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1. Consultant - website development for Hospital Selayang (May-December 2001).
2. Advisor - website development and montage development for official launching of the Askar Wataniah Malaysia website (in collaboration with Ministry of Defence, Malaysia) (September-October 2001).
3. Consultant - Technical Due Diligence for venture capitalists (InSynchro) (2002).
4. Technology Assessment Consultant - Multimedia Grant Scheme (MGS) for Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC), Malaysia (2003-2008).
5. Instructor - short course on Internet and Basic Webpage Design, for army personnel (2000).
6. Instructor - short course on Webpage Design, for secondary school students (2002).
7. Instructor - short course on Microsoft PowerPoint in Teaching, for teachers (2002).
8. Instructor - short course on Webpage Design, for IEE MMU Student Chapter (2003).
9. Part-time Lecturer - Data Networking & Telecommunications course at Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL-MFI) for B.Eng.Tech degree in Industrial Automation & Robotics Technology (August-November 2004).
10. Instructor - short course on Agile Technologies, Software development Lifecycle and Object Oriented Programming for the industry (Finisar) (2006).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1. Lecturer / Subject Coordinator / Examiner / Courses Online Webmaster / Moderator / Tutor for undergraduate courses:

   Compiler & Translator Software Engineering Engineer & Society Database Systems Program Design Operating Systems Computer & Engineer

   AI, Fuzzy & Neural Networks Java Technology Digital Computer Design Object Oriented Programming Computer Systems & Applications (Ghana) Data Networking & Telecommunications (at UniKL-MFI) Programming & Practice (Korea)

2. Lab Supervision of undergraduate experiments:

   Digital Image Processing Information Theory Programming Practice

   Circuits & Signals Instrumentation & Control Systems

3. Supervision of undergraduate Final Year individual projects and postgraduate research projects; industrial training visiting lecturer and presentation moderator; final exam chief invigilator and member of the Board of Examiners.
4. Syllabus planning and review for pre-university and degree courses.

ATTAINMENT OF POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

International Contributions

1. International Conference Committees:
   • Steering Committee - Conference on Innovative Technologies in Intelligent Systems & Industrial Application (CITISIA 2008).
   • Local Organisation Committee member - Joint IEEE Malaysian International Conference on Communications (MICC 2001), East Asian Conference on Lightwave System, Lasers and Optoelectronics (LiSLO 2001) and IEEE Asia Pacific International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2001) (2001); 3rd APT Telemedicine Workshop (2005).
   • Local Organising Chairman (2001), WebMaster (2000) and Local Organising Committee member (2004-2006) - MMU International Symposium on Information Communications Technology (2000-2002, 2004-2006).
   • WebMaster - Joint M²USIC'2002 and TINA Workshop 2002 (2002).
   • Session Chairman - DSP / Consumer Electronics session in MICC-LiSLO-ISCE 2001 (KL, Malaysia)) (24/10/2001); 2nd World Engineering Congress (Kuching, Malaysia) (June 2002); MMU International Symposium on Information Communications Technology (Putrajaya, Malaysia) (October 2004).
2. Technical papers Reviewer:
   • Journals - Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) (2001-); Multimedia Cyberscape Journal (2004-), INTI Journal (2004).
   • Conferences - IASTED CSN (Spain, 2002); M²USIC (Malaysia, 2002-2004); CCCT (USA, 2003); IEEE ICME (USA, 2004); CSCC (Greece, 2004); IIIS CCCT (USA, 2004), WSEAS MMACTEE (Greece, 2004).
3. Co-opt Committee member and System Administrator - International Multimedia Cyberscape Journal (2000-). Technical Director for Journal archive CD-ROM (2003-2004).
4. Counterpart (Content Development Task Force) - Multimedia Tele-education System project (NMES), a joint Malaysia-Japan (JICA) satellite tele-education project. Funding: RM 15 million by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (2000-).
5. Content Development Task Force member - i-Space project, a joint Malaysia-Japan (NASDA)-Thailand satellite tele-education project. Funding: RM 12 million by NASDA (Japan) (2002-).
6. Representative - 1st German, Malaysia and Indonesia Academic & Cultural Workshop (2000).
7. Collaboration initiatives representative - MMU-PTIT (Vietnam) (2000); MMU-Philips Malaysia (2001); MMU-Motorola University (2001); MMU-Daya Dynamics (2001); - visit by the Ambassador of Cuba and Director of the Centre for Genetics Engineering and Biotechnology of Cuba (7/5/2004).

National / Organisational Contributions

1. Program Coordinator - BMM (Hons) Computer and Digital Art joint degree program between FOE and FCM (2004-).
2. Deputy Head (2004-), Coordinator and Secretary (1998-2003) - Reserve Military Training Unit (RMTU), MMU (1998-).
3. Deputy Chairman - Centre for Image Processing and Telemedicine (CIPTEM), MMU (2004-).
4. Club Advisor - Reserve Military Elite Club (RMEC), Multimedia University, Malaysia (MMU) (1998-).
5. Advisor (2003-) and Coordinator of Design & Development Task Force (1998-2003) - Homepage Committee, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia. System Administrator of the faculty servers.
6. Coordinator and Facilitator - co-curriculum course CZA1060 ROTU, MMU (1999-).
7. Co-Organiser:
   • MMU-Ministry of Defense Exhibition and Recruitment drive at MMU (1998-)
   • MMU-TechSource "The Ultimate Computing Environment for Technical Education" Seminar & Exhibition (2000).
8. Technical Chairman (2001-2002) and Advisor (2003-2004) - Faculty of Engineering (MMU) electronic Handbook.
9. Secretary and Activities Coordinator - Centre for Multimedia Communications (CMMC - Centre of Excellence), Multimedia University (1999-2001).
10. Group Leader - Joint Industrial Training Committee, faculties of engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia. (2001-2004).
11. Volunteer (2002-) and Coordinator (2004-) - Faculty of Engineering (MMU) Social Club recycling campaign.
12. Lab Supervisor - Project Lab 2, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia (2002-).
13. Assistant Programme Coordinator - BEng (Hons) Electronics majoring in Computer (MMU) (2003).
14. Credit Transfer Committee member – Faculty of Engineering, MMU (2001-).
15. Team Leader - MMU Open Day lab tours (1999-2000).
16. University Teaching Observer - evaluator of new academic staff (2004-).
17. Academic Advisor – MMU Open Days, faculties of engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia (2002-).
18. Supervisor - Chancellor's Parade, MMU Convocation (2000-2001).
19. Faculty expert - work completion seminar for "Human Iris Image Recognition System for Biometrics Application" (29/1/04); "Algorithms for an Integrated Vision-based Home Security System" (16/8/04).
20. Lab Procurement and Lab Development committees - Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia (1999-).
21. Collaboration Leader - MMU-Macromedia / RQNet / Intranesis Communications (2000-).
22. Collaboration Leader - MMU-Infortech MSC (2000-2001).
23. Elected member of the Students’ Representative Council, Maktab Sains MARA Kuala Lumpur (1992/93).

OTHER EXPERIENCES / COMPETENCIES

1. MMU Team Member for international Cyptography Challenges by distributed.net:
   • RSA Lab RC5 64-bit cryptography challenge (26/12/1998-current)
   • Computer & Systems Cipher CSC cryptography challenge (18/11/1999-01/2000).
2. Volunteer in the Territorial Army (Askar Wataniah, Angkatan Tentera Malaysia) (1998-).
3. Facilitator, Leadership Course 1999 - organised by SRC for the Presidents and Secretaries of the university's clubs and societies (23 - 25/07/99).
4. Invited Speaker, Orientation Programme 2001/2002 - "Tips and Paradigm Shift for a Beneficial Student Life at University" (29/04/2001).
5. Exhibitor - Reseach exhibition for Bio Malaysia at PWTC (01-04/10/2002).
6. Participant, national level British Computer Society programming competition, United Kingdom (1997).
7. Computer Literacy:
   • functional programming skills in a variety of languages, including C, HTML, Miranda, Modula-2, Prolog, M68000, MATLAB, IDL, Visual Basic macros, SQL, SmallTalk, object-oriented and visual languages, Unix shell script, Perl, CGI, ColdFusion etc.
   • teaching of computer subjects (at university as well as offer of short courses through the Malaysian HRDC Prolus scheme) and web page consultancy.
   • experience in setting up and maintenance of servers (Linux and Windows), usage of common applications (e.g. MS Office and Lotus suites etc.) and PC utilities.

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