| Personal Details
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| Name
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Kim Tucker
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| Location
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Switzerland
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| Citizenship
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South Africa
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| Marital Status
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Married
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| Contact
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E-mail me
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| Education
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| Secondary
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St. George’s College, Harare. A-level: Physics, Mathematics
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| Tertiary
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Hons BSc Psychology & Computing Science (University of Zimbabwe)
MSc Conservation Biology (University of Cape Town)
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| Work History and Experience
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| 2009-present
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| Years |
Employer |
Roles/Domains |
Knowledge Applied
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| 2009-...
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Freelance
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Catalyst / Trainer / Coach
- Free/libre and open source software
- Libre knowledge
- Open Educational Resources
- Java Specialists
- Individual and team coaching
- Organisational transformation
- Knowledge management
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- Strategic foresight
- Policy development
- Free Software Case Studies
- Open innovation and knowledge management
- Agile methodologies
- Open Spaces unconferences
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Theory of constraints
- Communication
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| 2003-2008
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| Years |
Employer |
Position/Roles |
Activities/Projects
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| 2006-2008
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Meraka Institute
CSIR: Environmentek, icomtek, CSIR
Open Source Centre, Meraka Institute.
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Senior Researcher - ICT in Education
Research area leader: Libre Knowledge and Learning
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- Collaborative conceptualisation of the Libre Knowledge research area
- Proposals and sourcing funds
- Convene and facilitate workshops to consolidate the concept and grow networks of collaborators
- Catalyse collaboration via workshops on e-learning pedagogy and related topics
- Inspire innovative projects
- Stimulate international dialogue
- Develop research agenda for OER.
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| 2003-2006
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CSIR Open Source Centre (OSC)
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Focus Area Leader:
Open Mentor
As a member of the Open Source Coalition/ Go-Opensource Campaign in South Africa the OSC was concerned with FLOSS advocacy and policy development.
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- Raising awareness of FLOSS and policy development
- Stimulating and catalysing FLOSS capacity building initiatives
- Developing FLOSS migration strategies
- Research.
FLOSSWorld (Year 1): world-wide impact study of free/libre and open source software:
- Proposal preparation (FP6)
- Regional/Africa workshop coordination
- Research leadership and reporting.
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| 2001 - 2003
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iComtek (CSIR)
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Senior Software Developer
2002-3
SA-ISIS: alpha to beta to 1.0. Technical Lead.
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Java design and architecture. Systems analysis, agile methodology development.
Various internal mentoring and R&D projects: Culturally Adaptive Systems, Forestry management, Java design and architecture.
- Liaison between technical team and project management
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| 1995-2001
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| Years |
Employer |
Position/Roles |
Activities/Projects
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| 1995-2001
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CSIR: Water, Environment and Forestry Technology
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Environmental Scientist
2000-2001
SA-ISIS - systems integrator
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- Catalyse collaboration and communication: technical team with domain experts.
- System integration
- Case study analysis. Soft systems methodologies.
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Researcher and Mentor
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Various internal mentoring and R&D projects:
Core Java, server-side Java/XML, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, tools [JBuilder, Together/J].
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1997-1999
Co-Coordinator of ICT Cross-Cutting Technology (CCT) and Knowledge Management.
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- Assist with “cross-cutting technologies” (CCTs) and Knowledge Management
- Integration of various ICT activities across the Strategic Unit
- Inspired several, other CCTs including environmental modelling, sustainability indicators, risk management, etc.
- Small-scale quality improvement projects: skills database, task management, ideas management, etc. Technology tracking: Java, object technologies (UML), XML.
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1997-1998
Project Leader
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Multi-level decision support for a strategic cooperative approach to the management of alien plants in South Africa
- management and coordination of development and integration of all components including web-enabled expert system, serving maps (Java), static html content etc.
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1996-1998
Project Leader
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The Outeniqua Decision Support System
- Management and coordination of development and integration of all components including map preparation and display.
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Knowledge engineer
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Land-based effluent disposal and use: development of guidelines and expert systems based decision support.
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1995
Knowledge engineer
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An expert system for riparian zone classification
- Knowledge elicitation and representation
- Expert system development.
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| 1990-1994
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| Years |
Employer |
Position/Roles |
Activities/Projects
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| 1993-1994
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University of Cape Town
MSc student
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Researcher and Knowledge engineer
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An expert system for screening potentially invasive alien plants in South African fynbos
- Research
- Knowledge elicitation, representation and expert system development.
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| 1990-1994
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University of Transkei (Eastern Cape, SA) [now known as Walter Sisulu University]
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Lecturer - Computer Science
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Lecture undergraduates from 1st to 3rd year and project supervision including topics such as:
- Introduction to Computer Science
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Operating Systems
- Compilers, etc.
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1992
Consultant: knowledge engineering phase
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- Expert System for alien plant management (CSIR) – assist at knowledge engineering workshop and with conceptualisation.
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| 1984-1990
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| Years |
Employer |
Position/Roles |
Activities/Projects
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| 1984-1990
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Saint George's College
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Head of Computer Science
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Establish the department. Procurement of hardware and software, curriculum design and delivery: O-level Computer Studies, A-level computer science and additional courses such as introduction to computers, word processing, spreadsheets and databases.
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| 1989
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Programmer
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ISAM Index (B+ Tree implementation, C/C++)
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