Born in Colombia, Juancho has spent time in South America, England, and Canada. He is currently the Director of Technology for Relic Entertainment in Vancouver Canada.

John is interested in tools that enable the fast testing of interactive scenarios, be they games, experiences, or other beasts. His current passion is the development of game sketching as a fundamental part of the Video Game development process..

(BA Hons Ling, Grad Dip Ed, Grad Cert Mgt)

Sharon is committed to lifelong learning and has been working in education for 20 years across universities, community and government, in roles ranging from teaching, to staff training and program coordination. She has a fascination for what makes people tick, aiming to help individuals make their 'gifts differing' work for them in both their personal and professional lives.

Sharon has made practical use of her passion for languages and cultural journeys during her travels including Japan (where she spent 3 years), Europe & PA USA, and finds working with international students incomparably rewarding. A Melbourne gal originally, she nowadays calls the delightful Adelaide home. In a bid to maintain a healthy lifestyle, she balances her work life with the joys of her furry family, nature and classical music (especially choral). To keep the grey matter fit, she studies horticulture in her spare time.

Hi my name is Jessica Ament and I am the lead designer for the ETC second life Australia project. I am from the United States and have spent the last year studying at the Entertainment Technology Center in Adelaide Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with an emphasis in special effects. I have a passion for animatronics as well as 3D animation in Maya. My future goals include work, more work and working with team of creative individuals who like the work I do. Some of the companies that inspire me are John Cox’s Creature Workshop, Anifex, Pizzazz, Weta and the Sally Corporation.

Rob graduated from Stony Brook University where he majored in Computer Science with a specialization in Human Computer Interaction. His last semester he took Game Design and Programming courses. His final project, Megis Shell, came in second place at Stony Brook's Third Annual Game Programming Competition.

His undergraduate career was also spent working on the campus newspaper, The Stony Brook Press. He worked on visual layout with Quark and later went on to be the editor his senior year.

Rob has since survived BVW and is now working on the Synchronicity project in Adelaide.

My name is Wing Yi Chow, height 150cm and weight (secret) Kg. I was born in Hong Kong and went to study in Singapore for 10 years. I love playing online games, current games I am playing are Maple Story, Granado Espanda, Tales of Waver, Auditions, 5Street and Moppet. I am looking forward to RO2 opening in SEA server.

In my secondary school years, I learnt drawing skills from my Aunt who is a professional artist, and joined different kinds of Art competitions (comics and fan arts kind of art). I learnt programming and 3D modeling in a Diploma in Digital Entertainment, at Nanyang Polytechnic.
I study music too. I have been playing piano and violin since very young, and I belonged to a Chinese Orchestra for 10years, and currently I am learning music composing.