Steven Atkins has been employing his trade qualifications in commercial cookery for 15 years across a range of environments, including a 400 seat function centre, an award-winning a la carte restaurant, a café and the Educational College Restaurant.

Over the past 11 years, Steven has delivered all the core units and many of the electives in the Certificates III and IV in Commercial Cookery at TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute.

In 2014, Steven was named the most outstanding VET teacher/trainer in Australia at the Australian Training Awards.