Jo King
Instructional Designer at NDIA
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
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Top SchoolJo King is an instructional designer with 9 years of focused experience creating compliant, engaging learning and assessment materials for VET and higher-education contexts across Australia. A former trainer and graphic designer, Jo blends strong UX sensibilities with practical expertise in Moodle, H5P, Adobe Creative Suite and creative Office workflows to optimise online and hybrid learning experiences. They have personally developed over 500 units/courses that have passed ASQA quality checks and audits, and have led teams to the same consistent compliance outcomes. Jo specialises in designing development systems, templates and exemplars that boost quality and efficiency—helping organisations stay market-competitive while reducing rework. Unexpectedly technical for an L&D professional, Jo has contributed backend test logic and a new language interpreter to a popular code-golf repository, demonstrating a knack for rigorous testing and lightweight language tooling. Based in Greater Brisbane, they hold a Graduate Certificate in Innovative Learning Design and multiple TAE qualifications, combining pedagogy with pragmatic production skills.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma of Design (Graphic Design), Graphic Design, DIA Certificate of Merit, Advanced Diploma of Design (Graphic Design), Graphic Design, DIA Certificate of Merit at Canberra Institute of TechnologyCertificate IV in Training and Assessment TAE40116, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment TAE40116, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching at Fortress Learning (RTO 31974)Graduate Certificate in Education (Innovative Learning Design), Educational/Instructional Technology, Graduate Certificate in Education (Innovative Learning Design), Educational/Instructional Technology at Queensland University of TechnologyTAE40110, Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment, TAE40110, Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment at North Coast TAFE
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Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
code-golf/code-golf
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
A game designed to let you show off your code-fu by solving problems in the least number of characters.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jo primarily contributed to the backend logic of the "code-golf" repository, focusing on adding and improving test cases for the ten-pin-bowling challenge. The user introduced random test case generation, which improved the robustness of the testing framework. They also added a new language interpreter for Hexagony, demonstrating an understanding of language implementation and potentially code golf challenge design.
gamesolvingproblemssolving-problemslet
GrayJoKing/Cascade
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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