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Meet the SkillsOne Team

Background

SkillsOne TV and skillsone.com.au was conceptualised, managed and produced daily by The Australian Channel for The Institute for Trade Skills Excellence between late 2006 and mid December 2008.

In that time the team of video producers, researchers, writers, technologists and web producers broadcast 18 hours of television programming weeking on Foxtel/Austar(Aurora Channel 183) and created thousands of engaging, inspiring and informative videos for this important trade skills and career resource.

From mid December 2008, daily maintenance of the site was assumed by The Institute.

Here's a look at the team behind this Award winning project:

Andrew Rovenko Andrew R was the Lead Broadband Web Developer and resident genius working with the team in the Web Lab to bring this beautiful site to you and make sure it works. Thankfully for us he’s got a background in Applied Mathematics and spent 2 web years (that’s the equivalent of 7 human years) as Lead for videos on BigpondTV among other things.		Andrew Sjoquist Andrew S has been our technical infrastructure manager with seemingly limitless patience and a capacity to retain specifications for every piece of IT equipment ever invented…in his brain. Give him another Red Bull and he’ll keep running. If we want to know the difference between a terabyte and a yotabyte we ask Andrew S.
Helen Sjoquist Helen has worked with Peter Sjoquist on a range of social change projects and has been involved since the first ideas for SkillsOne came about. She's worked in the private sector and government and has provided advice during our start up phase. When she's not doing that, Helen is actually busy running the Croc Festival - a 10-year project to improve the lives, health and opportunities for Indigenous, rural and remote young people.		Kathryn Franco Kathy led the Web Lab as Head of Digital Media and worked closely with Peter Faiman, Geoff Tanner (2007) and Peter Burge to integrate strategy and digital programming with the web platform. She’s a veteran of the Internet space but started out in film and TV with the original Sunday program. She was founding producer of ninemsn, David Jones Online and other web projects whilst co-founding a hi- tech distribution company. Find out about the Webby Award Nomination for SkillsOne
Lucy Nash Lucy worked as the Senior Production Manager after starting as a Researcher. She stunt-doubled occasionally to help our viewers and web users get into many subjects. Having given up on a more "serious" career as a lawyer (!), Lucy truly hit her strides. “It’s the first job I’ve truly enjoyed,” she says.		Matt Jenkin Debonair. Uncompromising. Professional. These are the attributes Matt wished he had. In reality he’s been a fantastic Video Producer over the past 2 years and also managed to knock out his own award winning flick The Tourist in his non-existent spare time.
Samantha Haskins Sam is our daily IT support engineer – yes, a woman among many men in IT! She can often be found pinging some machine (whatever that means), talking network stuff with Andrew S or fighting fires in the comms room… (thankfully not real ones). It’s fair to say there will always be something to do at SkillsOne...and the reason she needs to wear snow gear to work is: it's freezing in the server room!		Peter Burge Pete began as one of our esteemed Editors spending many hours in the dark and tries to balance that with travel, surfing and music. Not much has changed now that Pete is now our Head of Television spinning out hours of TV and web content with the team. He oversees production including the work of Video Journalists, setting our production values, shooting schedules and on air scheduling. Pete has been a producer, director, editor, grip, writer and cameraman since 2004 and trained at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Peter Faiman The Paul Hogan Show, The Don Lane Show, Crocodile Dundee, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening broadcast…do we need to say anything more? Pete is the creative force behind these and many other successful endevours. He has worked for Kerry and Rupert and guided so many successful projects from the Nine Network to BSkyB to FX that the credits would be too long to mention! He’s our creative guru and an inspiring guy keeping us focused at SkillsOne.		Peter Sjoquist Peter is the Executive Producer driving a vision of using television and the web for social good. He’s turned the original Sydney Rock Eisteddfod into a worldwide event with Global Rock Challenge . Unless you’ve been under a rock (get it?) for 25 years, you’ll know all about it from your school days. Peter is always thinking of new projects to make our world a better place.
Rachel Beaney Fresh from University, Rachel has put her media and production skills to the test at SkillsOne and was a vital 2008 web team member. Corinne Walsh Juggling news publishing with a final year at Uni, Corinne has also been a vital part of this 2008 award winning team.		Alex McCoid - Researcher 2008 Michelle Sahayan - Researcher 2008 Michael Gumley - Video Producer 2008 Rosalie Whittington - Researcher 2008 Liam McKeown - Senior Editor 2008 David Kennedy - Fission Specialist & Editor 2008 Gemma Rose Amos - Assist. Graphics Editor
Warren Berkery Writing a bio for Warren is like trying to write about a holy man. Or maybe Bob Dylan. “Legend” is a word that springs to mind…but we digress. Warren played the role of technical consultant and is well-known for his 44 years of innovation and inspiration at the Nine Network where he worked in Outside Broadcast and began the first microwave links. In between giving us some advice, he’s got some great yarns. We had to pull all the resources of SkillsOne to find a pic of Warren to spare us from one of his hand-held photos that would have him looking like a celebrity on steriods.		SkillsOne Alumni Credits People who made their mark along the way Studio Cream Design - John and Luisa for their fantastic brand, web and broadcast design talents! Bradley Conomy - Video Producer Roman Diewald - Nightime Editors Assistant George Kacevski - Graphics Editor Heidi Krause - Broadband Producer Jasmine Kostas - News Journalist Melissa MacDonald - Production Coordinator Liam MacKenzie - Researcher/Prod Manager Corey Maynard - News Editor Rodney Meier - Video Producer Linda Mirabilio - Video Journalist/Producer Niyarti Parikh - Video Journalist/Producer Emma Sampson - Video Journalist/Producer Rishi Shukla - Senior Editor Massimiliano (Max) Sappa - Video Journalist Leilah Schubert - Video Journalist/Producer Geoff Tanner - Head of Television John Young - Video Journalist Fergus Cappie-Wood - Production Coordinator