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Name:                        John Piperias

Nationality:                Australian

Marital Status:            Single

Email:                        piperias@hotmail.com

 

Tertiary Qualifications:

 

Academic Qualifications:

Charles Sturt University - Master of Information Technology 1999.

University of New South Wales - Graduate Diploma in Information Science (Computing) 1994.

University of Technology, Sydney - Bachelor of Applied Science (Physics) 1989.

 

Teacher Training Qualifications:

Teacher Training courses include: Basic Methods of Instruction (1991), Teaching & Learning Strategies (1993), BMET (1994), National Teaching & Learning (1998), Classroom Management (1998), Workplace Trainer Category II - NSW Business College (1998), VITAL TAFE Training (2000), Train the Trainer - Executrain (2003).

Short Courses:

ICDL (Executrain - 2003)

Blackboard (UAEU - 2003)

Teaching Experience:

Current Position (tenure)

Organisation: United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain Campus)

Period: 2002 - present

Position/Title: Lecturer in Information Technology

q       Lecturer in IT for the University General Requirements Unit.

Achievement: Provided instruction and guidance for students that are from another culture, understanding the complex social issues and successfully educated students in technically demanding areas. Chair of the Professional Development IT - UGRU.

 

TAFE Colleges (Australia)

 

Teacher at a number of TAFE colleges, all the positions have been undertaken on a part-time contract basis since 19991. The main duties include the teaching of the various subjects, comprising of the following general subject &/or course areas:

·         Certificate Level II - Certificate Level IV Information Technology

·         Diploma Level Information Technology

·         Mathematics for Engineering Diploma

·         Physics and Computing Studies for HSC Matriculation Students

Organisation: NSW TAFE Colleges

Period: 1991 - present

Position/Title: Lecturer in Information Technology (casual)

Role:

q       Lecturer in the areas listed above, which comprised of the setting the learning outcomes, exam writing, tutorials, assignment setting and directing technical staff members.

Achievement: Taught a range of different subjects from the above areas to students from a broad range of different cultures. Teaching included students from the Western Suburbs of Sydney, means a socially demanding aspect towards teaching, especially since the students come from such a broad range of educational backgrounds

Private Colleges (Australia)

Organisation: Central College - Formerly NSW Business College (George Street, Broadway)

Period: 1996 – 2001

Position/Title: Lecturer in Information Technology (casual)

Role:

q       Lecturer in IT for Cert III to Diploma level courses.

q       Former Head of Department, co-ordinator (scheduling) of all courses in information technology.

q       The hiring of casual / part-time academic staff for all college business programmes.

Achievement: Designer of current information technology program conducted at the college.

 

Organisation: Wollongong University College, Sydney Campus (Regent Street, Broadway)

Period: 1998

Position/Title: Lecturer in Information Technology and Computing Co-ordinator (full-time)

Role:

q       Co-ordinator duties include needs assessment for the college, purchase of equipment, installation and running of all IT equipment.

q       Support for college staff in IT areas, supervise installation of networking equipment, assist in hiring of casual / part-time lecture staff for all IT programmes and writing of diploma level subject outcomes.

Achievement: Setting up of the computer rooms within the Sydney Campus.

 

Universities (Australia)

Postgraduate Teaching Positions (casual)

Organisation: University of Southern Queensland (Sydney Campus), University of New South Wales

Period: 2000 - 2001

Position/Title: Lecturer in Information Technology (part-time)

Role:

q       Lecturer for postgraduate students in Data Analysis and Modeling, Oracle Distributed Systems, Systems Planning and Management, Systems Security and Control, for Graduate Diploma students (USQ) and Business Information Systems (UNSW).

q       Lecturer in Business Information Systems for Masters students (UNSW).

Achievement: Instructing students in a technically demanding field at postgraduate level.

 

Undergraduate Teaching Positions (casual)

Organisation: Charles Sturt University (Sydney Campus)

Period: 2000 - 2001

Position/Title: IT Coordinator CSU - Study Group (full-time)

Role:

q       Head of Information Technology for the CSU program in Sydney.

q       Lecturer in Object Oriented Modeling Techniques (UML), 4GL Programming, Systems Environment and Supervisor responsible for final stage projects in Undergraduate program.

Achievement: coordination of the IT program in Sydney, all associated duties of head of department such as enrolments, scheduling, hiring of staff and acquiring organisational requirements in regard to academic programs.

 

Organisation(s): University of Ballarat (Sydney Campus), Australian Catholic University (Castle Hill)

Period: 1999, 2000 (Ballarat), 1996 (ACU)

Position/Title: Lecturer in Information Technology (part-time)

Role:

q       While at Ballarat, the duties comprised of coordination for the course, instructing undergraduate students in the following subject areas: in Database Management Systems, Knowledge Based Systems and Programming.

q       While at Australian Catholic University, the duties comprised of coordination for the End User Support course with instructing undergraduate students and associated the duties.

Achievement: Instructed students across three broad areas of information technology. Development and delivery of the End User Support instructional material.

 

Organisation(s): University of Western Sydney, Nepean; University of Technology, Sydney; University of New South Wales

Period: 1990 - 1995

Position/Title: Lecturer in Materials Science, Tutor & Demonstrator in Physics (casual &/or part-time)

Role:

q       While as Lecturer main duties involved the instruction of 1st year science and engineering students in the field of Materials Science and Physics. The duties comprised of setting the learning outcomes, exam writing, tutorials, assignment setting, direction junior staff members and various other duties concerning field of materials science.

q       While as Tutor / Demonstrator the instruction of science studies in the area of experimentation, relevant marking of tests, assignments and laboratories. Subjects include Physics for Engineers, Science for Nurses and General Science.

Achievement: Teaching students across broad subject areas in the field of materials science, the instruction of 1st year University students in a complex field.

 

Community & Evening Colleges (Australia)

Organisation: Bondi Community & Evening Colleges

Period: 1998 - 2000

Position/Title: Teacher in Computing (casual)

Role:

q       Instructor for the following subjects, Introductory Computing (PC and Macintosh), MS Word and Windows 98.

Achievement: Successfully taught the above subjects to students with little or no computing experience.

 

International Institutes

 

Organisation: UNIPREP - UNSW (Indonesia)

Period: 1999

Position/Title: Lecturer in Physics, Mathematics and Computing Studies (full time, contract)

Role:

q       Lecturer for the college, in the capacity of Computing, Mathematics and Physics instructor.

Achievement: Developed and delivered the current physics program at the college during 1999.

 

Organisation: Higher Colleges of Technology (United Arab Emirates)

Period: 1997 - 1998

Position/Title: Lecturer in Computing - Al Ain Men’s College (full-time, contract)

Role:

q       Lecturer for the college, in the capacity of Computing and Mathematics instructor, for the Computing and Information Processing Department.

Achievement: Instructed students from another culture & country in technically demanding fields.

 

Computing Experience:

IT Expertise:

·         Database Management Systems

·         SQL Programming / Oracle 8i (along with PL/SQL)

·         Systems Analysis and Design Techniques (OO, UML)

·         Project Management

·         Expert Systems (Knowledge Based Information Systems)

·         Visual Basic Programming

 

Below is a short summary of the applications that I have worked on during the period of 1985 – present; this includes contracts for both public organisations (ANSTO, UNSW) and private firms (Austel Data Services, WUC) in Sydney. Using these systems in the role of systems operator, programmer, systems administrator or combinations of such). Mainly the setting up of and then managing of relational database systems on various operating environments, using a range of different relational database applications whilst training either internal clients or students.

Software: Oracle 7 - 8, Rational Rose, Microsoft Office, Netscape, MS Project, Lotus suite, Borland suite of software, Paradox, Claris, Dbase IV.

Environment: Macintosh, Windows XX, and UNIX, MS-DOS.

Hardware: IBM compatible, Macintosh, PC boards and add on’s (multimedia, modems, networking cards, etc).

Programming: PL/SQL, SQL, Visual Basic, Java 1.3, Ingres, Postgres, QUEL, Fortran, Batch Programming.

 

Activities and Sports:

Enjoy the following: rugby, tennis, cycling, jogging, skiing, bushwalking, traveling and reading.

 

Professional and Other Memberships:

Member of Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers 1991- present

Reservist for Royal Australian Army, 8th Regiment Signals Lidcombe 1995 - 1997

 

Referees:

Mr. Anthony Borger

Blacktown TAFE College (Head Math / Computing Teacher)

Tel:       (02) 92081810 (Work); Fax: (02) 9830 4505 (Work); Tel: (02) 94115438 (Home)

Email:   Anthony.Borger@tafensw.edu.au

 

Mr. Bob Green

Blacktown TAFE College (Head Science Teacher)

Tel:  (02) 9830 4520 (Work); Fax: (02) 9830 4505 (Work); Tel: (02) 9896 3260 (Home)

 

Mr. Warwick Young

Hornsby TAFE College (Head of Science / Computing Studies)

Tel: (02) 9476 7569 (Work); Fax: (02) 9477 6697 (Work); Tel: (02) 9744 0654 (Home)

Email:   warwick.young@tafensw.edu.au

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