Experience

I would like to be able say my history is littered with bizarre adventures and life on the street but in truth it’s pretty standard stuff so we’ll focus on my work experience here.

August 2023 – Current

Te Aratai College – Digital Technologies Teacher

Responsibilities:

  • Year 7 Digital Technologies
  • Year 8 Digital Technologies
  • Year 9 Digital Technologies
  • Year 10 Digital Technologies
  • Year 11 Computer Science
  • Year 12 Practical Computing
  • Year 13 Practical Computing
  • Year 9 Hard Materials
  • Year 10 Hard Materials

January 2022 – August 2023

Christchurch Libraries – Learning Specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Delivering programmes within library
  • Creative Space / Maker Space
  • Secondary education links

January 2021 – December 2021

Rolleston College – Digital Technologies Teacher

Responsibilities:

  • Teacher in Charge of Digital Technologies
  • Year 10 Digital Technologies
  • Year 11 Creative Design: project based
  • Year 12 Creative Design: project based
  • Year 12 Programming: project based
  • Year 13 Digital Technologies: project based

January 2020 – December 2020

ZYPE Design – back to self-employment

Responsibilities:

  • Design Fellow at the UC School of Product Design
  • CNC Fabrication

January 2016 – December 2019

Burnside High School – Digital Technologies Teacher

Responsibilities:

  • Year 9 Digital Technologies
  • Year 10 Digital Technologies
  • Year 12 Digital Technologies: Media
  • Year 12 Digital Technologies: Programming
  • Year 13 Digital Technologies: Programming
  • Year 13 Digital Technologies: Project based, multi-discipline, collaborative teaching

August 2015 – December 2015

The Mind Lab – EdTech Educator

Responsibilities:

  • Developing and delivering courses to primary students
  • Delivering courses to post-graduate students
  • Researching new technologies

January 2014 – August 2015

Linwood College

Responsibilities:

2015

  • Year 7 & 8: Digital Technologies
  • Year 9: Digital Technologies
  • Year 10: Digital Technologies
  • Year 11: Digital Technoloiges: Design and Media
  • Year 12: Digital Technoloiges: Design and Media
  • Year 13: Computer Science / Digital Technoloiges: Design and Media

2014

  • Year 10: Digital Technologies
  • Year 11: Computer Applications
  • Year 12: Computer Applications
  • Year 13: Computer Science
  • Year 7/8: Provisional Schools – Digital Technologies

December 2012 – january 2014

Catalyst IT – Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Software design
  • Branding and internal graphic design
  • Secondary education
  • Open source software training

July 2009 – December 2012

Egressive – Web Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Web design
  • Drupal theme development
  • Branding and internal graphic design
  • Customer training
  • Anything else that comes along

Jan 2009 – July 2009

Teacher – Hagley Community College

Responsibilities:

  • Year 10 ICT: developing course and teaching
  • Year 11 ICT: developing course and teaching
  • Year 12 ICT: developing course and teaching
  • Year 9 Graphics: developing course and teaching
  • Year 11 Graphics: developing course and teaching
  • Year 12 Graphics: developing course and teaching
  • Year 10 ICT: targeted learning class

Dec 2007 – Dec 2008

Teacher – Hagley Community College

Responsibilities:

  • Year 13 College of Computing: teaching and ongoing development
  • Year 10 ICT: developing course and teaching
  • Year 11 ICT: developing course and teaching
  • Year 12 ICT: developing course and teaching
  • Year 14 Web Business: implementation and daily management

Jan 2006 – Dec 2007

Teacher – Hagley Community College

Responsibilities:

  • Year 13 College of Computing: course outline, industry contact, teaching
  • Year 11 Graphics: teaching
  • Year 10 Graphics: teaching
  • Year 10 Materials Technology: teaching
  • Course overview and planning for Year 12 Graphics in 2007
  • Course overview and planning for Year 12 College of Computing in 2007

2005 – 2006

Teacher Training

This year is a branch out into a new industry and is all about completing a diploma in teaching at the NZ Graduate School of Education.

ZYPE – Director

ZYPE continues for my existing customers and those I have simply enjoyed working with while I train as a teacher.

August 2001 – 2005

ZYPE – Director

Responsibilities:

  • Interface/Interaction Design
  • Business Development

June 2000 – August 2001

Turing Solutions – Senior Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Web and interface design
  • Design process development
  • Design team development
  • Research and Development with regards to all related web technologies and interface design.

September 1998 – June 2000

Turing Solutions – Web Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Concept Design
  • Prototype Design
  • Site Construction
  • Page Layout
  • Project Management
  • Other Graphic Design: involving user interface design for non-web software and multimedia design

November 1997 – September 1998

Promethean Web Design – Web Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Concept Design
  • Prototype Design
  • Site Construction
  • Page Layout