Phone: 61 7 4939 7619
61 7 4930 9457
Fax: 61 7 4930 9729
Email: balsys@cqu,edu,au
Date of Birth: 02/04/1955
Work History
1978 Awarded B. App. Sc. (Physics), CIAE, Rockhampton.
1979 Employed as Geotechnician, Minatome Pty, Ltd.
1980 Tutor, Level 1 Dept. Maths. & Computing, CIAE.
1985 Senior Tutor, Level 2
1987 Lecturer II, level 3, CIAE
1987 AINSE grant for ‘investigative studies of layered metal oxides’
1988 Awarded M. App. Sc. (Physics & Materials), UTS, Sydney.
1989 Five months Professional Experience Program at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1992 QEC Gladstone consultancy
1993 NEIS scheme with ICI Yarwin site
1994 ANSTO grant for further ‘investigative studies of layered
metal oxides’
1994 Senior Lecturer, Level C, UCQ
2001 Awarded PhD (Computer Science), UTS, Sydney.
2001 Five month OSPRO to work on publications.
2003 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Emerging Researchers
2004-current Head of School of Information Technology
Professional Involvement/Contributions
I am a member of the following professional organisations.
Member of the Australian Computer Society.
Member of the Association of Computing Machinery.
Member CHISIG
Associate Member IEEE
Personal Achievements
Being part of a family consisting of my partner Jan, Shannon (25), Miranda (23), Shona (16) and Tiana (5). Once jointly owning and managing a private retail Nursery business. Consulting with industry on a number of small projects. Using neutron diffractometer at ANSTO to determine crystallography of a new ionic conductor discovered during MAppSc work. Being awarded a PhD in Computer Science. Having so much fun doing it all.
Academic Achievements
Managing Mathematics & Computing’s $150,000 budget for part time markers and tutors from 1982 to 1989. Becoming Head of School in 2004.
Developing and managing many subject offerings in computing.
Making early use of information technology in production and delivery of material to fulltime and distance learning students.
Development of LEARNDOS. This package was distributed under a share ware license. Adopters included; some State schools. The Australian Tax Office also made an enquiry for its use.
Coordination of the BIT (Honours) program.
My research in computer graphics.
Synopsis of skills
Languages
Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Lisp, Cobol, C, Prolog, Assembler, Smalltalk, C++, Java.
Operating Systems
MacOS, Linux Fedora Core, Windows3.1/95/98/NT, Unix, Vax/VMS, HP MPE.
Teaching
Over the years I have tutored/lectured/developed subjects in areas such as:
Data Handling, Technical Mathematics A&B, Introductory Biomathematics A&B, Mathematics 1 A&B, Statistics 1, Scientific Programming II, Computer Architecture& Assembler, Graphics, Computer Systems 2, Operating Systems, Computer Laboratory B, Programming Environments, Data Communications, Geometry, Shapes and Numbers, Computer Graphics, Computer Languages 1B, Programming B, Honours Informatics Topic A, Human Computer Interaction, Internet Programming, Java for Object Oriented Programmers, Professional Issues in Computing, and Algorithms and Data Structures.
I am preparing the subject Object Oriented Principles for the MIT program.
I have been the academic coordinator of the Bachelor Information Technology (Honors) program for more than ten years.
I have also supervised numerous degree and honours projects as well as supervising a Masters student to completion and I am currently principle supervisor for a PhD student.
Student Projects
Steven Robinson. “Laboratory System for Marian/St. Stanislaus School. 1987.
P. Whittaker. “PC Print Buffer”. 1987.
M. Titman?. “Drill Hole Pattern Program, Blackwater Mine”. 1988.
G. Walters. “A computer-Aided Cadastral Information System. 1988.
G. Hope. “Irrigation Systems and Pipeline Design”. 1989.
D. Caffin “Educational Game Playing”. 1990.
R. M. Salmon. “A study of User Interface Management Systems”. 1991.
D. Elsmore, M. Jack. “Music Scripting and Playback system”. 1991.
R. Chernick. “Simulation of MC68000 exception processing”. 1993.
Tony Bowes “Soil Erosion Model”. 1994.
Kylie Jones. “Web site for Tropical Beef Centre”. 1996.
C. Benedict. C. Kleinschmidt. 1998, "Australian Baseball Hall of Fame VRML design".
C. Leigh. “A multi-pass ray tracer”. 1998.
A. Richardson. “OpenGL Bezier Patch Modeler with Point Selection and Manipulation”. 1999.
A. Bowie. “Implementing a Prey-Predator Animation”. 2000.
K. Wiltshire. “3D Modeling and Animation of a TV commercial for High Street Optical”. 2001.
B. Heaton. “An Active Visualisation of Process Control in a Paper Mill Boiler”. 2002.
A. Johnston. “Java SGP source, manual and report”. 2003
S. Ellerton. “Developing the OpenGL SGP and Interactive Gaming Environment”. 2005.
Honors Projects
George Draper, Owen Van Itallie. “Sign Language Processing”. 1996.
Brooks, B., 2000, "Image Reconstruction from Medical Ct Data".
S. Olde. 2003. “Design and Development of an Educational Website – North Keppel Island Environmental Education Centre a Case Study”.
S. Cochrane. 2003 “Changing roles in the filmmaking process – The Professional Generalist”.
Master Thesis
Godden, R.D., 2000, "The Use of Stereo Video as a Training Media in the Mining Industry".
PhD thesis
Brett Brooks "Groupware issues in Computer Supported Cooperative Work" 2005. Current full time student.
Cheers,
Ron Balsys
