Marissa Bond

I am a skilled technology leader with a genuine love of teaching and learning in all its forms, and I believe strongly in the possibilities that technology presents in this space. For the last 4.5 years I have had the privilege of leading a team of energetic and highly skilled software engineers, 3D designers, UX/UI designers, and IT specialists to deliver immersive, future-focused education and training solutions to clients in the education, government, and defence spheres. During this time I also managed both the company's internal IT and cybersecurity functions and the customer IT support team to ensure the success of both our staff and our clients as the organisation grew from a start-up to a scale-up.

I am comfortable working in a fast-paced and often high-pressure environment, and I am skilled at prioritising and problem solving as needed to ensure outcomes are delivered as expected by all stakeholders. Throughout my career I have developed strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders across a range of disciplines and organisational levels, including academia, education, government, industry, and defence. I would relish the opportunity to apply my love of teaching and technical knowledge to a new role.

Refereed journal articles

• Milne, M., Raghavendra, P., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D.M. (2018). Personalisation and automation in a virtual conversation skills tutor for children with autism. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 12(3) pp. 257-269.

Refereed conference papers

• Milne, M., Leibbrandt, R., Raghavendra, P., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T. and Powers, D.M. (2013). : Lesson Authoring System For Creating Interactive Activities Involving Virtual Humans. In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. pp 13-20.
• Milne, M., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Development of a Virtual Agent Based Social Tutor for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 1555-1563. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596584.
• Powers, D., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R., Milne, M., Pashalis, J., et al. (2010). MANA for the Ageing. In Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, ACL 2010. Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems. pp. 7-12. [online]. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-2702.
• Milne, M., Powers, D.M. and Leibbrandt, R.E. (2009). Development of a software-based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders. In Jesper Kjeldskov, Jeni Paay and Stephen Viller, ed. Conference proceedings?: Australian Conference on Computer Human Interaction (OZCHI 2009). Australian Conference on Computer Human Interaction. pp. 265-268.

Book chapters

• Anderson, T.A.F., Chen, Z.-H., Wen, Y.-F., Milne, M., Atyabi, A., Treharne, K., et al. (2012). Thinking Head MulSeMedia: A Storytelling Environment for Embodied Language Learning. In George Ghinea, Frederic Andres and Stephen Gulliver, ed. Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 182-203. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-821-7.ch009.
• Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D. (2011). Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, ed. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 23-48. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch002.
• Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Leibbrandt, R., Lewis, T. and Powers, D. (2011). Embodied Conversational Agents for Education in Autism. In Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, ed. A Comprehensive Book on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, pp. 387-412. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/18688.