Who We Are
Our BridgeAus Team
About Us
Johanna was born in the Philippines, lived, worked, and studied in New Zealand, and then moved to Australia. While in between jobs, Johanna had a chance to work as a volunteer English teacher for migrants in New Zealand. This experience gave her so much satisfaction and sparked her interest in helping migrants.
As a migrant herself, Johanna understands the importance of getting the correct advice that will give you the best chance of getting your visa approved. It is also important to talk to someone who can effectively communicate with you because migration is a personal matter and it can be an emotional process.
Johanna has over 15 years of work experience in Marketing and Communications in various industries including IT, Telecommunications, Finance, and Surveillance. With a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, a Masters in International Business from Auckland University, and a Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law and Practice from Victoria University, Johanna’s industry and academic knowledge are put in practice as she deals with client’s individual circumstances.
Johanna is passionate in helping migrants and firmly believes that getting your visa approved is just the start a long-term and meaningful relationship.
With Johanna’s recent admission as a Legal Practitioner in Australia, we can cater to your needs for other law matters such as divorce, wills, conveyancing, employment law, and other areas of law through Dragon Legal Services.
Our mission is to help our clients reach their dream of living in Australia.
Vision: To be our clients’ family away from home.
Family
We believe that family comes first. In a family, there is love, care, and trust for each other. This is how we treat our clients. We embrace them as part of our family. We keep in touch and we genuinely care for our clients’ welfare. Getting a visa approval is just the first step of our long and meaningful relationship with our clients.
Passion
We enjoy being there in our clients journey to Australia, whether to visit, study, work or to live and settle here permanently. We look forward in celebrating every step of our clients’ new beginnings in Australia. Whether you get your visa approved, get a job offer, bought a car or found a new place to stay, these kind of news will always make our hearts smile.
Trust
Trust is earned through consistently giving out successful results, being competent, and maintaining expertise. We have a good track record of keeping our promises, ensuring compliance, and consistently educating ourselves with the ever changing migration regulations.
Our team
Iris Bernardini Mizumoto
Registered Migration Agent (MARN 2117607)
Iris provides advice to our clients during consultation sessions, reviews the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of our applications, finalises and lodges our visa applications, and acts as our clients’ advocate with the Department of Home Affairs. Iris used to practice as a Lawyer in Brazil, therefore, she handles our clients’ migration cases with ease.
Outside work, Iris is busy juggling her family responsibilities especially with her two lovely daughters.
Shaine Monreal
Shaine prepares clients’ PR visa applications at BridgeAus. When not scheduling and leading weekly updates, she also oversees the Bridgeaus website traffic and attends to the concerns of the team.
After work, Shaine usually goes straight to her classes and on holidays she binge-watches TV series on Netflix. On weekends she walks and plays with her dog. She’s teaching herself how to play the ukelele.
Mary Grace Dela Paz
In her spare time, Grace looks after her family and business 24-7.
Mel Turao
Mel conducts BridgeAus’s customized PTE review classes; he writes content for the company website (having authored six books) and moonlights as editor of the staff’s corporate correspondence.
Outside the training room, Mel walks for hours under the sun, sometimes with a dog, most times all by himself. He is at work on his third book of poetry about tramps and unschooled folks who can heal the sick and raise the dead back to life.
Charmei Napatang
Charmei is the voice our clients hear over the phone most of the time: She handles temporary visa applications, answer inquiries through calls, emails, FB page, and website. No consultation gets scheduled without going through her.
Charmei loves to lounge around and splurge on me-time on her days off.
Samantha Shanne Hermosa
When not deep at work on skills assessment, she creates quotes and client agreements, as well as other required forms that provide a smooth sailing experience for BridgeAus clients.
As a former online English teacher, Samantha has a soft spot for foreign languages.
Hazy Grace Suplico
Hazy breaks down in easy terms all details of documents and forms used for client applications; she then arranges and stores these files so they go through the correct procedure all the way to the end of the process.
On weekends you’ll find Hazy hooked on Netflix specials, particularly on cooking and exotic foods. If time permits, she loves to go on unplanned long rides and travels.
Kimberly Elumba
Kimberly focuses on carefully handling client documents, ensuring that all important files are uploaded correctly into their personal folders. She also processes and reviews payment receipts and invoices for accuracy and compliance.
On easy days, Kim uses her hands to create something out of almost nothing. She has made scrapbooks and is self-taught in sewing, both of which are eye-catching for those on the lookout for craftsmanship.
Sophia Muzones
Sophia is the main contact for clients on the following visas: Visitors Visa, Graduate Visa, and Internship 407 Visa Application. She sends checklists and required templates, follows up with clients, and gathers and checks the information and documents they have provided.
During weekends or in her leisure time, she typically enjoys watching anime and Korean dramas. Additionally, she has been working on a few crochet projects.
Jovanne Basilan
Jovanne is our Sales/Marketing Assistant based in the Bicol Region. Her daily responsibilities involve promptly addressing inquiries from our website and Facebook page. Additionally, she is responsible for generating and dispatching invoices and payment receipts to our clients. Jovanne also takes on the task of event planning, for events happening in Bicol.
Outside of her working hours, Jovanne finds joy spending time talking and playing with her dogs. She also enjoys long car ride while listening to good music.
Jojie Berdejo
Jojie is responsible for handling enrollment inquiries regarding course study options, student visas, and 407 visas.
In her free time, Jojie enjoys watching K-dramas for entertainment. She also spends time with younger members of her church community, doing activities that bring everyone closer together. Her job and her hobbies show she’s a caring and well-rounded person.
Ivan Raymundo
Ivan’s responsibility includes document identification to ensure the authenticity and compliance of provided documents with specified requirements.
After work, he typically unwinds by taking a nap, binge-watching TikTok videos, playing mobile games, and cherishing quality time with family and friends.
Hannah Benicarlo
As the Lead Conversion Staff, she manages crucial aspects of client interactions and financial transactions. She handles Facebook inquiries, creates quotes, drafts client agreements and invoices, receives payments, and schedules sign-up discussions with clients to ensure smooth communication and service delivery.
Balancing her role with her studies as a working student, she also enjoys traveling, shopping, bonding with friends, and cooking in her free time.
Joanna Marie Ariola
Joanna, the Lead Conversion Staff, is responsible for overseeing inquiries, handling sign-ups, consultations, preparing and sending quotes, client agreements, invoices, and payment receipts. She also saves documents and creates folders for new clients.
In addition to her job, she is also a student. After her work duties, she heads straight to school for her classes. In her free time, she enjoys playing volleyball, watching anime, Disney movies, and various movie series, and reading books.
Jeania Aranador-Dino
Jeania is in charge of the Human Resource Department. She handles end-to-end recruitment, compensation and benefits for all employees, payroll, and managing offenses and violations.
On weekends, she enjoys spending time with her two kids and helping her husband manage their family business.