About me
I am currently living and working in New Zealand, based in Karapiro Village in the central North Island.
My work revolves around running online workshops for the International Baccalaureate Organisation, marking examination material and advising on curriculum review.
I also advise on the use of Moodle, Drupal and other course or content management systems in education.
As these pages and my other sites demonstrate I can also design websites and pages using html, css, javascript and php.
We are also able to host and maintain websites for the small business or personal user at very modest rates.
Employment History
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 ICT in Key Stages 3 and 4 and staff training.
Adult Leader, Rotary Interact Club (student service group).
Led student/staff house-building trips to Cambodia
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 Centre,
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:
Responsibility for management of e-Learning application (Moodle LMS)
Associated course development/transition to e-Learning.
Developing Computing Level 4 and Online Education certificate programs.
Running hui and other investigations into Level 4 course viability.
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 and teaching ICT.
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.
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. Administering Online Teaching Environment (WICED) support site
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.
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.
Unemployed/Self-employed August 1985 – July 1986
Chief Geophysicist, Atlantic Resources Lda, Portugal February 1982 – July 1985
Geophysical Consultant, Atlas Geophysical Consultants, UK September 1980 – January 1982
Geophysical Consultant, Southern Geophysical Consultants, UK July 1977- August 1980
QC Seismologist, Geophysical Service International, UK July 1974 – June 1976
Education
B Sc Geology, London 1974
M Sc Marine Earth Science, London 1978
MA Education (Educational Management), Bath, UK 1996
Post-grad certificate Online Education, USQ, Australia 2002
Special Skills
Co-Author of IB Computer Science, IBID Press, a student textbook for IB Computer Science.
Webmaster of the leading website for IB Computer Science – http://www.ib-computing.com. Includes an implementation of the Moodle LMS and mediaWiki – used to deliver teacher-training workshops certified by IBO.
Familiar with installing and operating other Open Source applications such as Drupal and Elgg.
Competent programmer in Java, C++, PHP/MySQL, FORTRAN 77 etc.
Familiar with eXe e-Learning Editor – open source course material available, for example, at http://www.igcse-computing.com/lms_new/
Deputy Chief Examiner for Computer Science for the International Baccalaureate for 6 years 2001-2006; Acting Chief Examiner2007/08, leading workshops, both online and face-to-face, producing exam papers and principal moderator for dossiers.