TAFE School of Engineering,Technology and Trades - Management Team

School Management Structure ** Please Note: this page is currently being updated**

Organisation Chart (pdf format)

The TAFE School of Engineering, Technology and Trades in the Swinburne University TAFE Division consists of six teaching teams operating across five campuses. The composition of the teams is flexible to reflect the optimum operational needs of the areas concerned. Therefore, some teams operate along geographic lines whilst others are configured along discipline lines. Four managers with school-wide functional responsibilities support these teams. The Business Operations Manager oversees the administrative staff and is responsible for efficient and effective service to internal and external customers; the Performance and Development Manager oversees the legislative and quality standards compliance of the school, as well as new business development; the Teaching and Learning Manager is responsible for the development, implementation and quality of educational programs whilst the Teaching Operations Manager supports the day to day operations of the team and manages staff and teaching performance targets.

The Centre for New Manufacturing (CNM) is a specialist centre within the school established following the 2002 Ministerial statement “Knowledge and Skills for the Innovation Economy”. The CNM works closely with industry and research groups to foster the uptake of new and emerging technologies into training for Victorian manufacturing and engineering sectors.

The teams and Matrix units have a high degree of autonomy but are highly cooperative in their operation to ensure that the needs of students, the team and the school are met. In the first instance, responsibility for this rests with the managers and ultimately the School Director.

School Director
Managers
School Administration

John Cawley - Executive Director, School of Engineering, Technology & Trades

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Ron Barrow - Manager, Energy, Transport & Infrastructure

Ron has been working in the TAFE sector for some 20 years, teaching and coordinating programs in the horticulture and environmental sciences area including Oakleigh Technical School, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Eastern TAFE and for the past few years with Swinburne. He has had many interests and experiences in TAFE working with a range of client groups including people with intellectual disabilities, secondary schools, apprentices, diploma and degree students. Ron has no formal engineering or electronics training but has been exposed to the industry through his early life as a technical school student and through his father and brothers influences who are all qualified in the field. As a project officer with the Emergency Service Training Initiative Unit, Ron honed his skills in project management for the development of industry based training opportunities.

Ron brings to the TAFE School of Engineering, Technology and Trades a wealth of experience in TAFE, Training Package delivery, flexible delivery resource development and management skills.

Stuart Hoxley - Manager, Built Environment

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Juris Liberts - Manager, Centre for New Manufacturing at Hawthorn

Dianne Kelly - Manager, Engineering & Manufacturing

Anna Shaw - Manager, Information & Communication Technologies

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June Dansey - Manager, Performance & Resources

June manages the school-wide administrative staff as well as providing leadership in the development and implementation of school administrative processes. June's role also encompasses supporting the Director in the financial management of the school and co-ordination of promotional materials published for the school by the Marketing Department.

June has worked for the organisation for over 16 years in various administrative positions, the most recent being the position of School Administrator in the TAFE School of Engineering, Technology and Trades for five years where she was responsible for overseeing all facets of administrative operations of the school.

TBA - Director, Business Development & International

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Genevieve Kelly - Director, Learning

Genevieve has worked for almost thirty years in education. Her career commenced in the Secondary Education sector and included work roles in Adult and Continuing Education before joining the TAFE sector in early 1990.

Genevieve joins the TAFE School of Engineering, Technology and Trades after a role as Curriculum and Educational Development Leader, in the divisions of Innovation Education Unit. Prior to her Swinburne roles, Genevieve worked at East Gippsland Institute of TAFE where she worked across a range of disciplines and industry sectors in the vocational education area. Her roles included managing Apprenticeship and Traineeship programs, Labour Market initiatives and employment program.

For eight years she was a member and team leader of the Institutes commercial arm, South East Australian Training Services. In this role she was extensively involved in the design and development of training programs, RTO compliance systems and learning and assessment resources for national and multi national organisations.

Genevieve has been involved in both national and international delivery of programs for clients from the Oil and Gas industries, Corrections, Forestry, Pulp and Paper, Local and State Government and Health. During her years in Gippsland Genevieve was a councillor and deputy mayor for the City Of Bairnsdale and was made a Fellow of the Gippsland Leadership program.

She brings to her role an extensive background in curriculum and training package design, commercial expertise and depth of VET system knowledge

Lorraine Banks - Executive Assistant to Director

Lorraine began her association with Eastern TAFE in 1990 working in Student Administration for 5 years. Lorraine's main responsibilities at this time were the annual awards ceremonies, major enrolment intakes of students and curriculum maintenance on the TOMS system. Following a 4-year period working in Community Programs and having a large interaction with community houses and students throughout the inner and outer eastern areas of Melbourne, a change in direction has now seen Lorraine back in the Executive Assistant role working for the Director, TAFE School of Engineering,Technology and Trades. Lorraine was employed with the SEC for 20 years in various areas, including engineering, planning, training and personnel. This was a very exciting time with the development of Loy Yang Power Station which had a huge impact on all aspects of the SEC.

Lorraine is very involved in the sporting community and has a major role in the local junior football and tennis clubs.