Alumni

I started my time at Seymour College in year 7 and graduated in 2016 with an Atar of 91.05. I had fantastic support throughout my entire schooling, but specifically from my VCE teachers, who all went above and beyond to ensure we had the tools to succeed both in our studies and in life. A few short years later, I had graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, majoring in finance and marketing. Commerce studies at Melbourne are quite broad, which allows you to try a little bit of everything but choose a major when you decide what you like doing most. During my studies I waitressed at Fowles Wine casually, but towards the end of my degree I was offered a new position as a Marketing Coordinator for the winery. After two years in this position, gaining knowledge and experience from my colleagues, I was promoted to Venue Business Manager and I am thoroughly enjoying being able to put the challenging parts of my degree to full use.

I graduated from Seymour College in 2011, after which began studying Bachelor of Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Business Management at RMIT. In my final year, as part of my Honours program, I had the opportunity to experiment and investigate timber- concrete composite structures. During my studies, I worked as an undergraduate engineer at BMD Constructions, a civil infrastructure firm, gaining first- hand experience in the field and helping deliver projects such as the Victorian International Container Terminal and the Caroline Springs Railway Station. Having recently completed my degree, I will soon begin working as a graduate engineer at BMD Constructions. My schooling at Seymour College provided me with the crucial foundation required to build upon over the 5 years of higher education.

The pathway I have gone down is an apprenticeship. To be more specific I am an apprentice electrician. I am currently working for a company called KLN Group, who are based in Queensland. Although I am working on a few sites based on the Puckapunyal Army Base. We are working on industrial and commercial sized buildings. This is a great opportunity for me to learn new skills and to adapt to working on big building sites. Once I am finished working on this four year apprenticeship, I will become a qualified electrician.

Since graduating from Seymour College in 2010, joined RMIT University to complete a Bachelors degree with Honours in Chemical Engineering. I graduated in 2014 and have since been working at Arnott's Biscuits as a Process Engineer in Research & Development.

Since attending year 12 in 1988, I have gone on to complete a Diploma of Business HR, Advanced Diploma of Business and more recently Graduate Certificate of Management (pathway to MBA) which I am still working through. When I left STHS I was still unsure of what I wanted to do, as is the case for a number of students. I am the General Manager Human Resources for GrainCorp (S&L) which is an Agri-business and although I am based in Sydney, I travel constantly to our 170 sites around the country. The connection to Agriculture was generated no doubt from the area I grew up in, coming from the farming background and STHS definitely influenced my decision to pursue Human Resources.

I completed year 12 at Seymour College in 2018 in the subjects of English, Methods Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Business Management, Further Maths and VET Engineering. Thanks to a strong year 12 result, I was able to get into university straight away, so this is my first year 2019. Right now, I am studying a Bachelor of Engineering at RMIT majoring in mechatronics and advanced manufacturing. Through my first and second semesters I have been exposed to various aspects of the mechatronic and advanced manufacturing disciplines including computer programming, computer aided design (CAD) and the basics of mechanics and materials. I have had a great start to my tertiary education and look forward to the next three years of it and potentially continuing on to a master's degree. In terms of a career down the mechatronic engineering pathway, there are many possibilities that I can look for including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, or I could start my own business offering mechatronic solutions for clients. I have managed to obtain an internship over the summer break at a company called Honeywell Engineering which will give me exposure to some of the engineering sector in Melbourne and I will see what happens from there in terms of my future career pathway.

I graduated in Seymour Technical High School's Class of 1991 after which I was offered a position to study a Bachelor of Arts majoring in both Public Administration and Criminal Justice Administration at RMIT in Melbourne. I enrolled in additional courses and was the only student to complete the double major in three years. I was one of the top three graduates of the degree. La Trobe University then offered me a place in its Honors Program and I completed my thesis in Political Science a year later after which I enrolled with Monash University's School of Law. I completed my Law Degree in 1998 and undertook the requisite practical training at a firm in the city before admission to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2000. I had lots of ambition when I was a STHS student but was never sure I could catch the stars I reached for. With hard work, fierce determination and the support of a very special STHS teacher who believed in me (and many years later came to my law school graduation), I did.