Kevin Johnston :: Curriculum Vitae

2001-Present | UCT Cape Town, RSA

Senior Lecturer & Head of Department- Information Systems

• Head of Department of Information Systems from January 2006. Entails providing vision and academic leadership, financial management, people management, student management, and process management of the department. Allocation of teaching, supervision and administrative and managerial responsibilities. Managing all course regulations, preparations, delivery, evaluation, and quality assurance. Administration of student selection, enrolment and throughput. Provide advice to staff and students.
• Member of Senate, Deans Advisory Committee, Commerce Transformation Committee, Integrated Student Information System (ISIS) Committee and various selection committees.
• Developed and presented INF1002F/H/S (Foundations of IS) in 2007/8.
• Attended colloquium called by Minister of Education on Information and Communication Technology Education and Training and the Production of Graduates in March 2007
• Developed and presented INF4014W (IS Honours) in 2006.
• Installed first Head of Department (HoD) DFAQ site at UCT 2006.
• Co-Developed and presented INF303W (ICT Project Management) in 2005.
• Developed, coordinated and presented INF204F(IT in Business) in 2005.
• Co-Developed and presented INF414W (IS Honours) in 2004-5.
• Developed, co-ordinated and presented ICT Management & Project Management modules to Post Graduate Diploma students (2003-2008).
• Supervising student Systems Development projects (2003- ).
• Supervising student research (2003- ).
• Developed, co-ordinated and presented INF311F (ICT Management & ICT Project Management) (2003-4).
• Developed, co-ordinated & presented INF312F (ICT Management) 2002.

2001-Present | Independent Cape Town, RSA

Consultant -ICT

• Developed and presented two courses to Social Housing Foundation (SHF), and advised on Information Architecture in 2007
• Building Industry Bargaining Council - conducted research and presented paper on IS development, expenditure and staff in 2005
• Lesotho Electricity Corporation - conducted Situational Analysis on ICT, then developed an ICT Strategic Plan in 2004
• Lecturer at University of Stellenbosch Business School (2004-2008).
• Firm of attorneys - legal case involving competence of IT staff (2003).
• Lecturer on AIM course at GSB(2002-3).
• Lecturer on GSB MBA programme (2002-3). Updated MBA course (2002).
• BoEBank - on IT costing models and IT aspects of a building project (2001).

1988-2001 | BoE Cape Town, RSA

General Manager - IT

• Responsible for IT planning, staffing, purchasing, installations, maintenance and finance.
• Member of BoE ISPC (IS Planning Committee) - chaired by MD
• Member of Application Selection & Implementation committees
• Kept IT expenditure within 5% of budget, and 85% of IT projects on target.
• Introduced Internet-1994, Imaging&Workflow-1996, Transactional Web site-1997, Video Conferencing-1997, RAS-1998, UM-1999, ESS-2000.

1984-1988 | Lifegro Sandton, RSA

IT Production Manager

• Managed Operators, Help Desk, and Change Control.
• Was responsible for IT planning, change management, disc space management, and maintenance and development of all life administration applications from 1986-1987
• Managed Lifegro’s network of over 50 Branches throughout RSA.
• Reduced number of outstanding network incidents from 20 to 2 per day.

1983-1984 | Liberty Life Johannesburg, RSA

Senior Systems Analyst

• Converted ‘Consultant Master’ system from Assembler to Natural.
• Investigated, designed, and implemented new ‘Consultant Master’ application with larger key - over 900 programs and 388 JCL procedures were converted.

1981-1983 | De Beers Botswana Orapa, Botswana

Systems Analyst

• Converted SAS Ore Depletion System to run on Fortran.
• Analysed, designed, wrote and implemented a Personnel Information Application.

1979-1980 | Wilson-Rowntree East London, RSA

Programmer

• Wrote all the on-line programs for Distribution Application.
• Designed Schema and subschemas for a Marketing application using IDMS.

1979-1979 | Hudson Park High East London, RSA

Mathematics and Science Teacher

• Prepared and taught lessons to standard 6, 7 and 8’s in Maths and Science.

1978-1978 | Woodridge College Port Elizabeth, RSA

Mathematics Master

• Prepared and taught Maths lessons to standards 6-10.