Kate Mcdonell
Instructional Designer at Online Education Services (OES)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKate Mcdonell is an experienced instructional designer and accessibility specialist with 19 years of blended publishing and learning-design experience, now shaping practical and compliant vocational and higher-education units in Melbourne. She combines editorial rigour from a publishing background with hands-on technical skills—HTML, AI prompt engineering, LMS platforms (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard), Articulate Storyline and H5P—to create inclusive, constructively aligned learning experiences. Kate has led accessibility initiatives that measurably improved retention and neurodivergent support, and she mentors colleagues while managing multimedia and assessment design. Her past roles span major content publishers and digital teams, and she brings a rare mix of copy-editing precision, project management, and backend/infrastructure exposure from open-source contributions to Performance Co-Pilot. Always curious, she pairs recent study in innovative learning design with practical experimentation in AI agents for students, ensuring solutions are both pedagogically sound and technologically current.
18 years of coding experience
Graduate Certificate Innovative Learning Design, Graduate Certificate Innovative Learning Design at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Certificate IV in Web Based Technologies Web design, Certificate IV in Web Based Technologies Web design at Holmesglen InstituteThe University of MelbourneGraduate Diploma Editing and Publishing, Graduate Diploma Editing and Publishing at RMIT University
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Github Skills (8)
c-programming10
system-programming10
performance-analysis9
memory-management9
error-handling8
testing5
version-control4
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Github contributions (5)
performancecopilot/pcp
Jun 2007 - Jan 2023
Performance Co-Pilot
Role in this project:
Back-end & Infrastructure Engineer
Back-end & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 10208 commits, 274 PRs in 15 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kate primarily focused on improving the robustness and functionality of the PCP toolchain. Their contributions involved fixing bugs in the code related to handling process and metric information, and they made efforts to improve error handling and performance. The user made code changes to enable delta indom records in metadata files and improve various diagnostic features.
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kmcdonell/pcp
May 2017 - Apr 2025
Performance Co-Pilot
Contributions:2 PRs, 3377 pushes, 180 branches in 8 years
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