2000: Achieved Microsoft Certified Professional status by private study. Preparing for MCSE exams.
1999: TAFE: Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment.
1998: Various short courses during 1998 on the pathway to an Austel telecommunications cabling licence, including Fibre and Cat-5 endorsement. Novell 4.11 CNA accelerated course.
1992 University of New England, NSW. Graduate diploma in education. Distinction average. Teaching methods in Junior and Senior Mathematics, and Junior Computing Studies.
1983 - 1989 University of Technology, Sydney. Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Major strand: computing and control. Minor strand: management.
1982 NSW Higher School Certificate, Sydney. Matriculated in the top 5% of the state.
1996 - Present. Forster High School. Classroom teacher in Junior Mathematics, and Junior and Senior Computing Studies to the 3 unit level. Computer coordinator. Extensive computer lab Mac and PC installation and trouble-shooting at a site with over 130 workstations and 1600 users. Unix and Apple-IP server network administration including internet services. Sole responsibility for installation and configuration of two FreeBSD servers running Apache, Squid and Bind (DNS). Technical lead for IP network design and administration. Samba, Appletalk routers, and Perl scripting for BSD unix sysadmin. Installation and configuration of NT fileserver using Samba on FreeBSD 3.1-Stable, including roving profiles and W95 system policies. Basic Lpd/LPRng spooler configuration. Basic firewall configuration. Basic FreeBSD NIS/NFS configuration. Some database programming in Filemaker and Visual Basic. Some Novell 4.11 admin. Some Red Hat and Caldera Linux installation. Active member of the technology committee, which has recently overseen the design and installation of a "whole school" network with switched 100B-Fx backbone. Desk-top publishing. Some staff development.
1993 - 1995 Camden High School. Classroom teacher in junior and senior mathematics and senior computing studies.
1991 Design engineer with SGS Australia (6 months). Design and detail drafting of a 7.5 tonne per hour roll crusher and associated conveyor belt systems for mechanical sampling plant. Design engineer with Hicks Engineering (3 months). Design of various lifting beams and crane mechanisms to Australian Standards. Preparation of tender submissions.
1990 Working holiday, British Columbia, Canada. Seasonal work as a carpenter's helper in Vancouver, as a deck hand on a salmon trawler around Prince Rupert, and a tree planter around Prince George.
1983 - 1989 State Rail Authority of NSW. Engaged as a
"Cadet Engineer". Experience included: