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Motootua, Apia, Samoa
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v.okesene@nus.edu.ws
Vaisualua Posese Okesene
Objective
To commit to learning and putting to practice strategies to make improvement on myself, my home, my workplace, organization, country and the region.
Experience
1999 – 2007(to date) Samoa Polytechnic, NUS IoT Samoa
Senior lecturer Computing
§ Supervise computing staff – meetings, follow up tasks and conduct appraisal reports.
§ Manage department’s budget
§ Manage computer labs – lab timetables, house keeping, request for services
§ Monitor and upgrade the Cert. Computer Operating program;
- screening and enrollment of applicants
- results documentation and presentation
- curriculum review, development and documentation
§ Facilitate in delivering computing courses for both full time programs and short courses.
§ Develop course manuals and descriptors for computing courses in both full time programs and short courses.
§ Give training and assist staff on computer applications and skills through CAT and when needed.
§ Develop and help moderate computing exam papers.
§ Coordinate short courses – hire part time tutors, document and present results.
§ Actively involve in School meetings and Industry Advisory Panel meetings.
1998 Samoa Polytechnic Samoa
Lecturer Gr 1 Computing
§ Teach computing courses for both full time and short courses.
§ Develop computing exam papers
§ Assist senior lecturer.
1991–1994 Public Service Commission Samoa
Programmer
§ Analyse manual system of record keeping.
§ Revise and upgrade computerized database system for PSC records
§ Transfer from manual system of record keeping to computerized system
§ Create and print Classification list of all PSC employees.
§ Conduct training for staff on database application.
§ Supervise data entry operators
Knowledge
· MS Office XP and 2003, Windows XP, Adobe Pagemaker 7, Publisher, Photoshop 7.2, HTML
· Development of customized Database application – MS Access and Dbase iv.
· Computer Networking and Inter-networking concepts and applications through Cisco training.
· MS Windows Networking essentials and MS Windows Server 2000.
Skills
· Installing basic hardware – floppy disk drive, CD-Rom, RAM chips, hard disk, data projector, printer
· Installing software from CD-ROM and server
· Creating and monitoring user accounts on server.
· Maintaining computer – disk cleanup, de-fragmentation, running antivirus, checking and fixing errors, scheduling tasks
· Cleaning computer hardware – spray inside system and clean keyboards
· Troubleshooting the network connectivity
· Making Power point presentation
· Using Internet for information searching
· Teaching skills for normal and special-need students
Education
Secondary : Samoa College
1982 - 1986
§ School Cert and University Entrance cert.
Tertiary
1988 – 1991 University South Australia Australia
§ B.A., Communication Studies, July 1991
1995 USP Fiji
· Dipl. Computing (partly completed)
1999 – 2000 Samoa Polytechnic(assoc. Christchurch Poly) Samoa
§ CAT (Certificate Adult Teaching)
Other training
2000
· Adv. Cert. Counselling skills Samoa Polytechnic (&AusAid) Samoa
2001
· Cert. of Achievement for
MS Windows 2000 Network & Operating Essentials CSL (MS Cert Ed Center) Samoa
2001
· Cisco instructor training (sem 1 - 4 old vers.)
2003
· Cisco instructor training (sem 1 & 2 new vers) NUS Cisco Academy Samoa
2006 Regional Conference (PacInet2006) Samoa
2005 SamoaIT conference Samoa
2005 SQL Training Samoa
Interests
Socializing, newspaper reading, teaching, learning on Internet, cooking