After completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1992, Daniel worked in a variety of jobs – as a storeman with David Jones and Grace Bros before travelling overseas to the USA and Europe and then around Australia. On returning to Sydney, Daniel took up a job with the NSW Department of Sport & Recreation as a Swimming Teacher which led him to undertake a Graduate Diploma of Education (Primary) in 1997 at the University of Wollongong. Following the Grad Dip Ed, Daniel relocated to New Zealand in 1998 to take up a teaching position at Ruapotaka Primary school Auckland where he taught for 12 months before returning to Sydney where he taught at Holy Family Primary School late East Granville from 2000 to 2006 and then at St. Agatha’s Primary School at Pennant Hills.

Realising that Primary teaching was not the best fit, Daniel decided to return to University to complete Bachelor of Marine Science at Macquarie University in 2009 followed by a PhD in Biological Sciences in 2011, graduating in 2017. Daniel’s PhD thesis was “Direct and indirect impacts of a non-native predator: foraging by Carcinus maenas on native bivalves of south-east Australian estuaries” Daniel now works as the Curriculum Co-ordinator at Parramatta Marist High School where he was formerly the Head of Mathematics, Statistics and Data and he couldn’t be happier.