Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

See Tshiung Han Taman Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur tshiunghan@fastmail.com

Education

University of Surrey Roehampton (2000–2004)

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (Single Honours) Academic interests: dystopian fiction, post-colonial literature, Holocaust narratives

Certificate for English Language Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA)

British Council, 2013

Introduction to Teaching Young Learners

British Council, 2019 (Oct–Dec)

Work Experience

Bright Tutor Enterprise (2021–Present)

Owner-operator of English tutoring business (brighttutor.org).

  • IGCSE course design and delivery
  • Academic English reading course for university students (EAP writing clinic at Universiti Malaya — claims, GS/PS texts, data commentaries, summaries, critiques)
  • Curriculum design for professional English for working adults
  • 1:1 tutoring with students from Japan, China, and Korea

SLB (Serveis Lingüístics de Barcelona) (Oct 2022–Present)

Worker-owner of a teaching services co-operative (slb.coop) advocating Long's Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT).

  • TBLT: From Theory to Practice (Jan–Jul 2023) — professional training course, ~1 day 19 hours logged
  • TBL 4 Tourism project (Sep–Oct 2022) — needs analysis, survey design, focus group data analysis, target task grouping, presentations

Lexicon Language Institute (2017–June 2021)

Education Manager (Jan 2020–June 2021)

  • Taught Saturday morning English Club for four years
  • Implemented fluency-focused curriculum activities, enabling one student to talk about a single subject for 40 minutes
  • Found and fixed crucial error in online sales funnel

Full-time EFL Teacher (2018–Jan 2020) / Part-time EFL Teacher (2017–2018)

  • Designed lesson plans for a variety of ages, levels, and class sizes
  • Found and adapted teaching materials to engage and challenge students

Dassault Systèmes / Quintiq (Jul 2018–Nov 2018)

Senior Writer

  • Wrote press releases on new customer acquisitions
  • Pitched and executed online marketing campaigns
  • Produced a podcast for the company's internal e-learning platform
  • Oversaw content production on social media campaigns for legacy products

Bluetoffee Sdn. Bhd. (2008–2018)

Editor

  • Developed manuscripts from scratch with authors — structure, detail, copyediting
  • Print designer, managing editor, proofreading all editorial and marketing copy
  • Found book distributor and managed contract negotiations (2008, 2014), keeping books in KL bookstores
  • Produced ebooks independently, saving the company over RM16,000
  • Designed and managed company website after domain expiry recovery

Course Design Projects

North-South Initiative — TBLT English Course for Community Organisers

  • TBLT curriculum design for grassroots community organisers supporting migrant and refugee communities in Malaysia
  • Conducted needs analysis via unstructured interviews and direct observation
  • Identified target tasks: report writing, describing situations, professional conversations
  • Designed sequenced pedagogic task syllabus grounded in Long's TBLT framework
  • Piloted teaching sessions with community leaders from Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal
  • Prepared funding proposal (USD 6,000 / RM 28,000)

Creative & Performance

  • Bespoke Poetry (Pestza, Zhongshan Building, KL, Nov 2025) — 10-year revival of a poetry event concept
  • If Walls Could Talk (co-founded) — longest-running spoken word event in the Klang Valley
  • Foundry @ Kongsi KL — devised multi-disciplinary performance (Seni Tiga #08)
  • Untimely Ruins — Walter Benjamin podcast (in development), exploring Benjamin's ideas in Malaysian contemporary contexts

Writing & Publications

  • "For Filling Up and Flipping Through: A review of 'Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre'" (July 2018)
  • "The Line Between Moving and Not Moving: A Review of 'Dash'" (October 2017)
  • "Gan + Han" (Sept–Oct 2017)
  • Stuff Magazine features writer (2015–2017)
  • 750 Words daily freewriting practice — 750+ words/day, maintained continuously for over 2 years

Community

  • Repair Cafe KL — active member and co-organiser since November 2025
  • Participatory streaming / pedagogy project — StreamYard-based livestreaming grounded in Freire's critical pedagogy and Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed

Other Experience

  • Speak City Asia (2016–2018) — part-time event organizer, If Walls Could Talk
  • BFM (Jan–Aug 2013) — regular guest on "A Bit of Culture" with Kam Raslan and Shefah Szetu
  • Stuff Magazine (2015–2017) — part-time features writer
  • International School of Kuala Lumpur (2002–2008) — assistant theatre manager, ran front-of-house for 22 productions, taught self light board cue system, managed sound & light crew
  • KL Performing Arts Centre (2007) — stage manager, Tunku the Musical

Skills

  • Applied linguistics, TBLT methodology, curriculum design
  • Editing, copyediting, proofreading, print design
  • E-book production, website management
  • Self-hosting, server infrastructure, AI tool deployment
  • French (limited working proficiency)