Tammy is a PhD qualified physics teacher with more than 15 years experience teaching HSC physics and Physics Olympiad preparation classes for gifted students. Tammy is the program director of the Australian Junior Science Olympiad program and a sessional lecturer at the Australian Catholic University where she teaches physics pedagogy to preservice physics teachers.

Prior to these roles she taught HSC physics at a local selective high school. She has presented workshops for HSC physics teachers at STANSW stage 6 conferences (in 2024, 2023 and 2021), co-written a number of the NSW DOE module guides for physics and has written module 6 resources for the HSC hub for physics.