Melanie Oliveiro

Melanie Oliveiro’s familiar voice can be heard on Singapore’s airwaves where she continues to hone her skills as a senior producer/presenter at 938LIVE (93.8FM), MediaCorp’s only talk and news radio station. She once co-anchored 938LIVE’s F-CUBE: Food, Fun and Feel Good, an afternoon drivetime show. An ardent foodie, she relished conducting F-Cube’s ‘live’ tasting reports from Singapore’s hottest eating establishments. Melanie was also the creator, producer and host of That’s Showbiz, a 3-minute programme featuring the latest entertainment news and exclusive interview snippets with local and international celebrities. Melanie has interviewed a plethora of stars: from Sir Ian McKellen to Brendan Fraser, from Coldplay to Il Divo, and from Kelly Clarkson to Norah Jones. She also had the honour of interviewing top-selling authors like Ian Rankin, Mitch Albom, Anthony Bourdain and Jeffrey Archer.

Sharon Tan

Sharon is a firm believer in life-long learning and has been an educator for over 10 years. Over the years, she has earned a Master of Arts in Communication Management from the University of South Australia and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern Queensland. Sharon’s objective as an educator is to help students enjoy the learning process.

Kim Kwan-Soo

Kim Kwan-soo was trained at Chung-Ang University before joining the media industry in Seoul, Korea. Over 15 years as a designer and director, he has worked on adverts, indents, and on-air promos in broadcast design, which combined graphic, animation and cinematic live-action. He conducted media design research at the Australian National University and cut his teeth at another polytechnic as a lecturer, before joining FMS. His areas of interests are design aesthetic in media and the hybrid medium of animation, video and film.

Graham Lamb

Graham has been working at Ngee Ann Polytechnic for 4 years where he teaches CG creation modules such as Organic Modeling of CG characters, Hardware Modeling of CG Environments & Vehicles, Digital Matte Painting with the focus of teaching students to create believable photorealistic CG.

Paul Ramani

Paul Ramani has been a lecturer with the School of Film & Media studies from 1993 to date. In his almost 20 years of teaching at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, he has taught 12 modules, with his specialty being in writing and more specifically, journalism. He specialises in teaching second-year journalism modules such as Feature and News Writing. He has also taught Print Journalism, a third-year module, and was advisor to the school’s two publications, HYPE and Tribune in the 90’s. Prior to this, Mr. Ramani has worked in magazines and The Business Times.

Illydea Ishak

Illydea was a producer-presenter for MediaCorp’s Radio Singapore International, covering news and current affairs. Her love for producing and presenting hard news stories in a clear and concise way has always been the main driving force behind her career choices. Being in the media industry has given her countless opportunities to meet and rub shoulders with celebrities, local and international, as well as ask local and regional political leaders the hard questions.

Prior to joining MediaCorp, she was a journalist with Singapore Press Holdings, where she cut her teeth learning newswriting and interviewing skills, covering a wide range of issues such as health, community, local politics and entertainment. She now teaches Communication Issues and Broadcast Journalism under the Mass Communication Diploma at Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Film & Media Studies.

Marc Jonet

Born in Belgium in 1963, in a small town, part of the French speaking region called Wallonia, Marc wanted when he was young, to be an astronaut, then a magician. As his family home was built in 1812, five kilometers away from the famous battlefield of Waterloo, it is probably due to long hours spent in front of the fireplace, listening to epic stories narrated by his parents and grandparents that he started to develop a wild imagination and a taste for sci-fi and fantasy movies.

But it was only when he started his professional career as Television editor for R.T.L. television in Belgium and Luxembourg that he was able to express his creativity and passion for music and editing, visual effects films and television. Later, he decided to cross the Ocean and work in Canada. During his 12 years of active life in Canada, he had the opportunity to work on documentary TV series, video biographies, and, in 1998, Marc was invited to work as online editor on a multi-media opera, The Damnation of Faust, directed by Robert Lepage (Canada) and conducted by Maestro Seiji Ozawa (Japan).

Winner of a Teaching Award in 2002, Marc also created and published an illustrated children book entitled Tales and Legends from the Land of DO, which of course has to do with music. Since 1999, he has been working at Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Film & Media Studies in Singapore as a Lecturer, then Production Studio Manager and later Para-Counselor as well as Course Manager of the Diploma in Digital Visual Effects (DVFX) launched in April 2007.

Marc is currently reading for a Psy.D in Psychology and is also enrolled in a certification in Sound Therapy offered by Soma Energetics and certified by the Natural Therapies Certification Board, U.S.A.

Sng-Fun Poh Yoke

Sng-Fun Poh Yoke is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Film & Media Studies (FMS), Ngee Ann Polytechnic. She has been teaching journalism at the school since 2006. At FMS, she also supervises student editors and journalists in their production of the campus newspaper, npTribune, and the youth-oriented entertainment magazine, HYPE.

She brings to the school more than 25 years of industry experience. At The Straits Times, the flagship newspaper of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), she was sub-editor, reporter and later became the Arts Editor and Bilingual Editor. She also held the portfolios of Books Editor and Architecture & Design Editor. In 1991, she joined the Corporate Relations Division of SPH to serve as Editor of the corporate newsletter and later became Head of Corporate Relations.

In 1999, she became Vice-President of Employee Communications at Singapore Airlines. She returned to the publishing world and served as Consumer and Lifestyle Editor of the magazine Simply Her, in addition to writing for various magazines. Over the years, she has also been active in the arts arena, having founded the Chinese Opera Society and served on the Resource Panel of the National Arts Council.

Adrian Lim

Adrian is an eight-time MOE and Ngee Ann Polytechnic teaching award recipient who graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Posted to Canberra Secondary, Adrian rose to the ranks to become Cluster Art Co-coordinator, where he took care of 16 secondary school’s IT infusion in art program. His creation of the school’s Arts and Innovation CCA video club earned him over 11 Gold, Silver and Platinum film awards including 4 National and South East Asian Panasonic’s Kid Witness News Video Championship Awards and eventually won Best Editing at the KWN World Schools Video competition held in Japan August 2008 thus ranking him and his students third in the world rankings that year.

Talent spotted by MDA for an overseas scholarship to Chapman University, USA, Adrian returned to Singapore with an MFA in film production (directing). Using his knowledge from Hollywood, Adrian is doing what he loves most — teaching films and making them at Ngee Ann Polytechnic School of Film & Media Studies.