Overview

• Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, studying "Computation and information dynamics in complex networks".
• Ph.D. in Information Technology at The University of Sydney, co-supervised by CSIRO (awarded 2010).
• 10 years as a Research Engineer in industry (at Telstra Research Laboratories, Sydney, 2001 to 2006; and at Seeker Wireless, Sydney, 2006 to 2010, part-time), predominantly in mobile applications R&D.
• Published over 25 papers in refereed journals and conferences (including Chaos, PRE, J. Comp. Neuro., Optics Lett.).
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Physics and Computer Science.
• Outstanding academic record, including the University Medal and recognition as most highly ranked Ph.D. applicant for 2006.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology, University of Sydney, 2006-2010 (awarded November 2010).
  "The local information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems" - see Research Statement for more details below. This Ph.D. was supervised by Dr. Mikhail Prokopenko at CSIRO's ICT Centre, and Prof. Albert Zomaya at the School of Information Technologies.
• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical - Information Systems) (Honours Class I and the University Medal), University of Sydney, 1996-2000.
  Honours Thesis (supervised by Dr. Graham Town): "Applications of Holey Fibre: Splicing, Spot-size conversion and Coupling" (2000) - numerical simulations of holey fibre, a new type of microstructured optical fibre design, involving measuring splice loss with standard fibre and the effectiveness of tapered structures in spot-size conversion.
  Also met criteria for Computers and Telecommunications Engineering.
• Bachelor of Science (Advanced), University of Sydney, 1996-1998.
  Majors: Physics and Computer Science.
• Higher School Certificate, Oakhill College, Castle Hill, 1995.
  Tertiary Entrance Rank: 99.95 (out of max. 100)

Research Statement

My primary research interest lies in the information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems. The physics or nature of distributed computation has long been of interest in complex systems, artificial life, bioinformatics and computational neuroscience. Systems in all of these domains are often described in terms of memory, communication or signalling and processing. The hypothesis I am following is that if we can describe and quantify distributed computation in these terms, with particular attention to their dynamics, then we will be better able to understand computation in nature and its sources of complexity. It will also allow us to answer meaningful questions about computation in complex systems; e.g. when and how much information is transferred between two brain regions. This approach should also provide insights on how to better design distributed computing systems.

I have produced a framework to quantitatively define each of these distributed operations on information during computation. Formally they are information storage, transfer and modification, and collectively referred to as information dynamics. They are measured information-theoretically, and are called dynamics since they are studied on a local scale in space and time. I have introduced new measures including the active information storage and separable information (for modification), localised existing measures including the transfer entropy and excess entropy, and compared to other related measures including causal information flow (see papers [11,16,18,29] below).

Importantly, the framework has provided quantitative evidence for several long-held conjectures regarding distributed computation in theoretical systems, such as the roles of emergent structures in cellular automata [11,16,18,29]. I have also studied whether these computational properties are maximised in order-chaos phase transitions [13,24,25,31]. Further, I have produced a Java toolkit to implement the measures, and applied them to study computation in models of gene regulatory networks [13,24,25], artificial life systems [12,14], and in computational neuroscience [19,20,27,28], with promising results in each domain. The existing work shows the approach is theoretically sound and has strong potential for making inroads for complex systems science into many disciplines.

Currently I am studying how the physical structure of complex networks relates to their computational capabilities [19,22,25]. For example, I have found that ordered networks tend to be biased towards information storage behaviour, random networks tend to be biased towards information transfer behaviour, while small-world networks exhibit something of a balance between these operations [25]. I am also concentrating on applications to complex networks in computational neuroscience [19,27,28], e.g. examining task-based differences in spatiotemporal information transfer patterns in brain imaging data [27].

I have successfully collaborated on this work with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, CSIRO ICT Centre, The University of Sydney, Indiana University, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Osaka University, University of Delaware, and Doshisha University.

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany (Dec 2010 to present).
I am currently based in Prof. Juergen Jost's Dynamical Systems and Network Analysis, and Cognition and Neurosciences groups. My postdoctoral work aims to investigate how information is manipulated in complex networks, harnessing the expertise at MPI regarding dynamical systems, complex networks, synchronisation, information theory and computational neuroscience. Read more about my current research in my Research Statement above, and at http://lizier.me/joseph/.

Research Associate (part-time) The University of Sydney (July 2010 to Nov 2010).
Writing up papers from my thesis work, and co-supervising an honours student.

Senior R&D Engineer (part-time) Seeker Wireless (Dec 2006 to Oct 2010).
I assisted with research and development for the SIM toolkit client-side component of Seeker's mobile handset location solution. This included prototype work for new features, development on the production code-base, testing and investigation of specific handset compatibility issues, development of automatic build and deployment tools, and some Java web application development.

Casual Academic Tutor Department of Computing, and Department of Electronics, Macquarie University (Aug 2006 to Nov 2006).
I tutored the courses ELEC116 Introduction to Electronic Systems (for 1st year students), and COMP333 Algorithm Theory and Design (for 3rd year students), which involved running weekly tutorials, laboratories, and marking of assignments. My teaching evaluations are available on request.

Senior Research Technologist Telstra Research Laboratories (Jan 2001 to Jan 2006).
My role at TRL covered a wide variety of technologies, in particular service management, mobile telecommunications and XML web services. I was involved across all research activities including prototype development, consulting on emerging technologies, product trials and vendor evaluations. My roles in these projects ranged from regular team member to technical lead and project leader.
The project areas I was involved in, and my roles in these projects, included:

• Anomaly detection in service metrics (Aug 2004 to Jan 2006) - this project aimed to improve anomaly detection for network and service metrics for ICT systems with cyclic load characteristics. My technical role included designing algorithms, carrying out experiments on real network data, and designing and implementing a prototype system, and as project leader I set and prioritised research direction. The technology is now owned by Telstra spin-off Elanti Systems.
• Online identity management (Aug 2003 to Jul 2004) - this project sought to position the company appropriately to handle emerging technological advancements in identity management, in particular "federation". My role included providing technical analysis of various market opportunities, contributing to vendor analysis, lead architect and developer for a significant prototype, and consultation on production deployment of an identity management system.
• Previous projects included: Network Storage of personal communications information (as technical lead), Developer support services (including supervising the development work of a colleague), Mobile messaging support services (including SIM toolkit development), and Online Trading.

Tutor School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney (Jul to Nov 2000).
I tutored the course ELEC1102 Foundations of Electrical Circuits (for 1st year students), which involved running weekly 2 hour mini-lecture/tutorials for classes of 60 students, as well as marking of weekly assignments. The course lecturer, Dr. Jamie Evans, wrote in a letter of recommendation - "Quite simply, I do not believe the students could have had a better tutor."

Industrial Experience Student Chancellor's Industry Scholarship in Engineering
This involved summer vacation placements with: Telstra Research Laboratories (Sydney, Dec 1999 to Feb 2000, developing service management software), BHP Steel (Port Kembla, Dec 1997 to Feb 1998, designing earth leakage detection and overhead crane warning systems), and Integral Energy (Seven Hills, Dec 1996 to Feb 1997, database management).

Summer Vacation Research Student School of Physics, The University of Sydney (Dec 1998 to Jan 1999)
I assisted in Dr. Ferg Brand’s research, designing and conducting experiments to investigate Bragg reflection of millimetre waves from an illuminated semiconductor.

Tutor Casual (1996 to 1999) and with Five Senses Education (1997)
One-on-one tutor for both high school and university students for Maths and Physics.

See and download all publications (plus abstract-only work) at http://lizier.me/joseph/publications/.
See also my list of presentations on these pulications at http://lizier.me/joseph/presentations/. A selection of publications is as follows: (show all) All publications are as follows: (show a selection only)

J.T. Lizier, F. M. Atay and J. Jost, "Information storage, loop motifs and clustered structure in complex networks", MPI MIS Preprint 71/2011, 2011.
M. Prokopenko, J.T. Lizier, O. Obst and X.R. Wang, "Relating Fisher information to order parameters", Physical Review E, vol. 84, no. 4, 041116, 2011.
J.T. Lizier, S. Pritam and M. Prokopenko, "Information dynamics in small-world Boolean networks", Artificial Life, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 293-314, 2011.
X. R. Wang, J.T. Lizier and M. Prokopenko, "Fisher information at the edge of chaos in random Boolean networks", Artificial Life vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 315-329, 2011.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Coherent information structure in complex computation", accepted by Theory in Biosciences special issue on Guided self-organization, 2010, to be published.
J. Boedecker, O. Obst, J.T. Lizier, N.M. Mayer, M. Asada, "Information processing in echo state networks at the edge of chaos", accepted by Theory in Biosciences special issue on Guided self-organization, 2010, to be published.
J.T. Lizier, J. Heinzle, A. Horstmann, J.-D. Haynes, M. Prokopenko, "Multivariate information-theoretic measures reveal directed information structure and task relevant changes in fMRI connectivity", Journal of Computational Neuroscience (Special issue on "Methods of Information Theory in Neuroscience Research"), vol. 30, pp. 85-107, 2011.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Information modification and particle collisions in distributed computation", Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science for the Focus issue on "Intrinsic and Designed Computation: Information processing in dynamical systems", vol. 20, no. 3, 037109, 2010.
J.T. Lizier, and M. Prokopenko, "Differentiating information transfer and causal effect", European Physical Journal B, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 605-615, 2010.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Local Information Transfer as a Spatiotemporal Filter for Complex Systems", Physical Review E, vol. 77, 026110, 2008.
J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, "Splice Losses in Holey Optical Fibers", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 794-796, 2001.
G.E. Town and J.T. Lizier, "Tapered holey fibers for spot-size and numerical aperture conversion", Optics Letters, Vol. 26, No. 14, pp. 1042-1044, 2001
J.T. Lizier, F. M. Atay and J. Jost, "Information storage, loop motifs and clustered structure in complex networks", MPI MIS Preprint 71/2011, 2011.
M. Prokopenko, J.T. Lizier, O. Obst and X.R. Wang, "Relating Fisher information to order parameters", Physical Review E, vol. 84, no. 4, 041116, 2011.
M. Rubinov, J. Lizier, M. Prokopenko, M. Breakspear, "Maximized directed information transfer in critical neuronal networks", Proc. Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2011), Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011. Published by BMC Neuroscience vol. 12 (Suppl. 1): P18, 2011.
J.T. Lizier, J.-D. Haynes, J. Heinzle, M. Prokopenko, "Spatiotemporal information transfer pattern differences in motor selection", Proc. Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2011), Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011. Published by BMC Neuroscience vol. 12 (Suppl. 1): P261, 2011.
X.R. Wang, J.M. Miller, J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and L.F. Rossi,"Measuring Information Storage and Transfer in Swarms", Proc. Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL 2011), Paris, 2011. Published in Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ISBN 978-0-262-29714-1, 2011, pp. 838-845.
J.T. Lizier, S. Pritam and M. Prokopenko, "Information dynamics in small-world Boolean networks", Artificial Life, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 293-314, 2011.
X. R. Wang, J.T. Lizier and M. Prokopenko, "Fisher information at the edge of chaos in random Boolean networks", Artificial Life vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 315-329, 2011.
X.R. Wang, J.T. Lizier and J. Wall, "Information transfer analysis for ongoing commissioning of buildings", accepted for Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2011), 2011.
R.V. Ceguerra, J.T. Lizier and A.Y. Zomaya, "Information storage and transfer in the synchronization process in locally-connected networks", in Proc. IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011) - IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2011. Published by IEEE, 2011, p. 54-61, ISBN 978-1-61284-061-1.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Coherent information structure in complex computation", accepted by Theory in Biosciences special issue on Guided self-organization, 2010, to be published.
J. Boedecker, O. Obst, J.T. Lizier, N.M. Mayer, M. Asada, "Information processing in echo state networks at the edge of chaos", accepted by Theory in Biosciences special issue on Guided self-organization, 2010, to be published.
J.T. Lizier, J. Heinzle, A. Horstmann, J.-D. Haynes, M. Prokopenko, "Multivariate information-theoretic measures reveal directed information structure and task relevant changes in fMRI connectivity", Journal of Computational Neuroscience (Special issue on "Methods of Information Theory in Neuroscience Research"), vol. 30, pp. 85-107, 2011.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Information modification and particle collisions in distributed computation", Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science for the Focus issue on "Intrinsic and Designed Computation: Information processing in dynamical systems", vol. 20, no. 3, 037109, 2010.
X. R. Wang, J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko, "A Fisher information study of phase transitions in random Boolean networks", Proc. Twelfth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, August 2010. Published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ISBN 978-0-262-29075-3, 2010, pp. 305-312.
J.T. Lizier, and M. Prokopenko, "Differentiating information transfer and causal effect", European Physical Journal B, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 605-615, 2010.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and D. J. Cornforth, "The information dynamics of cascading failures in energy networks", in Proc. European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), p. 54, The University of Warwick, UK, September 2009.
J.T. Lizier, M. Piraveenan, D. Pradhana, M. Prokopenko, and L. S. Yaeger, "Functional and structural topologies in evolved neural networks", in Proc. European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Budapest, September 2009. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5777, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 140-147.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "The Information Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Random Boolean Networks", in Proc. Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife XI), Winchester, UK, August 2008. Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2008, pp. 374-381.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko, I. Tanev and A.Y. Zomaya, "Emergence of Glider-like Structures in a Modular Robotic System", in Proc. Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife XI), Winchester, UK, August 2008. Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2008, pp. 366-373.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Local Information Transfer as a Spatiotemporal Filter for Complex Systems", Physical Review E, vol. 77, 026110, 2008.
X.R. Wang, J.T. Lizier, O. Obst, M. Prokopenko, P. Wang, "Spatiotemporal Anomaly Detection in Gas Monitoring Sensor Networks", in Proc. 5th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '08), Bologna, January 2008. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4913, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 90-105.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Detecting non-trivial computation in complex dynamics", in Proc. European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL '07), Lisbon, September 2007. Published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4648, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 895-904.
J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Information transfer by particles in cellular automata", in Proc. Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL '07), Gold Coast, December 2007. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4828, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 49-60.
J.T. Lizier and T.J. Dawson, "On the Periodicity of Time-series Network and Service Metrics", in Proc. IEEE International Region 10 Conference (Tencon '05), Melbourne, November 2005, paper 1568964734.
J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, "Loss in Microstructured Fibre with a short taper", in Proc. Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2002), Sydney, July 2002, paper M-PD-003.
J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, "Splice Losses in Holey Optical Fibers", in Proc. International Optical and Optoelectronics Communications Conference (OECC/IOOC/ACOFT 2001), Sydney, July 2001, paper TueG5.
J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, "Splice Losses in Holey Optical Fibers", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 794-796, 2001.
G.E. Town and J.T. Lizier, "Tapered holey fibers for spot-size and numerical aperture conversion", in Proc. Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO 2001), Baltimore, May 2001, paper CTuAA3.
G.E. Town and J.T. Lizier, "Tapered holey fibers for spot-size and numerical aperture conversion", Optics Letters, Vol. 26, No. 14, pp. 1042-1044, 2001
G.F. Brand and J.T. Lizier, "Bragg Scattering of Surface Waves by a Photo-Induced Array", International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 717-724, 2000

Awards and Grants

• Best Paper award at IEEE ALife, with Rommel Ceguerra and Albert Zomaya (2011).
• Finalist for Rita and John Cornforth Medal for an outstanding PhD graduate at USyd (2011).
• Honourable Mention in CORE Doctoral Dissertation awards for most outstanding computer science Ph.D. thesis in Australia (2010).
• A.E. and F.A.Q. Stevens Scholarship (2006-2009); an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) equivalent scholarship, awarded to the most highly ranked applicant to The University of Sydney for an APA.
• CSIRO Postgraduate Award (2006-2009); providing supervisory and financial support for Ph.D. studies aligned with CSIRO's work program.
• ARC Complex Open Systems Network (COSNet) overseas travel grant (2008).
• ALifeXI travel bursary award (2008).
• Siemens Prize for Solving an Industry Problem in Research Project Work (2006).
• Telstra Research Labs Future Oriented Research and Development Grant (FORD) (2004-2006) for a project investigating anomaly detection in service metrics.
• University Medal for the Electrical Engineering degree (2000).
• Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of 92.3. Transcripts available on request.
• Chancellor's Industry Scholarship in Engineering (1996-2000); a co-op type scholarship, which involved sponsorship by Telstra, BHP, Integral Energy, Energy Australia and Asea Brown Boveri.
• Bullant Technology Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering; awarded to most proficient 4th year Electrical Engineering student (2000).
• Institution of Electrical Engineers Prize; for most proficient 3rd year Electrical Engineering student (1999).
• Offered Deas-Thompson Scholarship and Cadbury - Julius Sumner Miller Scholarship No.3 for performance in Physics 3 (Adv) (1998), conditional on progression to Physics Honours.
• Best Undergraduate Team Project in Computer Science (1998).
• Electrical Engineering Foundation Second Year Prize; judged on academic performance and written and oral presentations (1997).
• Cadbury - Julius Sumner Miller Scholarship No.2; for performance in Physics 2 (Adv) (1997).
• Science Foundation for Physics Scholarship No.1; for performance in Physics 1 (Adv) (1996).
• KK Saxby Prize; for performance in Mathematics 1 (Adv) (1996).
• Named on Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance in the Bachelor of Engineering Degree (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000) and in Bachelor of Science Degree (1998).
• Higher School Certificate 1995 - Tertiary Entrance Rank 99.95 (out of max 100)
• Dux of Oakhill College Yr. 7 - 12 (1990-1995). Darcy Crowe Perpetual Award for Dux of Yr.12 (1995).
• Australian Students Prize for Excellence; from the Department of Employment, Education and Training for performance in the HSC (1995).
• Br. Rory Higgins Scholarship for Yr. 11-12 (1994-95). Judged on Academic Achievement, Leadership Qualities, Other Talents, and Commitment to School Values.

Technical and Professional Skills

• Academic skills:
• Interdisciplinary perspective as a complex systems scientist, including attendance at the 2007 Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, and experience applying analysis across brain imaging data, models of biological networks, modular robotics, and cellular automata.
• Research skills. I have had significant involvement in research, both in academia and in industry, across a wide range of technologies. I have published over 25 articles in refereed journals and conferences, and have engaged in several successful collaborative efforts.
• Professional talks. I have made many conference presentations (including at ALife), internal and invited seminars (including at JW Goethe University, Frankfurt) - see the full list of these and download samples at http://lizier.me/joseph/presentations/.
• Membership of program committees: Int. Conf. on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2012); Guided Self-Organisation (GSO) 2008, 2010, 2011; Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS) 2010. Chair of Students Special Interest Group session of CSIRO ICT Centre conference 2008.
• Reviewed journal articles for: Artificial Life, Advances in Complex Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Journal of Cellular Automata.
• Reviewed grant proposals for: National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (Chile).
• Supervised 1 USyd honours student (HD for thesis), and 2 CSIRO internship students; all of whose work resulted in academic publications.
• Teaching experience, with outstanding feedback from both students and supervising lecturers.
• Success in grant/funding applications, listed above, including: FORD Grant, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences postdoctorate position (2010), Postgraduate stipends, travel grants.
• Impact on my field: e.g. h-index of 5 on ISI, 8 on Google scholar; my work has been included in a Master's level course "Nonstandard computation" at Portland State University.
• Membership of learned societies: IEEE, IEEE Information Theory society, International scoiety for Artificial Life, Organisation for computational neuroscience (OCNS).
• Successful collaborations: including with researchers from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Indiana University and the Max Planck Institute.
• Programming and computing skills:
• Exceptional programming and computational skills, in both research and production contexts. My most recent experiences are with Java, but I have experience in many other languages, including Visual Basic, C/C++ and Python. I particularly enjoy programming in low-level languages, and have experience in assembly language, programmable logic controllers and smartcards (Javacard).
• Numerical analysis skills - including experience with Octave/Matlab, use of information-theoretical methods, experience in large data set analysis on high performance clusters, and understanding of code optimisation.
• Experience with a wide range of software packages, including - Octave/Matlab, NetLogo, J2EE for Java web applications, Apache Tomcat, Javacard (for SIM toolkit applets), PocketPC development, Unix/Linux as well as Windows environments.
• Experience with many web/mobile protocols and standards, including - SIM toolkit (GSM 03.17), Secure Over the air messaging (GSM 03.48), Short Messaging Service (GSM 03.40), MM7 (MMS), HTTP and XML/HTML, SOAP and WSDL, UDDI, Project Liberty for Identity Federation.
• Professional/soft skills:
• Proven ability to apply theoretical grounding to practical situations (e.g. applying our studies of information dynamics to provide insights in brain imaging data [19]).
• Well developed meta-cognitive skills. I am a very fast learner, and a highly intuitive and strong logical and analytical thinker.
• Excellent communication skills. I have made many conference presentations, and my development has included workshops from the Theatre of Leadership and Maura Fay. Regarding writing skills, I have written PhD and honours level theses, published many academic articles, and written technical reports in industry. I am a regular member of committees both in and outside of the workplace, including my position as the Secretary of our Strata Title Owners Corporation and positions as a student representative to the School of Electrical Engineering each year of my enrolment.
• Outstanding personal skills. I have always found it easy to establish rapport with groups that I am a part of. I am a solid team player and leader, having filled both roles in the workplace and academia (e.g. supervising an Honours student, project leader positions at Telstra, project leader in academic collaborations). I oversaw the running of a Monthly Barbecue event at TRL (including establishing a process and constructing a website), which ran successfully over 4 years.
• Project skills. I have experience as a leader in the workplace, as both a technical lead and as a project manager. Outside the workplace, my experience as Secretary of our Strata Title Owners Corporation has provided valuable experience, in particular regarding finances and inter-personal relations.

Referees

• Please contact me for referees (professional and academic) and their contact details.

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