Personnel

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Pete Sommerville - Managing Director
Pete has overseen the evolution of LEARNZ since its beginnings in 1995. His expertise in the development of virtual field trips has been utilised by a number of countries. Pete has overall responsibility for Heurisko's e-learning projects.
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Barrie Matthews - Simply Websites Business Manager/LEARNZ Project Manager
Barrie started as the LEARNZ Webmaster before moving into a wider technical role with LEARNZ. Now with 10 years involvement in LEARNZ, and a former career as a teacher, Barrie brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to his new role of LEARNZ Project Manager.
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Ivan Huang - Webmaster/Web Developer
Ivan joined the LEARNZ team in 2006. His main responsibility is the website for LEARNZ virtual field trips. He works closely with the LEARNZ teachers ensuring that the field trip experience is as real as can be!
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Joan Sommerville - Office Executive
Making sure that our records are kept up to date is a crucial job. Joan oversees the office systems and will gladly take your phone enquiry on 0800 CALL LEARNZ (0800 22 55 53).
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Shelley Hersey - LEARNZ Field Trip Teacher
Shelley joined the team in 2009 after successfully using LEARNZ to support inquiry based learning programmes in her classroom. Coming from a school where she was in charge of Science and Outdoor Education Shelley brings 10 years teaching experience and her interest and enthusiasm for the outdoors to the LEARNZ programme.
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Andrew Penny - LEARNZ Field Trip Teacher
Andrew moved with his family from the North Island to join the LEARNZ team in 2009. He experienced great success using virtual field trips in the classroom at Parakai School where he was a teaching deputy principal.