Bruce's broad management experience ranges across a variety of media settings. Beyond games production experience on titles such as Spectrobes, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Desperate Housewives, his television credits include The Silver Brumby and The New Adventures of Ocean Girl animated television series. He was founding Creative Services Manager for Madman Entertainment and has managed animation, film, web and DVD Studio and Production environments.  Bruce also has strong Government experience acting as Invest Victoria's eServices manager.

Bruce is an enthusiastic advocate of the promotion and development of Australia's screen, games and digital culture production capacities and remains a passionate advocate of expanding Australian film, television, games and digital media opportunities.

AIE’s Senior Art Tutor, Eve Penford-Dennis has a long history of employment in the games development industry. She initially joined the industry in 1992 working for a variety of Games Developers across the UK including Psygnosis and System 3, before moving to Melbourne to work at Infogrames and Atari.

Eve has contributed to many titles including: Rollerwars, Krazy Ivan, Wipeout 2097, The Last Ninja, DethKarz, Looney tunes Space Race, Le Mans 24 Hours, Le Mans 24 Hours II, Racing Evoluzione, Mission Impossible: Operation Surma, Stuntman.

Screen tutor, Bruce Currie has been working in the field of animation and film for over 20 years, as writer, director, animator on numerous projects, ranging from television program breaks to film theatre, from feature film special effects to exhibition multi-media. Bruce brings this experience alongside a broad understanding of audio visual content and the creative brief to students.

He began his career as an independent animator, working in a cut-out medium, in 1980, winning the AFI award for best animation in 1982 for his short film ‘Flank Breeder’. Through the years he has worked for a variety of clients including SBS Television, the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, Deakin University , Scienceworks Victoria , the Transport Accident Commission and the Bionic Ear Institute. He also has extensive experience with commercial agencies both within Australia and overseas and, as a senior animator, has been responsible for a large number of commercials including most of the recent M+M television spots.

He began working in 3D animation in 1998, producing a short film entitled, 'Love Song' for SBS television, that went on to win ‘Best General Short’ at the Dendy Awards, Sydney Film Festival in 1999.

Paul Callaghan joined the AIE in 2006 as the Senior Programming Tutor after spending eight years as a programmer and designer in the games industry. In 1998 he graduated with a BSC (Hons) in computer science and joined a small independent developer overseas to work on gameplay code for an RTS. In 2000 he moved to Australia and worked at a number of local developers before ending up at the AIE.

As a programmer Paul focused initially on graphics and visual effects before progressing to leading project teams and mentoring junior staff. As a designer he worked on a number of unpublished titles with a strong focus on story and character design, core gameplay mechanics, and concept pitching.

His published credits include Men In Black 2 and Heroes of the Pacific. His unpublished credits sadly outnumber those published.

In his spare time Paul 's studying a Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing as well as producing short films, short stories, comics, novels, and his own game projects.

Joe Tabor, Art Tutor, has been working in the 3d graphics industry for almost 15 years and since 1999 has been working in the Games industry. Working in Melbourne at Torus Games and IR Gurus, Joe has spent the last year working at Electronic Arts Montreal on "Army of Two".

Joe has been involved in the development of numerous games including, Army of Two (2007) EA Games, AFL Premiership 2005 (2005), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd, Gaelic Rules Football (2005), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd, Ashen (2004), Nokia, Duke Nukem Advance (2002), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc, Jackie Chan Adventures: Legend of the Dark Hand (2001), Activision Publishing, Inc, Carmageddon TDR 2000 (2000), SCi Games Ltd.

Geoff’s fascination with programming began in primary school when he obtained his first computer, a TRS-80 featuring a whopping 4KB of memory! With the extreme limitations of memory and processing capacity, Geoff wrote all of his programs using either Assembler or directly using the 6809 machine code. With a small toolkit, lean, efficient code was everything and within a few years he was writing clones of arcade games, such as Space Invaders, Pengo and Moon-patrol etc.

Geoff went on to join the corporate world and founded a freelance software development business which he has managed in various forms over the past 15 years.

Working in partnership with the Head of School in setting up the Melbourne campus, Galatea has seen the school grow from 40 students in 2004 to over 100 in 2007. Galatea ensures the effective running of the Melbourne campus via auditing and administrative practices in compliance with RTO and AQTF standards.

Galatea has a Bachelor of Education from Deakin University and has worked extensively in the higher education sector co-ordinating student service programmes for both domestic and international students. In her capacity as Campus Manager, Galatea plays an integral role in resolving student concerns and provides an invaluable link between staff and students.

Galatea is also the International Student Co-ordinator for the Melbourne campus.