Murray Hutton Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Duties:
• taught migrants (Class 2B) in the Language and Literacy Program.
• assisted in a water safety training program for migrants at Kingston swimming pool
• occasionally engaged as a substitute/cover teacher for AMEP classes
• employment interrupted due to COVID19

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Duties:
• teaching Academic English classes and PTE Preparation
• demonstrating a deep knowledge of English and the flexibility to present dynamic and EAP and university foundation classes to a variety of levels and students with minimal preparation time
• employment interrupted due to COVID19, current sponsor for Job Keeper

Australia, Japan, China, Qatar, Kuwait And Saudi Arabia.

• Duties:
• the adaptability – and talent - to teach energetic, engaging English classes, written and spoken, to people of very different backgrounds and cultures and to keep them (and me) motivated
• the skills to develop and work to curricula and external quality standards
• formed support networks and relationships to live and work long-term in foreign countries and cultures, including the use of local foreign languages
• usually unsupervised, this teaching involved great flexibility, self-direction and time-management skills and the demonstrated patience and understanding to deal with the inevitable cultural and pedagogic challenges.
• I have found these skills, refined in both the classroom and the staffroom, to be particularly useful in the occasional inbound sales and enquiry positions I have held since.

Gold Coast, Queensland And Chatswood, Sydney.

• Duties:
• taught language, literacy and numeracy to preliterate migrants and to prevocational underage students at two Australian Government Registered Training Organizations
• strict adherence to rigorous government policies, protocols and Australia Quality Standards, subject to periodic auditing by independent regulatory authorities
• courses included bridging English entry programs such as CSWE and SEE
• involved much empathy with illiterate and preliterate students, usually migrants.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Duties:
• conducted O.H.S. audits on residential and commercial properties, according to Australia Quality Standards and building code regulations
• extensive use of computers, preparing reports, mainly the Microsoft Windows suite
• communicated at a technical level with tradesmen, contractors and management
• dealt with inquiries with a high level of customer service
• promotion, marketing, and general office duties

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Duties (among others):
• during this period of my career, I had a variety of sales and inbound enquiry positions, wherein I consistently exceeded both sales targets and customer expectations
• while at university, a lot of market research work, on the phone, in the field and conducting focus groups, mainly for Reark Research and AGB-McNair (1980-1990)
• while serving as crew on a cruise boat, in Cairns, I was able to convert most enquiries into introductory diving courses, souvenir sales and repeat business (1991-1994)
• in selling Privilege Cards on the phone, for the Cairns International Hotel, the friendly rivalry between other team members and myself, resulted in record sales for the whole group, and significant bonuses and.
• for the Ralan Real Estate group in Sydney, I arranged real estate sales evaluations by telephone at such a rate, that the sales team could not keep up, and they gave me a couple of weeks off on full pay. Sales staff.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia And Cairns, Far North Queensland

• Duties:
• Following the completion of my Master’s Degree in Japanese at Sydney University, and coinciding with the Japanese inbound tourism boom in Australia in the early 1990’s, I was engaged as a local tour guide, SCUBA diving.

Master Of Education - Med, Tesol/Applied Linguistics, Credit With Some Distinctions

Master Of Arts - Ma, Japanese For Business Purpose/Japanese Translation, Credit

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Government, Law Subjects And Psychology, University Of Sydney, Pass And Credit

High School