2. Curriculum Vitae

2.1. Employment History

• July 1999-: Employed by a university research centre, in electrical/computer engineering disciplines.
• Jan 1997- July 1998: Worked as an engineer for the centre on a number of projects. The two principle areas were:
  • Scheduling in manufacturing processes. This involved work in optimisation techniques, discrete-event simulation and C++ programming.
  • Induction Machine Control. This was the work that led up to the start of my masters degree project. The work was centred around logic design using EPLDs.
• 1995-: Part time university teaching. The subjects taught have been:
  • Laboratory demonstration and marking for first-year electronics subjects.
  • Tutoring and marking for the third-year digital signal processing course.
  • Tutoring and laboratory demonstration for the second-year digital logic and microprocessor systems course.
• 1993-1996: While studying as an undergraduate, I worked during the vacation periods, for nominally 12 weeks each year. The jobs involved:
  • Testing and component-level repair of electronic protection devices for the mining industry. It also included some PCB design, and construction of test systems.
  • Hardware and software development for embedded systems based on the intel 80186 and 8x51 microcontrollers.

2.2. Education

• 1998-: Masters in Engineering by Research in Electrical Engineering. The research subject in the control of induction machines. The focus is on developing a digital hardware implementation of a current controller. The following aspects have been addressed:
  • Controller design and simulation.
  • Parameter estimation.
  • EPLD design of the controller hardware, including a microcoded processor
  • Software implementation of the controller using a Texas Instruments TMS320C31 DSP.
  • Supporting software, including a microcode compiler and data logging facilities in C++.
• 1993-1996 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering. On completion, I graduated with first-class honours and a University Medal. Weighted average mark across the course was 95%.
• -1992: I completed High School with a TER (Tertiary Entrance Rank) of 99.95. This is a percentile rank of position in the NSW state canditature of 60,000 students.

2.3. Awards

• 1997: Awarded a University Medal.
• 1996: Placed first in the IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) undergraduate student paper contest.
• 1993: Awarded the Australian Student's Prize. (One of 500 awarded annually in Australia).
• 1992: Won a silver medal at the 1992 International Olympiad in Informatics (computer programming contest for high school students) in Bonn, Germany. I was placed first in Australia in the selection process.

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