Peter LeCornu

Employment History

June 2004 - Current: National Training Manager, St John Ambulance Australia

• Manage the RTO status for St John nationally
• Develop courses and learning materials for use across Australia
• Implement flexible learning and e-learning programs
• Provide Executive support to the Medical Standards Committee, Research Ethics Committee and Technical Advisory Committee

1998 - May 2004: Dean, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, CIT  

• Manage the delivery of over 1.1 million student hours in the Faculty’s programs.
• Manage a total Faculty budget of over 7 million dollars.
• Manage a total Faculty staff of 90 full time and 200 part-time staff.
• Liaise with the business and public administration sectors in the ACT to ensure that effective advice is received about directions CIT should be pursuing in business and information technology education.

 In 2003/04, Mr LeCornu was particularly focused on knowledge management and learning and development, including:

• Facilitating a CIT wide Community of Practice focused on Knowledge Sharing
• Facilitating a Faculty Community of Practice focused on Assessment
• Facilitating a national Community of Practice for the National TAFE Heads of Business Studies
• Teaching a Knowledge Management course at CIT for Advanced Diploma Management students
• Chairing a CIT wide Process Improvement Working Group on Induction leading to substantial changes in the CIT wide induction process

From January 2000 to December 2002, Mr LeCornu undertook the additional role of Chair of Faculties in CIT which requires Mr LeCornu to:

• Chair the CIT Board of Studies and oversight development of strategic CIT educational policy
• Chair the Committee of Deans and facilitate coordination of education delivery across the CIT Faculties
• Chair the Quality Committee and oversight the development of quality processes in CIT
• Negotiate the CIT training profile with the ACT Government Training and Adult Education Branch, including coordination of all Faculty input to this process
• Develop Institute education policy and procedures

Mr LeCornu was also actively involved in the national Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) and its programs.

1997: Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Management and Business, Canberra Institute of Technology

• Assist the Head of Faculty in running the Faculty
• Coordinate the development of the 1998 Faculty business plan, requiring extensive consultation with staff
• Manage all Faculty level student enquiries and complaints
• Coordinate the commercial activities within the Faculty
• Contribute to the development of Institute education policy and procedures particularly in the areas of flexible learning, online learning, Internet usage and management information systems

1995 - 1996: Coordinator, Computing and Information Studies, Canberra Institute of Technology

• Coordinate the implementation of the new national computing modules in the ACT.
• Prepare resources for use with several national modules, including Business Information Processing, Input/Output Design and Hardware/Software selection and purchasing.
• Develop and maintain quality assurance procedures for the delivery of the national modules.
• As a member of the School Management Team, assist the Head of School in strategic planning and the implementation of quality assurance across the School.
• Develop information systems to assist heads of departments manage teaching hours and programs.
• Develop electronic course information systems for use by staff and students.
• Chair flexible learning and promotions task groups within the School of Management and Business.
• Participate in CIT’s Management Information Systems Steering Committee (MISSC), particularly providing advice on student administration systems.
• Represent the Institute on the ACT Information Technology Industry Training Council (ACTITITC).
• Chair the ACTITITC Committee responsible for the introduction of an AVTS program in Information Technology User Support.  This program includes the development of resources for the program using National Transition Program funding.
• Organised a national meeting of TAFE staff involved in delivering the new computing curriculum.
• Academic member of the Accreditation Panel for the new NSW TAFE information technology courses.
• Provided advice to other states on development of information technology curriculum.
• ACT representative on the reference group for the national information technology staff development project.
• Develop training programs in cooperation with UNISYS to train people to help organisations convert information technology systems to operate correctly after the year 2000
• Establish and manage the CIT Internet Information Service, to assist with the marketing of all CIT courses, products and services.
• Establish and manage the CIT On-Line Service, a service to provide students with the opportunity to access CIT courses via the Internet.
• Establish and manage the CIT Intranet Service, providing information for all Institute staff.
• Convene the Institute's Internet Working Group and coordinate all activities associated with the Internet.
• Liaise with staff at the AIT TAFE Centre in Singapore, providing resources, assessment and quality assurance processes as required.

1996 (January to April): Consultant, AIT TAFE Centre

Peter was seconded to help establish a training centre in Singapore to deliver TAFE programs to Singaporeans in the fields of Information Technology and Business Studies.  AIT TAFE Centre was established as a privately run training centre and sought assistance from CIT in its establishment.

This position required Mr LeCornu to:

• Interview and select both full-time and part-time staff for the Centre.
• Conduct training sessions for the staff as well as provide mentoring support for the recruited staff.
• Prepare a marketing plan and participate in the marketing activities for the centre.
• Prepare marketing materials and course information brochures suitable for use in Singapore.
• Provide advice on the purchasing of computing equipment for the Centre.
• Adapt Australian teaching materials for use in Singapore.
• Establish quality assurance procedures for the delivery of education.
• Establish a flexible learning centre within the AIT TAFE Centre to allow students to complete information technology modules at their own pace.
• Establish student selection and enrolment procedures.
• Establish a database to manage the activities of the centre.

1989 - 1994: Head of Department, Computing Studies, Bruce Campus, ACT Institute of TAFE (now the Canberra Institute of Technology)

• Write competency based curriculum modules for the national information technology curriculum.
• Review all 180 modules developed as part of the national computing and information technology curriculum project
• Develop ACT Certificate and Diploma courses in Information Technology based on the national modules.
• Teach computing subjects in the Associate Diploma in  Applied Computing, with emphasis on systems analysis and database subjects.
• Develop the Associate Diploma in Applied Computing.
• Supervise up to 400 teaching hours per week involving  up to 10 full-time staff and 25 part-time teachers.
• Liaise with Government Departments and others in the computing industry.
• Represent the Institute on the ACT Information Technology Industry Training Council (and now Deputy Chairperson).
• Represent the ACT Vocational Education system on national curriculum projects.
• Perform a range of administrative duties associated with the running of a TAFE teaching department.
• Coordinated all the departments in the computing and information cluster for 18 months.
• Undertake the duties of Head of School, Management and Business Studies for short periods up to five months.  This involved supervising staff delivering accounting, management, small business, commerce, real estate, property, office studies, office administration, office technology, information technology and library studies.

1984 - 1988: Head of Department, Computing Studies, Woden TAFE College

• Teach computing subjects, including applications, programming and systems analysis  subjects, with particular emphasis on systems analysis.
• Develop curriculum documents for a range of computing courses and, in conjunction with the Curriculum Development department, obtain accreditation for these courses.
• Liaise with many teaching departments in the college on the development and implementation of computing subjects in other courses (eg. accounting, management, horticulture).
• Liaise with the computing services unit on the purchase and installation of computing equipment.
• Supervise up to 180 teaching hours per week involving up to 5 full-time staff and 25 part-time teachers.
• Liaise with Government Departments and others in the computing industry.
• Perform a range of administrative duties associated with the running of a TAFE teaching department.
• Undertake the duties of the Head of School, Business Studies for a period of two months.  This involved supervising staff delivering accounting, management, small business, secretarial studies and computing programs.

1982 - 1983 Computing Services, Woden TAFE College

• Assist with the purchase of microcomputers and the establishment of the computing facilities at the College.
• Develop, in conjunction with others, curriculum for a number of courses on various aspects of microcomputers.
• Develop some Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) to teach students how to use microcomputers.
• Teach microcomputer oriented subjects on using microcomputers and BASIC programming as well as computing subjects to Accounting students.

1977 - 1981: Medibank (Health Insurance Commission).

During this time, he was involved in the analysis, design and programming of on-line and off-line systems related to nearly all aspects of Medibank's work - claims, registration, membership, contributions and financial systems. This work was undertaken on Medibank's own NATSEMI mainframe computer, with programming undertaken in COBOL.

During these five years, he specialised as a Systems Analyst, undertaking analysis of many small to large systems. He received training in structured analysis and design techniques. Mr LeCornu was promoted to the level of CSO3, a team leader position.

1976 Public Service Board.

During this year Mr LeCornu was involved in the programming, in COBOL, of several off-line systems for the PSB's Burroughs B7700 mainframe computer. He also worked, for brief periods, in the operations and systems software areas of the Public Service Board.

1974 Division of National Mapping, Department of Minerals and Energy.

Mr LeCornu wrote programs in Fortran for an off-line system for recording hours spent on particular mapping projects by division staff. Initially written for the CYBER computers owned by the CSIRO but later converted to run on the PDP 11 owned by the Division.

1973 Australian Public Service's Programmer in Training Scheme.

This involved formal studies at CCAE, in-housecourses at the Department of Health and programming work on the Department's IBM Mainframe computer.

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