Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement

• Sep 2021 - Present

Head of Quality Enhancement

• Sep 2020 - Jun 2021

• Responsibilities: working under the supervision of the Pro-Rector for Education, drawing up the quality enhancement strategy of the university; creating custom Neptun reports and working with statistical data to help reporting to ranking agencies; contributing to international accreditation projects (EQUIS, AACSB, etc.); managing quality assurance and enhancement-related projects (assurance of learning, teaching excellence, etc.); managing annual programme reports; fulfilling data requests from the student feedback database; managing regular and ad hoc data collections (student feedback, first-year student survey, graduate survey, DLHE, etc.). • Major achievements: designing the data content and template for annual programme monitoring reports; designing a Python script to bulk create annual programme monitoring report templates; introducing agile methodology in the operation of the quality enhancement team; creating BA/BSc and MA/MSc student personas based on the cluster analysis of the first-year student survey.

Mid-Level Data Analyst

• Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

• Responsibilities: working as a member of the Procurement Analytics as a Service Team, carrying out big-data backend ETL tasks (IBM Db2). • Major achievements: creating a Python script to flag a range of data inconsistencies (duplicate entries, missing data, pattern mismatch, etc.) in big-data-volume input CSV files. • Responsibilities: working as a member of the Procurement Analytics as a Service Team, carrying out big-data backend ETL tasks (IBM Db2). • Major achievements: creating a Python script to flag a range of data inconsistencies (duplicate entries, missing data, pattern mismatch, etc.) in big-data-volume input CSV files.

Head of Quality Enhancement

• Jun 2015 - Jul 2020

• Responsibilities: by linking institutional databases, providing data analyses and visualizations with a view to assisting top-level decision-making; managing institutional and programme-level accreditation with accrediting bodies in Hungary (Hungarian Accreditation Committee) and abroad (British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education, European Council for Business Education, Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs); managing internal and external moderation of assessment at the school; managing internal quality assurance and enhancement processes (periodic reviews with validating partners in the UK, completing internal and external self-evaluation reports, collecting and analyzing student and faculty satisfaction surveys, etc.); overseeing the work of the Quality Assurance Officer and the Accreditation Officer. • Major achievements: streamlining the internal and external moderation process by moving it online with the help of a BPM software, successfully completed the periodic review and the revalidation of our programmes with The University of Buckingham, successfully completed accreditation with the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education.

Professor

• Feb 2008 - Jul 2020

• Courses taught: Presentation Skills (BA), Communication for Business (BA), Academic Writing (EAP, BA/BSc), Written English for Business (BA), Team Challenges (BA), Social Environment of Business (BA), and Research methodology (BA/MSc). (Medium of instruction: English, all degree programs accredited by Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom and the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom.)• Participated in the development of the new Study Skills module as a materials designer. Developed the new Academic Skills modules. Presently acting as the Internal Moderator for Cross-Cultural Management and the Module Leader for Academic Skills. • Working 0.5 FTE as a Guest Lecturer between Feb 2008 – Aug 2011; working 1.0 FTE as a Lecturer since Sep 2011; promoted to Senior Lecturer in Mar 2015; promoted to Professor in Jan 2020.

Senior Debate Consultant

• Nov 2010 - Sep 2013

• Responsibilities: offered consulting on debating methodology, adjudication, and teacher/adjudicator training for the Szóval?! secondary school debate competition, co-funded by the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. • Responsibilities: offered consulting on debating methodology, adjudication, and teacher/adjudicator training for the Szóval?! secondary school debate competition, co-funded by the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Debate Consultant

• Apr 2000 - Aug 2013

• Responsibilities: syllabus design, materials development, and teaching (12x50 min. per week) at the NSP Pre-Academic Summer Program in Istanbul, Turkey.• Debating and critical thinking workshops: International Civic Education Project Conference, Budapest, 2000; OSF/FCO Chevening Scholars’ Mid-Year Conference (previously: Open Society Institute Network Scholarship Programmes Mid-Year Conference), Bath, 2003; Nottingham, 2004; Durham, 2008 and 2010; Leicester, 2009; Oxford, 2011, 2012, 2013. • Responsibilities: syllabus design, materials development, and teaching (12x50 min. per week) at the NSP Pre-Academic Summer Program in Istanbul, Turkey.• Debating and critical thinking workshops: International Civic Education Project Conference, Budapest, 2000; OSF/FCO Chevening Scholars’ Mid-Year Conference (previously: Open Society Institute Network Scholarship Programmes Mid-Year Conference), Bath, 2003; Nottingham, 2004; Durham, 2008 and 2010; Leicester, 2009; Oxford, 2011, 2012, 2013.

Lecturer

• Feb 2001 - Jan 2012

• Courses taught: Oral debates in the media (BA Media specialization), Speaking skills and vocabulary development through debating (MA), Developing critical thinking and presentation skills through debating (MA), Academic skills (EAP, BA/MA), Applied linguistics (BA), Psycholinguistics (MA), Translation studies (BA Translation Studies specialization/MA), and Consecutive interpreting (English-Hungarian, Hungarian-English, BA). (Medium of instruction: English.)• Extra-curricular activity: training in debating for the debate clubs operating at the School of English and American Studies.

Localization Specialist

• Jan 2007 - Aug 2008

• Responsibilities: Translating technical and end-user documentation, error messages, etc. for IBM products. • Responsibilities: Translating technical and end-user documentation, error messages, etc. for IBM products.

Teacher trainer / E-learning consultant

• Sep 2006 - Feb 2008

• Held presentations for EFL teachers on applications of ICT elements and CALL in the EFL classroom (WebEnglish project). • Held presentations for EFL teachers on applications of ICT elements and CALL in the EFL classroom (WebEnglish project).

Item writer / TEFL / Assessor

• Nov 2005 - Feb 2008

• Involved in writing and grading tests for the B1, B2, and C1 level accredited internal language examinations of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. • Involved in writing and grading tests for the B1, B2, and C1 level accredited internal language examinations of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

English Language Teacher

• Sep 2003 - Jun 2006

• Taught English as a foreign language (4.5 hours/week, starting from Sep 2004, 9 hours/week). • Taught English as a foreign language (4.5 hours/week, starting from Sep 2004, 9 hours/week).