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Bios of members, speakers, industry leaders and guests

Daniel Heckenberg

R&D Lead Developer
Daniel is a software developer in the R&D department at Animal Logic
where he works on graphics tools. His recent contributions may been seen
in Sucker Punch and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.

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Omar Dabbagh

Omar is a keen technologist who has a passion for computer graphics. He holds degrees and certification in Multimedia, Information Technology and 3D Animation / VFX.
He regularly attends events held by Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH and other organisations that provide support for emerging digital artists, producing content for film and video games.
Nomination Statement:
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Bill Lee

Bill works for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) as the AV Manager for the College Of Fine Arts (COFA), keeping the audio and video labs and studios running and assisting academic staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students with the wide range of software and hardware that COFA uses.
Bill had 15 years of experience working [...]

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Nick Hore

Currently Training Supervisor at Animal Logic. Joined AL as a Recruiter in 2004. Previously from 1999 to 2004 was New Media Officer at the NSW Film and Television Office and from 1994 to 1999 was the Visual Arts Industry Unit Coordinator at the National Association for the Visual Arts. BSc (Arch), Sydney University, 1988. BFA, [...]

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Shilo McClean

Dr. Shilo McClean is the author of the books: The Digital Playing Fields: New Rulz for Flm, Art and Performance (Currency House, July 2010), Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film (MIT Press, 2007; 2008; 2009) and So What’s This All About Then: a non-user’s guide for digital effects in film (AFTRS, [...]

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James Murty

James holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science & Pure Mathematics) from University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in Internetworking from the University of Technology Sydney. He is currently the IT Manager for an Advertising and Marketing group and in his spare time consults for the online media industry.
He has 15 years experience in [...]

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Tracey Sernack-Chee Quee

Tracey Sernack-Chee Quee is the Higher Education Course Advisor at TAFE NSW Sydney Institute.
She has more than twenty-five years industry experience as a professional in the fashion and management sectors of the design industry, as well as nineteen years experience as a design and digital media educator and curriculum developer in TAFE NSW.
Tracey holds a [...]

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Debra Symons

I have over 10 years experience in web design and development. I have acquired a broad knowledge of web technologies during this time.
My specialist skills are creating computer graphics and designing and developing custom interactive web applications.
Outside of work, I am interested in digital media and the broadband technologies that deliver digital content.
Innovation is [...]

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Richard Cass

Richard Cass is a designer with over 10 years professional experience in graphic design, web design and illustration working for companies in Canada before returning to start his own creative services studio in Sydney in 2000. Throughout that time, Richard has developed a wide range of skills in the field of visual media design and [...]

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Bethany Bruce

As Learning and Development Manager at Metro Screen, a Sydney based film school, Bethany Bruce is dedicated the professional development and skills building of emerging independent storytellers across screen platforms.
Within skills development Bethany is interested in delivering cutting edge training at Metro Screen across a broad range of interactive graphics programs to up skill [...]

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