My Detailed Bio

eLearning Consultant, Karapiro Village, New Zealand

July 2013 – present

• eLearning design, Moodle and Articulate Storyline
• Completed Managing the Moodle School
• Collaborating with HRDNZ and Academic Tribe on projects for RMIT, NZQA, Chisolm TAFE and Geneva Health.
• Developing online workshops for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Completed Certificate in Facilitating and Designing eLearning with Open Polytechnic

August 2008 – January 2010

• Designing, developing and running Online PD workshops for the IBO
• Senior examiner for IBO, examination papers, principal moderator

Director of eLearning, The Southport School, Australia

February 2010 – June 2013

• Responsible for setting up and administering Moodle and Mahara
• Responsible for staff PL in Educational Technology
• Managing Australian Government Quality Teaching Programme funded projects on ePortfolios, Staff Professional Learning and eLearning Leaders
• Strategic development of blended learning classroom pedagogy

Head of ICT, Dulwich College Beijing, Beijing, China

August 2006 – July 2008

• Setting up and developing the Virtual Learning Centre (Moodle LMS).
• Chair of the ICT strategic committee.
• Teaching Key Stages 3 and 4 and staff training.
• Adult Leader, Rotary Interact Club.
• Led student/staff/parent trip to build houses for Tabitha Cambodia in November 2007.

e-Learning Manager, Te Wananga o Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand

October 2004 – April 2006 Seconded to Te Tauihu o Nga Wananga as Project Manager, Resource Center,

• Designed structure, content of resource centre
• Ran training workshops for Tertiary educators
• Designing workflow for digital repository (DSpace)
• Preparation of online e-learning material (Moodle)

October 2004 to June 2005: Following secondment:

• Integrating the Resource Centre into the Wananga Development Plan.
• Responsibility for management of e-Learning application (Moodle LMS).
• Associated course development/transition to e-Learning.
• Evaluation of e-Learning capability.
• Developing Level 4 and Online Education certificate programs.

e-Learning Manager, Auckland International College, 85 Airedale Street Auckland, New Zealand

July 2003 – June 2005

• Responsible for developing the new IB Computer Science course.
• Teaching the ICT course to pre-IB students.
• Designed and developed support websites for students
• Specifying college e-learning platforms, admin package; development of reporting and assessment resources (Crystal Reports).
• Auditing and developing staff ICT training needs.
• Oversaw student-led Local and Global Activities fundraising and services group
• Part-time after January 2005.

Visiting Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand

July 2002 – July 2003

• Lecturing first and second year courses in computer programming (C++), systems architecture and digital electronics.
• Designed and developed support websites for above courses.
• Responsible for further developing the 7th form scholarship program.

Teacher i/c Lower School Computing, United World College of South East Asia, Singapore

August 1998 – June 2002

• Teaching IT in Grades 5 and 8, Electronics in Grades 6 and 7, IGCSE Computing in Grades 9 and 10, IB Computer Science in Grades 11 and 12. Outstanding external examination results.
• Responsible for curriculum development of IT in Lower School.
• Led Staff Training sessions in the use of IT.
• Led student expeditions to Southern Riau, Indonesia & Northern Thailand.

Director of Computing Services, St Julian’s School, Portugal

September 1989 –July 1998

• Teaching keyboard skills in Years 3 – 6, IT in Years 7 - 9, GCSE Computing in Years 10 and 11, IB *Computer Science and ITGS in Grades 12 and 13. Invited to become IB Examiner on strength of examination results.
• Responsible for all computer specification and purchasing in the school.
• Responsible for integration of IT into the middle school curriculum subject areas in line with the English National Curriculum requirements. Judged a success by ECIS accreditation team.
• Responsible for staff training in IT and set up the financially successful Cambridge IT adult training program.
• Chair of the Staff Association for 3 years, conducted critical salary negotiations with the board during a difficult period.
• Designed and developed the school’s networked Administration Database.

Researcher, Nat Lab Industrial Engineering and Technology, Portugal

August 1986 – August 1989

• Research/computer programming of mathematical models of fluidized bed combustion. Several peer-reviewed publications on this topic.
• Responsible to Director for EEC hydrocarbon project evaluations
• Utility/systems programming tasks.

Self-employed

August 1985 – July 1986

• Advertising copy (Commercial Union Insurance, TAP Air Portugal)
• Tutoring
• Technical report translation: Portuguese-English

Chief Geophysicist, Atlantic Resources Lda, Portugal

February 1982 – July 1985

• Working with the World Bank to promote West African prospects
• Seismic survey field supervision Senegal, Guinea Bissau
• Geophysical/seismic interpretation and mapping
• Technical report translation: French-English

Geophysical Consultant, Atlas Geophysical Consultants, UK

September 1980 – January 1982

Geophysical Consultant, Southern Geophysical Consultants, UK

July 1977- August 1980

• Working as a client representative on marine seismic surveys
• Worked for all of the oil majors at one time or another
• Worked North Sea, Western Approaches, Grand Banks, Hudsons Bay, West Africa, East Africa, Mediterranean, Taranaki, Venezuala, S China Sea

QC Seismologist, Geophysical Service International, UK

July 1974 – June 1976

• First real job out of college.