Marcus Herstik
Teacher at TAFE Queensland
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMarcus Herstik is an experienced IT educator and practitioner with over two decades of hands-on experience spanning telecommunications, networking, server infrastructure, web development and small business ownership. After senior technical roles at Telstra and Optus he founded and ran a web and infrastructure consultancy for over a decade, then transitioned into vocational teaching and curriculum design for TAFE and university programs in networking, cybersecurity and web technologies. He combines practical operational experience—having run cafes and businesses—with technical leadership as an IT manager delivering BI and infrastructure projects, which helps him translate real-world constraints into classroom learning. Known for saying "that's not how we do it in the real world," he builds pragmatic, industry-aligned courses and mentors junior staff and students toward employable skills. Based on a background that includes a BSc in Computing and a Master-level focus in cybersecurity, Marcus brings a rare blend of commercial, technical and pedagogical expertise on the Gold Coast.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate Science, Higher School Certificate Science at St Ignatius CollegeCertificate 4 - Training and Assessment Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching, Certificate 4 - Training and Assessment Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching at TAFE NSWBSc Computing Statistics Pure Logic Electronics, BSc Computing Statistics Pure Logic Electronics at Macquarie UniversityThe University of SydneyMaster of Information Technology (Cybersecurity) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Information Technology (Cybersecurity) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Southern Cross University
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Github Skills (2)
linux3
testing2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Mherstik/ICTPRG407
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:88 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Mherstik/hello-world
Aug 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
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