WORK HISTORY (Interspersed with overseas travel)

Briefly my EFL teaching history is:

1996 Jinan, Shang Dong provinve, China. High School. Teaching English, math and science to 13-17yo students. Jinan, China.

o        Preparation and teaching classes in English and Mathematics to students in various age groups

1998 Kaushiung, Taiwan Private institute cram school English , students 5-13yo and university students and adults.

1999 Taipei, Taiwan : a large private institute. Mainly elementary age students.

Inter Lab Language Institute/ Hua Institute Taiwan/ Giraffe Institute Taiwan/ Jinan China

1999-2002 South Korea : Various private institutes around South Korea, all age groups and levels of English.

2002 Osaka, Japan EVI ( English Village International) All ages

2003 Korea, Seoul 6 months all age groups

2003 (Aug) 2004(June) - Yangzhou, one middle school, (no. 2 in Yizheng), and one college position, Yangzhou Polytechnic college. : each for a term.

2004 (Nov)- 2005 Jan) Saudi Arabia, King Faisal School, elementary section being restructured, I finished on 12 Jan 2005.

2005 Jan  -2005 June 30           - Czech Republic, Karlove Vary, Prvni Gymnasium, teaching students 16-19 years old majoring in English. Six month contract, expiring end of June, but able to leave earlier if requested.

3 July 2005-March 2006 – Cheonan, South Korea teaching students 3-14yo in a private institute (Hagwon)

March 2006- March 2007 EPIK  program. Teaching at  2 middle schools and 3 elementary schools in Nonsan, Korea

April 2007- December 2007 Jung Chul institute teaching children 6-15 as well as one off site adult class at City Hall in Gwang-yang, Korea

January 2008-July 2009 Working on a family business venture in Brisbane, Australia

August 2009 – October 2009  Chengdu Shude Union School, Chengdu, Sichuan province, China

 Teaching Mathematics and Physics .

September  2009 - Jan  2011 Oxford Kingdom Bilingual school. Teaching AP and A levels Physics and chemistry for 18 months.

Feb 2011- Aug 2011 - Bacui Beijing Bilingual school, teaching A levels mathematics.

Sep 2012-present  Shangdong experimental high school - teaching AP  physics and mathematics.

March 1988-1999 POSITIVE TUITION

Director, Principal and Head Tutor

o        Operation and management of Tutoring College for Senior Secondary and University level students

o        Consultation and advising of new pupils

o        Tutoring various subjects including technical modules

Non-teaching positions:

Sept. 1987-Feb.1988 PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL Brisbane

Temporary Scientist Programmer

o        Provided user support of various departments within hospital for software and hardware oriented problems

o        Development of dBaseIII+ for Stock Control System and reporting program for the Microcomputer Survey System

o        Systems used: Sperry and compatible computers using dBaseIII+, MS-DOS and WordPerfect

June 1985-July 1987 HERALD & WEEKLY TIMES Ltd

Analyst/Programmer

o        Development and maintenance of Payroll, Subscription and Stores system as member of a three person team

o        Installation of Cool Fixed Assets System (COFAS)

o        Testing and implementation of system

o        Responsible for user training and writing new programs

o        Systems used: Burroughs B3900’s, B4900’s using COBOL (ANSI 74, COBOL 68), WFL and LINC

Oct. 1984-March 1985 ANZ BANKING GROUP

Analyst/Programmer

o        Development of Leasing System for Esanda Finance as part of four person team

o        Maintenance to rectify production problems and modification of existing systems including 60% batch processing and 40% Real Time interactive applications

o        Systems used: IBM S38, RPGIII, JCL and S38 Utilities

June 1984-Sept.1984 NT COMPUTER SERVICES CENTRE

Contract Analyst/Programmer

o        Maintenance and modification of existing systems for on-line sites

o        Systems used: DG Mini Computers using COBOL, ICEDIT, CRTEDIT & JCL

Dec. 1983-May 1984 DEPT. of JUSTICE (NZ) –Darwin

Analyst/Programmer

o        Liasing between ICL contracting team and management in fines collection division

o        Systems used: ICL DRS 20 using Basic  

Aug. 1982-June 1983  POST OFFICE Wellington NZ

Analyst/Programmer

o        Systems conversion from ICL mainframe to FACOM for Yellow Pages system, as part of 6 person team

o        Writing testing specifications, correcting source code, compiling and testing of programs converted

o        Consisted of 190 programs in COBOL or ICL Assembler

o        Development of programs for Postal Stamp sub-system

Jan. 1982-July 1982 P&O NZ

Contract Analyst/Programmer

o        Maintenance duties for shipping related systems

o        Systems used: IBM 370, MVS environment using PL/1 and Easytrieve

Jan.1981-May 1982 EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NZ

Teacher in Training

Jan. 1980-Dec.1980 WELLINGTON WATERBEDS Ltd

Manager/Partner

o        Management, administrative and retail duties

March 1979-Oct. 1979 CITICORP Sydney

Programmer/Analyst

o        Development and implementation of Common Reference Files System - Change from IBM to Burroughs mainframe

o        Systems used: Burroughs B6800 using COBOL, CANDE & DMSII

Feb. 1978- Nov. 1978 CHALLENGE CORPORATION

Trainee Programmer

o        Developed Finance Lending System within small team

o        Programming and testing from specifications supplied by systems analyst