Timeline
This is a bit of a timeline of my life, some of the key events and markers along the way - personally and professionally.
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1980 Aug
Life begins
Sydney, Australia -
1986 Jan
Start kindegarten at St Brigid’s School.
Sydney, Australia -
1989 Jun
Moved to Wagga Wagga started school at Henschke Primary School.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2017 Jun
Won Wagga Battle of the Bands. - link to photo
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
1998 Dec
Graduated high school from Trinity Senior College.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
1999 Jan
Travelled to Sweden for a full year student exchange.
Helsingborg, Sweden -
2000 Feb
Started studing a Bachelor of Arts (Multimedia) at Charles Sturt University.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2002 Jun
Started as a Graphic Designer at Snap Printing.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2002 Jul
Dropped out of university - took out an Associate Degree in Multimedia.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2003 Aug
Moved to Ireland. Started in Dublin, moved to Derry and back to Dublin.
Derry & Dublin Ireland -
2004 Jul
Moved to Wales for a new job working at Sutherland Trading as their in-house graphic desiger working on all of their print material.
Cardiff, Wales -
2005 Jul
Packed up our lives in the UK and went backpacking for 3 months. 17 countries and an unforgettable journey.
Europe -
2006 Jan
Freelance graphic design and web work with MSP, CSU and small businesses.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2006 Mar
Back to studying - switched to a Bachelor of Arts (Graphic Design).
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2007 Jan
Fulltime role at Charles Sturt University as a Multimedia Development Team Leader.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2008 Aug
Married in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, USA -
2008 Aug
Honeymoon driving around France for three weeks.
France -
2011 Mar
Research trip to the US for three weeks to investigate mobile learning.
USA -
2011 Sep
Established the mLearn project for CSU.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2012 Jan
Daughter was born.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2014 Jul
Recieved the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards For Leadership Excellence.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2014 Aug
Family trip to Vanuatu.
Port Vila, Vanuatu -
2015 Jan
Took on the role of Online Learning Technology Leader in the learning innovations unit, uImagine.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2016 Jan
Collaboratively developed the Online Learning Model for roll out at CSU.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2015 SepWagga Wagga, Australia
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2015 Oct
Trip to the US to speak at the dLRN conference and meet Kate Bowles, Jim Groom and a raft of other North American Edtech-ers.
Palo Alto, United States of America -
2015 Nov
Gave my talk at Nerd Nite - Exploitation and Enslavement: A Story of Social Media.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2016 Mar
US trip to join the Indie Ed Tech meetup and attend SXSWEdu.
Austin & Davidson, United States of America -
2017 Mar
Started in the Australian Wool Innovations stream of the eChallenge program.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2017 May
Moved back into the house after the fire
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2017 Jun
Visit to Oklahoma for the Domains Conference. Presented Beyond the LMS.
Oklahoma, United States of America -
2017 Jul
Down Under reunion of the Domains crew - Keegan and Jim in Melbourne.
Melbourne, Australia -
2017 Sep
Started the short lived LinkRot podcast and created the Jekyll Podcast tool.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2017 Nov
Runners up in the eChallenge program with the development of Kelpie: The Digital Working Dog.
Adelaide, Australia -
2017 Dec
Noosa family trip with the in-laws.
Noosa, Australia -
2018 Mar
Winners of the Agrihack Challenge and the birth of Chickon.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2018 Jul
Participant and finalist in the Hybrid World Startup Lab. Got to pitch to 400+ attendees on the big stage!
Adelaide, Australia -
2018 Aug
Cairns Klapdor family holiday. Diving on the Great Barrier Reef, white water rafting and quality family time.
Cairns, Australia -
2018 Dec
The great deck build! 45 square meters of it!
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2019 Jan
Part of the India Entrepreneur Boot Camp. 10 days in India with a NSW Government delegation.
Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad & Bangaluru, India -
2019 Aug
Family move to Adelaide.
Adelaide, Australia -
2019 Aug
Start work at the University of Adelaide in the Online Programs Team
Adelaide, Australia -
2019 Sep
Sold our Wagga home. A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into this place and it was sad to see it end.
Wagga Wagga, Australia -
2019 Nov
Best man at my sister-in-laws' wedding. Was a stand in but honoured.
Ferny Creek, Australia -
2020 Mar
Got to experience a full Fringe Festival and WOMAD before COVID shut everything down.
Adelaide, Australia -
2020 Apr
Launch of the MathTrackX Program on EdX. My first work on MOOCs and setup a fully online bridging program for the university.
Adelaide, Australia -
2020 Jul
Turned 40, went home to see family, then spent 14 days in isolation.
Adelaide, Australia -
2021 Feb
Bought our "hexadome" home in Adelaide.
Adelaide, Australia -
2021 Jul
Trip to Kangaroo Island with Ms A. Most naturally beautiful places I've been to on the planet. Was great dad and daughter time.
Kangaroo Island, Australia -
2022 Jan
Frankie joins the family
Adelaide, Australia -
2023 Jul
Family holiday to Fiji. Was quite dramatic with our friend breaking her ankle - but was a much needed holiday.
Viti Levu, Fiji -
2023 Oct
Trip with Mrs K to Port Lincoln. Dived with sharks, saw 4 great whites on the day! Ate oysters and a seafood feast in Coffin Bay and explored the National Parks.
Port Lincoln, Australia
... And there's more to come!