
DAMIEN ORRISS
Employment History
2023 – 2025,
Encore Events
2020 – 2025,
Al-Taqwa College
2016 – 2025,
Cypher VR
2010 – 2015,
Vovo Media
2017 – 2018, Grovedale College
2008 – 2016,
Mount Clear College
2003 – 2007, Warracknabeal Secondary College
2003 – 2003,
Hub Learning Centre Horsham
2000 – 2002, Monash University
1996 – 1999,
RMIT University Melbourne
1995 -1996,
Nova Sound
1992 -1995, Advanced Audio
1992 -1993,
Arts Centre Melbourne
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Roles & Responsibilities: Audio Visual Technician
Conferences, Awards Nights and Gala Dinners, Product Launches, Annual General Meetings, Incentive events, Roadshows, Sales Kick Off Event Services, Wedding AV and Production Services, Exhibition Event Services, Office Christmas Party Event Services.
Venue Audio Visual Technician
Centrepiece Melbourne, Crown Towers, Crowne Plaza Melbourne,
Hilton Melbourne, Sheraton Melbourne Docklands, Grand Hyatt Melbourne, Hilton Melbourne, Hyatt Centric Melbourne, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Showgrounds, Pan Pacific Melbourne, Park Hyatt Melbourne, The Langham Melbourne, Westin Melbourne.
Roles & Responsibilities: Teacher
Junior School; Year 7 Visual Arts, Year 8 Visual Arts, Year 8 Visual Communication & Design.
Middle School; Year 9 Visual Communications and Design, Year 9 Media.
Senior School; Unit 1/2 & Unit 3/4 Visual Communications and Design.
Roles & Responsibilities: Managing Director, Creative Production Director
360-degree video and virtual reality projects, such as online shopping for fashion, real estate, and hiring out venues, as well as virtual tours and entertainment - including music festivals, videos, and sports.
Virtual reality education experiences for training requirements in simulated environments.
Roles & Responsibilities: Managing Director, Creative Production Director
Large-scale video mapping project work, Content development and production, 3D Productions for Clients, Video Mapping Production Co-ordinator, Technical Direction, Video Presentation.
Roles & Responsibilities: Teacher
Junior School; Year 7 Visual Arts, Year 8 Visual Arts, Year 8 Visual Communication & Design.
Middle School; Year 9 Visual Communications and Design, Year 9 Fine Art.
Senior School; Unit 1/2 Studio Arts
Roles & Responsibilities: Teacher
Visual Communications and Design Coordinator, Links Teachers, School Magazine Editor, Production Technical Director, Community Arts Coordinator,
School Events Photographer.
Subjects Taught:
Junior School; Year 7 advance learning program, Visual Arts. Year 8 advance learning program, Media, year 8 Media, Year 7 visual communication & design, Year 8 visual communication & design, Year 8 ICT, Year 8 technology studies, Year 8 remedial program visual arts.
Middle School; Year 9 Visual Communications and Design. Year 10 Visual Communications and Design, Year 9 Fine Art Photography, Year 10 Fine Art Photography, Year 9 Fine Art, Year 10 Web design, Year 10 3D modeling, Year 9 video gaming.
Senior School; unit 1/2 - Unit 3/4 Visual Communications and Design. Unit 1/2 – Unit 3/4 Studio Arts Photography.
Roles & Responsibilities: Teacher
Arts Domain Coordinator, Form Teacher.
MIPS Teachers, School Magazine Editor, School Production Art Director, Audio Visual & Lighting Coordinator, ICT loans Officer, School Events Photographer.
Subjects Taught:
Junior School: Visual Arts, Visual Communications and Design, Media and IT.
Middle School: Creative Drawing & Printmaking, Architectural Drawing & Design, Photography & Digital Art, 3-D Design & Technology, Film-making, Mural Painting and Desktop Publishing.
Senior School: Visual Communications and Design.
Roles & Responsibilities: Tutor
Introduction to Photography and Digital Photography.
Roles & Responsibilities: Art Technician-Faculty of Education
Assisting students with equipment use, monitoring OH&S practices, Tutoring and assessing procedures, Performing Cleaning and organisational duties, ordering and receiving supplies, repairing and maintaining equipment, Managing Student borrowing facilities, responding to teachers’ requests as they arise, preparing classrooms, and assisting students with equipment use.
Roles & Responsibilities: Assistant to Media Arts Technician
Cleaning and organising tasks as required, General Studio darkroom and equipment maintenance.
Roles & Responsibilities: Sound Lighting Engineer
Live Sound Production, Live Audio Equipment Installation, Microphone Instrument Selection and Placement, FOH Mixing, Venue and Instrument Equalization, Lighting Plan and set up for Stage Productions, Live Performances Lighting Director.
Roles & Responsibilities: Sound Lighting Engineer
Live Sound Production, Live Audio Equipment Installation, Microphone and Instrument Selection and Placement, FOH Mixing, Venue and Instrument Equalization, Lighting Plan and Setup for Stage Productions, Live Performances, and Lighting Director.
Roles & Responsibilities: Sound Engineer
Live Sound Production, Live Audio Equipment Installation, Microphone Instrument Selection and Placement, FOH Mixing, Venue and Instrument Equalization.
Launch into UX (Bootcamp & 101), Augmented & Virtual Reality Design Forms, Video Mapping workshops (Madmapper, Resolume Arena 5, Wings Platinum 4), Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator Graphic Design, Video Production Final Cut, Transdisciplinary education seminar, Adobe Indesign Desktop Publishing, Certificate IV Assessment Training, VELS Seminar, Supporting students with learning disabilities in your class, Educating Boys for Success, Innovation and Excellence Learning Strategies.