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Appendix 'A' EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

SECONDARY EDUCATION:-

# 1967-1972 HURSTVILLE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL.
Subjects studied to the School Certificate but not continued after that were - metalwork, woodwork, music, technical drawing, geography.

Higher School Certificate results - 1st level in both Art and Science (Physics and Chemistry). A Pass in General Studies, 2nd. level Full Mathematics and 2nd. level English. These results gave me a Matriculation to all Australian Universities.

COLLEGE EDUCATION:-

Diploma In Art,1973-1976

1973 1st. year Kogarah Tech. I covered Lettering, Photography, Silk Screen Printing, 2D & 3D Design, Drawing (still life, figure theory and technical), Painting Methods and Media, Composition, Sculpture, Art History.

1974 2nd. year The National Art School, East Sydney Technical College. Majored in Sculpture and covered casting(plaster etc.) modeling (clay etc.)carving and construction work. Design, Drawing etc..

1975 3rd. year Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, School of Art, Burton Street. (The college was uprated to a C.A.E. and the administration transferred to Alexander Mackie.) Additional subject covered in this year included Bronze Casting, Environmental Studies, Art & Society, Lithography.

1976 4th. and final year A.M.C.A.E. School of Art , The Rock, and Cumberland Street. Additional subjects taken Electro Media.(see appendix 'C' for computing experience during this period)

At the end of 1976 I graduated with a Diploma In Art having obtained 573 Credit Points (552 being the requirement for the award of a diploma.

Bachelor Of (Visual) Arts Conversion,1984

Sydney College of Advanced Education, Albion Avenue Paddington.

SHORT COURSES : SEMINARS & CONFERENCES. :-

# Simultaneously to my under-graduate studies I attended a series of lectures by Prof. Don Herbison-Evans at the BASSER Department of Computer Science, Sydney Uni. on 'Computer Graphic Techniques and Theory' as well as 'Fortran IV'

# After working at ATN7 I did the 'Introduction to 16mm. Film' course ran by The Open Programme of The Australian Film and T.V. School' North Ryde.

External Studies while at The Australian Bureau of Statistics:-

# Attendance of GRAPHICS83 , AUSGRAPH86
Lectures on Computer Graphics Theory & Techniques.
# B.A. Conversion giving me a BACHELOR of (VISUAL) ARTS
# 'Training Skills Course' from National Trainer Training Services

Courses done at the Australian Bureau of Statistics:-

STAFF TRAINING
Induction Course, Clerical Skills Course, Statistical Skills Course, Supervision Course, On the Job Training Course, Adhoc Course for Production of Overhead Transparencies

COMPUTER SERVICES TRAINING
M200 Overview Course & T.S.S, Natural, Jol, Nedi & C.F.P, P.F.D. A.B.S. Network (FACOM Course),
User Documentation (Central Office Course)
SAS & SAS/GRAPH (Video Courses), Data Analysis, Micro Introduction

 DELTAK COURSES ON
Structured Cobol Programming, Jackson Method, ADABAS
C Introduction, UNIX Overview

Course organized by The Road And Traffic Authority :-

COMPUTER SERVICES TRAINING SECTION
ORACLE For Developers (1) @ Oracle,
SQL*Plus, SQL*Forms, SQL*ReportWriter

Fujitsu AI Courses @ Fujitsu
Lisp Basics, Lisp Programming,
Eshell/X (Lisp Based Expert System Shell)
ES/SDEM (Expert System Development Methodology)
UTS Fundamentals (UNIX) @ Fujitsu

NOVEL Netware Lan Supervisor's Course @ Amicron
C Programming Course (in-house)

X Windows System Course (in-house)

EXTERNAL STUDIES SINCE JOINING R.T.A. :-
# Attendance of AUSGRAPH89
Lecture on Graphics User Interface Standards.

# "Introduction to Hypertext and Hypermedia" at The Key Centre for Advanced
Computing Sciences, University of Technology Sydney

# "Expert Systems Design Course" by John Debenham, at
Insearch Ltd., University of Technology Sydney

# "User Interface Design" by Kerry Szabo, at BKX Australia Pty. Ltd

# Attendance of IJCAI91, Lectures on Artificial Inteligence.

# "Introduction to IconAuthor", PPS Technology.

# "Contract Management" course ran by the former Purchasing Development Center of the Department of Administrative Services.

# "Project Management" Kepner Tregoe

 

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