Starting a business, building a video game, designing an experiential class or course.
I have experience mentoring a wide range of sectors and capabilities. My expertise broadly lies in the areas of education, entrepreneurship and video game development. As an educator, I have experience teaching almost all ages and across a wide range of contexts. Year 1 to year 12, lecturing at RMIT University, a gymnastics coach, a maths, science and music teacher. I have taught in Darwin, Indonesia, Spain and China across curriculums and in different languages. I have lead EdTech Start-ups to partner with universities around the world and designed and delivered experiential education face-to-face, online and hybrid.
While teaching entrepreneurship at RMIT University I also developed and ran start-up pre-accelerator programs. I have a Masters of Education from Monash University and specialised in Applied Behaviour Analysis. My research project was developing a method to audit higher education's online accessibility for students with disabilities.
As an entrepreneur, I bought, ran and sold my first business, a food truck called The Mexican Kitchen when I was 20, and another venture, this time a product called Bidet Mate: The Wash from Down Under (no joke!), at 28, and am now the founder / director of Darwin's first video game and education studio, Larrikin Interactive.
I have coached and supported start-up entrepreneurs find their way to product market fit, secure investment and grow themselves as entrepreneurs.
As a video gamer, I am a certified unity developer, have worked with local governments, schools and disengaged youth to channel the motivation to play games into learning how to make them, and a strong employable skillset in the meantime.
I supported the formation, and am the secretary and public officer for, the Geek Culture Collective, an NT based not-for-profit peak body for Darwin's indefatigable geeks!
If you are looking for guidance on how to start a business, build a video game, design an experiential class or course, be it face-to-face, online or hybrid, join one of Darwin's geek groups or build one of your own, I can guide next steps, connect you to the right people and sound board ideas.
My times and availability vary throughout the year, but my email is always open and read and if I can't help you straight away, I will direct you to someone who can (when possible!).