Management Systems •Learning Management Systems • Microsoft Office suite • MailChimp • Marketing Cloud • Windows 7-10 • Macintosh O/S |
Also proficient using CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP.
EDUCATION
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Holmesglen Institute, 2010
Masters Degree in Multimedia Design, Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia. 2002 – 2004
Certificate in Web & Graphic Design, De Anza College,
California, USA. 2000- 2001
Graduate Diploma – Information Management, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Melbourne, Australia. 1994 – 1995
Bachelor of Arts – Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne,
Australia. 1989 – 1992
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Fairfax Media – Digital producer – 2014 – current
Federation University – casual librarian – 2017 – current
Federation University – Careers project – 2015
Holmeslgen Institute Learning Commons – eLearning, marketing, liaison librarian – 2002 – 2012
City of Glen Eira – Librarian – 2001 – 2002
DeAnza College Library, California – Librarian – 2001
Yarra/Melbourne library service – reference librarian 1996 – 2000
University of Melbourne Baillieu and Law libraries, Librarian – 1994 – 1996
FREELANCE EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
See Gallery of work on this website
Your Arts Prizes Database, founder and director, 2005 – 2011
Developed an online database of Arts funding information.
Designed corporate identity.
Designed the database.
Eco Real Estate, graphic designer, 2002 – 2005
Create and layout Eco Property guides.
Logo design for Eco Real Estate website.
Studies of Melbourne – Collingwood
Gallery Exhibition of Nicole’s paintings covering the past 20 years. 2006
Consult for Disney Productions (Australian branch) to
set up a database (Inmagic +/DB textworks) for the costume department to catalogue
and inventory stock. 1998
RMIT Campus Mural
Painted a large scale mural at RMIT’s Fisherman’s Bend Campus in Melbourne.
1997
PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHY & WRITING
Of rocks and rhinos in Zimbabwe – The Australian Newspaper travel, December 7 2013
Bahamascruise – Curve Magazine, 2013
Bruny Island Cruise monthly winner – December 2010
Thailand Elephant Sanctuary – Perceptive travel, 2010
Nusa Lembongan off Bali – Curve Magazine, May 2009
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Beach break in Honolulu – Jetstar Inflight magazine, December 2007
Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada – Published in The Age travel section, 2004
Spires to admire – Girlfriends January 2001
TEACHING
Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre, 2015 – current
Basic IT
Intermediate IT
IT for jobseekers
Diamond Valley Learning Centre 2012
Certificate I and II in ICT
ICAICT101A Operate a personal computer
ICAICT102A Operate word processing applications
ICAICT103A Use, communicate and search securely on the internet
ICAICT105A Operate spreadsheet applications
ICAICT106A Operate presentation packages
ICAICT203A Operate application software packages
Certificate III in Business Administration
BSBITU302B Create electronic presentations
BSBITU309A Produce desktop published documents
BSBADM307A Organise schedules
BSBADM311A Maintain business resources
BSBCMM201A Communicate in the workplace
VCAL – Victorian Certificate in Applied Learning
Certificate I and II in ICT as above
Multimedia and animation
Digital Media
ICAICT104a Use Digital Devices
ICAICT204a Operate Digital Media Technology
Holmesglen Institute Learning Commons 2011
Certificate IV in Library Studies
CULLB307C – Use multimedia
ICPMM321B – Capture a digital image
ICPMM322B – Edit a digital image
CUFMEM12A – Update web pages
Also teach library staff Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Timpani online
chat software, ABS statistics, 80/20 statistics software.
Alamein Neighbourhood and Learning Centre 2005 – 2010
CGEA (Certificate General Education for Adults)
VBQU167 – Use computer language and perform simple computer tasks
VBQU169 – Complete a project with support
VBQM 474 – Australian Environmental issues
VBQU168 – Access the Internet for Language learning
Thornbury Women’s Neighbourhood House training adults in multimedia, digital imaging and
web design. This included researching and writing curriculum for these courses.
2005 – 2006.
Span Community House training members of the public in Internet, Multimedia
and Information Technology.
This included researching and writing curriculum for these courses. 2000
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Phillips, Nicole (2004) ‘Electronic and Live: Online Reference Two Years
On‘, Breaking Boundaries: Integration Interoperability, 12th Biennal VALA
Conference and Exhibition 3 – 5 February, 2004, Melbourne Convention Centre.