Ivan educated  at the Australian Catholic University and Monash University; he holds a Master's Degree in Sociology, A Bachelor's Degree in Theology [Majors: Biblical Studies and Philosophy] from the Melbourne College of Divinity besids studies at Leeds, [UK]. He is an accredited teacher,  columnist, motivational speaker, radio broadcaster and author nuancing a  genre  primarily scriptural and philosophical,  amortising a repertoire of themes having regard to contemporary and tradition needs.  

His writing also include  a  Memoir [tribute to his late spouse] and several booklets inter alia on John Paul II and relative material that are available at the Centre of Christianity Library St John Paul II's Pontificate Documentation Centre, Rome for all those doing research  on the pontificre of the Pope.  He has run his own printing press and produced  periodicals for a readership circulation around the Christian world.