Elvie Arugay

Skills Standards Compliance Manager Elvie is a skilled systems administrator with over 18 years’ experience who understands the intricacies of the VET systems and processes for developing and reviewing training packages and publishing them on training.gov.au. Before joining Skills Insight, her roles included managing compliance, systems, processes and organisation databases in the beverage and maritime…

Dean Tullberg

IT Support Officer Dean is a highly skilled information systems manager with over 20 years’ experience across various industries and working environments. He has an excellent understanding of IT infrastructure and systems integration, with a track record of supporting businesses in change management, problem management and incident management. Dean also has extensive experience training staff in software…

William Henderson

Project Manager William has a background in project management, secondary education teaching and employment services. He has worked on many successful projects, updating the AHC Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management and the FBP Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical Training Packages, including conservation and ecosystem management, broadacre cropping, pharmaceutical manufacturing and biosecurity. Managing these projects…

Tom Vassallo

Project Manager Tom has many years’ experience in secondary school teaching, retail management, human resources, vocational education and training, learning and development consulting, delivery and assessment of Certificate IV Training and Assessment, developing training and assessment resources and project management. Over the last six years, Tom has successfully managed several major projects to review and…

Susie Falk

Project Manager Susie has lived and worked in Australia, Asia and Europe. Her background is in the Education sector, where her focus was on curriculum development and implementation. During her years as an international educator Susie was regularly involved in the preparation and presentation of professional development workshops for teachers of international schools. Over the…

Rebecca Ford

Project Manager Rebecca is a highly experienced industry skills specialist with over 25 years of working in the VET sector. Rebecca has managed many training package projects as an industry skills standards specialist and developed strong professional relationships with key stakeholders across the industries involved. Rebecca has extensive planning and reviewing skills which see training…

Ruth Geldard

Project Manager Ruth has extensive experience in the vocational education and training sector, from working as a trainer/assessor to managing projects for the development and improvement of vocational qualifications, skill sets and units of competency. In her most recent role Ruth engaged and consulted with stakeholders across multiple industry sectors to establish national skills standards for…

Penny McQueen

Project Manager Penny is a skilled project manager with instructional design, writing and editing expertise.Before joining Skills Insight, Penny worked as a project specialist in a multifaceted role working across 23 countries for multiple projects, including leading education and training initiatives to increase collaboration skills in Microsoft 365. While working most recently within the European…

Ngaire Stratton

Project Manager Ngaire is a highly organised, capable, and collaborative project manager with Agile and Waterfall experience gained in start-ups, financial services, FMCG, automotive and RTO industries. With close to 20 years’ project management experience working in a range of industries, Ngaire has extensive stakeholder consultation, client relationship management, project planning, delivery and assessment skills…

Lucinda O’Brien

Skills Standards Policy and People Manager Lucinda is an experienced industry skills standards specialist and has recently led several complex training package projects, including Meat Processing Stage 1 and Horse Care and excels in managing multi-faceted training package projects. Her expertise includes extensive knowledge of VET and working across a range of industry sectors with…

Cathy Beven

Training Materials Project Manager Cathy has extensive experience in project management and in training and development spanning more than 25 years. She discovered her passion for teaching others while working for the Queensland Police Service. Her past experience includes working as a trainer and assessor, in quality and compliance and in RTO management. More recently…

Jess Cleary

Industry Engagement Officer, AFAM ITAB Jess is a stakeholder engagement and management professional with experience working for various membership organisations. Jess’s current role involves coordinating the NSW Industry Training Advisory Body (ITAB), working with the industry to understand and communicate their VET needs. She also supports the work of AFAM’s Industry Training Advisory Committees (ITACs)…

Diana McNaughton

Stakeholder Engagement Manager Diana is an accomplished stakeholder management and engagement professional with over 30 years of experience working across various industries, including, furniture, leather and footwear, animal care and management, racing and breeding, and has established substantial and long-term connections. Diana’s entrepreneurial spirit shone through as a small business owner in the building and…

Debbie Knight

Stakeholder Engagement Manager Debbie is an experienced policy and industry liaison manager who has worked in the agribusiness, food and fibre industries across Australia for the last 20 years. Before joining Skills Insight, Debbie worked for the Industry Skills Advisory Council Northern Territory for seven years, delivering workforce development initiatives across the vocational education and…