Irwin Brown
:: Career
2006 - Present: Associate Professor, Information Systems, University of
Cape Town
2004 - 2005: Snr Lecturer, Information Systems, University of Cape Town
2000 - 2003: Lecturer, Information Systems, University of Cape Town
Courses convened/lectured:
- Foundations of Information Systems
- Commercial Programming (Visual Basic)
- Introduction to Business Computing (Postgraduate)
- Part-time Honours (IS)
- Masters programme (Advanced Topics in IS, Research Methods)
Other major duties:
- Conduct and Supervise Research (Hons, Masters, PhD)
- Section Head, Service Courses (2006 - present)
- Chair, Faculty Transformation Committee (2006 - 2007)
1999 - 2000: Lecturer Information Systems, Polytechnic
of Namibia
Subjects lectured:
- Introduction to Programming (C language)
- Database Management Systems
- Software Engineering 1
- Operating Systems and Networks
Other duties:
- Course development;
- Web site maintenance;
- Lab maintenance (Windows NT)
(Polytechnic
of Namibia)
1997 - 1998: Sessional Academic, University
of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
Subjects tutored:
- Introduction to Computing Technology
- Facilitate case study discussions on IS topics
- Labs in Word, Excel, Basic HTML
(University
of Western Australia)
1995 - 1998: Sessional Academic, Curtin
University of Technology (Perth, Australia)
Subjects lectured:
- Personal Computing (Operating Systems, Utilities, Advanced Word and
Excel)
- Business Micro-Computing (Systems development "in the
small" e.g., with Word/Excel/Access
VBA and Visual Basic)
Subjects tutored (Enrichment sessions and Lab work):
- Introductory Information Systems
- Personal Computing
- Business Micro-Computing
- Systems Development (in a PC environment) - Postgraduate course
- Database Systems - Postgraduate course
(Curtin
University of Technology)
1993 - 1995: Full-time student, Curtin
University of Technology (Perth, Australia)
Studied:
(Curtin
University of Technology)
1990 - 1992: Section Manager Training, Posts and
Telecommunications Corporation (Zimbabwe)
Telecommunications duties:
- Manage External Plant Training (i.e., Cables, Subscriber Apparatus,
Local Network Planning)
- Conduct and develop courses in External Plant and First-line
Supervision.
Computing duties:
- MicroVAX LAN Administrator
- Provide service and support to LAN users
- Conduct training courses in contemporary operating systems and
application software
1989: Graduate Engineer, Posts and Telecommunications
Corporation (Zimbabwe)
Duties:
- Familiarisation and training in telecommunications operations
(switching, transmission, external plant, data services), equipment
assembly, research and development, project implementation.
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