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          <p>I have extensive experience in course design, academic leadership, and student welfare. At the ANU, I redesigned COMP2120 (Software Engineering) into a modern, group project-oriented course where every student contributes a pull request to a large open-source project. In 2025, I redesigned the COMP3500/4500/8715 TechLauncher capstone course for 400+ students, introducing a scalable time-boxed pod model that achieved a perfect 100% student satisfaction score. I also created SWEN 325 (Software Development for Mobile Platforms) from scratch at VUW in 2018, which received a perfect 1.0 teaching evaluation. At VUW I reinvented the COMP 361 Algorithms course in 2014, increasing enrolments tenfold, and rescued the SWEN 302 Agile Methods course, significantly improving its evaluation scores. I consistently achieved "overall effectiveness" scores around 1.6 out of 5 (with 1 being the best) across 50+ courses over two decades.</p>

          <p>Beyond the classroom, I served as Associate Dean (Students) at VUW's Faculty of Engineering (2021 - 2022), overseeing approximately 2,000 students. In this role I created a Student Engagement System to proactively monitor student progress and centralised assessment scheduling across the faculty. I also served as Program Director for Software Engineering (2017 - 2018), leading the first major overhaul of the SE programme in eight years, and as Program Director (Science) in 2019, where I led the introduction of VUW's postgraduate AI &amp; Machine Learning programme. At the ANU, I served as Associate Director of HDR for the School of Computing (2023 - 2025), managing admissions, supervision, and progress monitoring for over 200 PhD students. I have also served as Postgraduate Coordinator at VUW (2012 - 2016), chairing PhD proposal meetings and managing all thesis student matters across an interdisciplinary research programme.</p>
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          <li><a href="https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/comp2100">COMP2100/COMP6442 Semester 2 2026 (Software Construction)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://comp.anu.edu.au/TechLauncher/">COMP3500/4500/8715 Tech Launcher Capstone Project Semester 1 2026</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://comp.anu.edu.au/TechLauncher/">COMP3500/4500/8715 Tech Launcher Capstone Project 2025</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp2120/lectures/">COMP2120 Semester 2 2024 (Software Engineering)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2023/course/comp2120">COMP2120 Semester 2 2023 (Software Engineering)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2022/course/comp2120">COMP2120 Semester 2 2022 (Software Engineering)</a></li>
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        <div class="list-group-title">Victoria University of Wellington (2006 - 2022)</div>
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          <li><a href="https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2022T1/">COMP 261 T1 (Course Coordinator Only) 2022 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Courses/COMP103_2021T3/">COMP 103 T3 2021 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2021T1/">COMP 261 T1 (Second Half) 2021 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Courses/COMP361_2021T1/">COMP 361 T1 (First Half) 2021 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Courses/COMP103_2020T3/">COMP 103 T3 (All, Shared with Morgan) 2020 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
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          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN325_2020T2/">SWEN 325 T2 (Weeks 2, 3, 4) 2020 (Software Development for Mobile Platforms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN325_2019T2/">SWEN 325 T2 2019 (Software Development for Mobile Platforms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN325_2018T2/">SWEN 325 T2 2018 (Software Development for Mobile Platforms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP361_2017T2/">COMP 361 T2 2017 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2017T1/">COMP 261 T1 (Course Coordinator Only) 2017 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN221_2017T1/">SWEN 221 T1 (Course Coordinator Only) 2017 (Software Development)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP103_2016T2/">COMP 103 T2 (Course Coordinator Only) 2016 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP361_2016T2/">COMP 361 T2 2016 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2016T1/">COMP 261 T1 (9 of 12 weeks) 2016 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP361_2015T2/">COMP 361 T2 2015 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN302_2015T2/">SWEN 302 T2 (Essays and Course Coordinator Only) 2015 (Agile Methods)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/ENGR123_2015T2/">ENGR 123 T2 (Labs Coordinator Only) 2015 (Engineering Mathematics with Logic and Statistics)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2015T1/">COMP 261 T1 (First Eight Weeks) 2015 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP361_2014T2/">COMP 361 T2 2014 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN302_2014T2/">SWEN 302 T2 (Coordinator Only) 2014 (Agile Methods)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2014T1/">COMP 261 T1 (Second Half) 2014 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN223_2014T1/">SWEN 223 T1 (First Half) 2014 (Software Engineering Analysis)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN430_2014T1/">SWEN 430 T1 (First Half) 2014 (Compiler Engineering)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP303_2012T2/">COMP303 T2 2012 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN430_2012T2/">SWEN430 T2 2012 (Compiler Engineering)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP103_2012T1/">COMP103 T1 2012 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP303_2011T2/">COMP303 T2 2011 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2011T2/">COMP261 T2 (Last 8 weeks) 2011 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN430_2011T2/">SWEN430 T2 (First 4 weeks) 2011 (Compiler Engineering)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN423_2011T1/">SWEN423 T1 (First 2 weeks and last 4 weeks) 2011 (OO Paradigms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP303_2010T2/">COMP303 T2 2010 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP261_2010T2/">COMP261 T2 (2nd half) 2010 (Algorithms and Data Structures)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/SWEN430_2010T2/">SWEN430 T2 (1st half) 2010 (Compiler Engineering)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP303_2009T2/">COMP303 T2 (2nd half) 2009 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP431_2009T2/">COMP431 T2 (2nd half) 2009 (Compilers)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP304_2009T1/">COMP304 T1 (1st half) 2009 (Programming Languages)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Courses/COMP462_2009T1/">COMP462 T1 (1st half) 2009 (Object-Oriented Paradigms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP303/2008T2/">COMP303 T2 2008 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP431/2008T1/">COMP431 T1 2008 (Compilers)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP103/2007T2/">COMP103 T2 (2nd half) 2007 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP471/2007T2/">COMP471 T2 (1st half) 2007 (Special Topic: Compiler Technologies)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP462/2007T1/">COMP462 T1 (1st half) 2007 (Object-Oriented Paradigms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP103/2006T3/">COMP103 T3 (2nd half) 2006 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP103/2006T2/">COMP103 T2 (2nd half) 2006 (Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/private/courses/COMP101/2005T3/">COMP101 T3 2005 (Introduction to Dynamic Web Development)</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/private/courses/INET101/2004T3/">INET101 T3 2004 (Introduction to Internet Technology)</a></li>
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          <li><a href="./kyoto2020/">Kyoto University Graduate Seminars in Winter 2019/2020</a></li>
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