Experience

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  Media Design School

  • New Zealand
  • Higher Education
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Senior Lecturer

    • Feb 2016 - Present

    Senior Lecturer in Media Design department. - Overseeing learning and development scaffolding for year 3 program in Bachelor of Media Design degree predominantly in Interactive Design, Motion Design and Graphic Design domain.- Advice and support the growth and tangible outcomes for Motion Design major projects in the degree program.- Developing learning andragogy through online and face-to-face (blended learning) classroom environment, and collaboration work/project with industry (agile learning).- Create opportunities within the programme for emerging technology and IoT devices.- Sourcing and facilitating industry panels for moderation, advisory board and guest speaker sessions.- Facilitate and supervise capstone projects - challenge digital design solutions that support a clear goal through user experience, speculative design, data storytelling and service design (student's research project, level 7).- Facilitation of national and international awards submission in the degree program, including curating required material and content, and supporting the communication and administration process.- Plan and organize end of year exhibitions and showreels, support marketing material and content for the degree programme such as external talks and workshops and teaching exchange.

  • Lecturer

    • Apr 2014 - Feb 2016

    Lecturer in Graduate Diploma of Creative Technologies, level 7 (VFX, Motion and Brand Design major). Responsibility within the department:-- Preparation and delivery of learning and assessment materials online and face-to-face.- Providing an innovative learning environment (blended learning) for students to meet learning outcomes.- Participate in reviewing assessment, moderations and course development.- Provide on-going student support such as facilitation of hardware and software support, exhibition organisation, presentation strategies and individual learning plans.- Departmental structure and administration such as marketing and positioning of the course, NZQA accreditation administration work, classrooms and class intake allocations, staff contact hours and scheduling, and running industry panellist invitations (external moderations and industry engagement).

  • Lecturer

    • Jan 2011 - Mar 2014

    Lecturer in Diploma in Digital Creativity, level 5. Develop department administrative and documentation structure. Implement teaching pedagogy, facilitate learning structure and assessment for courses such as :-- 3D design.- Character development and design.- Video and storytelling design.- Personal projects.- Board game development and branding.

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  NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

  • Milan, Lombardy, Italy

  • Blended Learning workshop

    • Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
    • Milan, Lombardy, Italy

    Eramus+ Staff Mobility teaching workshop as a representative of Media Design School faculty. Integration of Blended Learning using external third parties platforms for non-contact hours of learning support such as announcements, communication and informal one-on-one. Examples third parties platforms such as Slack or Discord channels and Trello or Miro boards as part of the learning support alongside blackboard and teams.

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  East China Normal University

  • Pudong,Shanghai

  • Guest Lecturer and degree programme External Moderator.

    • Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
    • Pudong,Shanghai

    Teaching Exchange programme by ECNU and Laureate Design Universities (LDU), Global Art & Design Academy (GADA).Re-design and delivery lesson plans, lectures, workshops and assessment for two papers in the School of Design degree programme, majoring in Digital Design - year 2 (level 5) 'Digital Compositing' and year 3 (level 6) 'Special Topic research'.The intention of the teaching exchange program was to introduced teaching pedagogy styles (blended learning) and mentoring tutors (teaching assistant) in the programme. External Moderator evaluating, reviewing and assessing the degree programme for 2017 and 2018 moderation sessions.

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  Media Design School

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Lecturer

    • 2008 - 2010
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Diploma in Advanced 3D animation, level 6.Build and teach courses such as Advanced modelling (organic and hard surface), Texture paint and asset building. Facilitate full CG and integrated production (student final year projects).

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  Codemasters

  • KL Central, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Level designer

    • 2007 - 2009
    • KL Central, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Vehicle team level designer, specialise in car racing builts (automobile 3D models according to sponsored blueprint) and in game development (generic assets). These includes level of details polygonal count and texture maps on tyres, wheels, hub, disk breaks, cons, steering wheels, sport chairs, clippers, belts, meters, etc.Responsible for automobile vehicle full set designs (from build, generated maps, LODS and surfacing), mostly focusing on trailblazers, buggies, cruisers and F1 vehicles.

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  The One Academy of Communication Design

  • Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia

  • Lecturer

    • 2006 - 2007
    • Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia

    Design and teach courses such as:3D modelling, Character Modelling, UV mapping and texture paint (Maya)Classical animation (frame by frame animation),Pre-production final projects (Idea, conceptual visual boards, model sheets and storyboards)Video work (visual storyboard, cinematography techniques, narrative structure)

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  Intelture animation studio

  • Damansara Perdana, Selangor, Malaysia

  • 3D Artist

    • Sep 2005 - Jan 2006
    • Damansara Perdana, Selangor, Malaysia

    Animation and modelling for fully CGI TV series.