Experience

Associate Profess and Program Director of Information Technology (2021)

  • Organization: Torrens University Australia
  • Job Title: Associate Professor and PD of IT
  • Duties and Contributions:
    • Managing Master of Information Technology, Master of Software Engineering (AI), Master of Software Engineering (Cloud), Bachelor of Software Engineering (AI and Cloud), and Master of Digital Transformation and Creative Intelligence
    • Development of new Bachelor of Information Technology
    • Greatly increasing student retention rates and student satisfaction rates.
    • Research leadership in machine learning (AI) in Cybersecurity and Smart Digital Infrastructure (Smart Cities).

Associate Professor and Associate Head of School of IT and Engineering (2018- 2021)

  • Organization: Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), Sydney, Australia
  • Job Title: Associate Head of the School of Information Technology and Engineering
  • Duties and Contributions:
    • Managing 60 lecturers and 1100 higher education students
    • Development of new courses in Data Analytics, Cybersecurity and Software Engineering Technologies
    • Leadership in accreditations with TEQSA and ACS (Australian Computing Society)
    • Greatly increased student enrolments and retention rates
    • Greatly improved QILT (SES and GOS) survey outcomes

Discipline Head of ICT Studies (2010-2015)

  • Organization: Australian Defence (Citadel) Academy, Parramatta
  • Job Title: Discipline Head of ICT Studies
  • Duties and Contributions:
    • Management of 20 lecturers and 800 students over multiple campuses
    • Course development in system analysis and design/computer networking/information security/software development/machine learning
    • Nominated ‘teacher of the year’ for 2010, 2011, 2012
    • Greatly improved student satisfaction ratings.

University Senior Lecturer in Information Technology (2002-2009)

  • Organization: University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
  • Job Title: Senior Lecturer
  • Duties and Contributions:
    • Management of 40 lecturers and tutors over 800 students
    • Leadership in University re-accreditation with external industry bodies
    • Leadership in new course developments in Data Mining and Network Security
    • Research group leader in machine learning for image processing
    • ‘Best teaching contribution award’ in 2004-2005
    • Publication of over 40 articles in international journals and conferences
    • Successful supervision of 5 Ph.D. and 20 Masters students
    • Chief investigator of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discover Project with over 500,000 dollars in research grants

Educational Accreditation Consultant

As a professional education consultant, I have consulted, advised, designed, and developed more than 19 higher education programs to full accreditations in Australia.