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Computer
Facilities Manager, Roseworthy Campus, University of Adelaide
I am often the student’s first port of call when they have a computing related problem! I give advice and help on colour printing, digital photography and scanning for student projects, disk problems data storage, and packages such as word, excel, power point help. I also install software around the campus.
I have a Graduate Diploma in Applied Remote Sensing, undertaken as a mature age student from the Adelaide University. I now teach students both Remote Sensing interpretation and Geographic Information Systems techniques at the Waite and North Terrace campuses and at the Roseworthy campus I develop and give lectures and practicals on map and aerial photograph interpretation and basic surveying techniques. I enjoy getting out into the field to check on the accuracy of information displayed in the images on the computer screen. Not all teaching can be undertaken indoors. I am also jointly responsible for updating and maintaining the faculty web pages.
Before joining the university I started my working life by completing an apprenticeship in electronics at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and then spent the next 10 years in exploration geophysics as chief technician maintaining electronic field equipment used in often remote parts of Australia to detect and target mineral ore bodies.
I’ve been at the University for quite a while in various jobs. I spent 22 years in the Geology Department of the Adelaide University providing geophysics, remote sensing and computing support for staff and students at the city campus before moving to the Roseworthy campus a little over 5 years ago.
