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Course Advisory Committee
Professor Ian Rouse
Chair, Course Advisory Committee, Dean, Higher Education
BSc Hons( Biomed Science), Grad Dip Health Science, Dip Proj Mgmnt, PhD (Epidemiology)
Dr Todd Hutchison
Independent Professional / Industry Member
Dr Todd Hutchison is an international bestselling author, global business consultant and behavioural and project management specialist. He is listed on the Who’s Who of Business in Australia, and holds a world championship (grade 2) in music as a former WA Police Pipe Band member.
Todd is the global CEO of management consultancy firm Peopleistic, a Commercial Advisor of law firm Balfour Meagher, and works in digital forensics (multimedia) as a police-licensed investigator with Forensics Australia and UltraTech Investigation Services. He also resides as the Chairman of the International Institute of Legal Project Management.
He is an adjunct Associate Professor at both Edith Cowan University (Business and Law) and Curtin University (Science and Engineering). He has qualifications in forensics, company directorship, business, contract management, legal project management, project management, training, information technology, professional coaching and engineering, including an DProf from Middlesex University (London), MBA from Deakin University, and a Master of Commerce from Curtin University. He is now progressing a Bachelor of Laws.
Associate Professor Ayse Bilgin
Independent Academic Member
Ayse is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Macquarie University. She is the President of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) and an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Ayse’s research explores applications of statistics in health sciences and learning and teaching in statistics.
Ayse was a recipient of several learning and teaching awards for her outstanding contributions to student learning such as an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for ‘Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning’, a Macquarie University VC Citation, ATEM Award Community Engagement (Highly Commended); Higher Education Award for Employability; joint-recipient of Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT). Her pedagogical research interests are focused on statistics education, such as learning approaches in statistics, work integrated learning in statistics, impact of learning spaces to students’ learning. She was awarded “Excellence in research: Five Future-shaping Priorities (Healthy People)” by Macquarie University and she was a member of research team which were the finalist of the Eureka Prize in 2017.
Associate Professor Michelle Cavaleri
Chair, Learning and Teaching Committee
BA Hons (Languages and Linguistics); MA (TESOL); PhD (Applied Linguistics)
Dr Viral Pandya
Bachelor of Commerce(Advance Accounting & Auditing), MBA(Marketing), MBA (Finance), PhD(Mergers & Acquisitions)
Dr Oday Al-Jerew
PhD (IT), MSc (Comp. Eng.), BSc (Comp. Eng.)
Oday Al-Jerew is the BBIS course coordinator and lecturer. He has over 12 years of teaching experience in the field of Information Technology, Software Science and Networking. He Joined APIC as a full-time lecturer in February 2017. He is also an active researcher in the area of networking and telecommunication, ad hoc networks, sensor networks and network security.
Oday completed his bachelor’s degree in control and computer engineering from the University of Technology-Iraq in 1997, he completed his Master of Computer Engineering from the University of Technology in 2000. In 2012, he completed his PhD in the area of wireless sensor networks from the school of engineering and computer science at the Australian National University (ANU). Prior joining APIC, Oday worked as a lecturer and assistant head of the Computing Department at the Middle East College (MEC)-Oman. He also worked as sessional lecturer at La Trobe university, Victoria University, University of Western Sydney, Melbourne Institute of Technology, and University of Canberra teaching ICT subjects. Oday was also full-time lecturer at the department of Information Technology at the University of Technology in Iraq. He was also involved in many industrial projects and gains extensive industrial experience during his worked at several industrial companies. He worked as software and systems developer at the AusRobot company to develop embedded programs for mobile robots. In addition, he designed and developed microcomputer-based systems during he worked at the General Electrical Company in Iraq. He also holds technical certifications in computer networking from Cisco Networking Academy and Microsoft.
Oday has taught many postgraduate and undergraduate subjects in different universities and colleges in Australia and overseas and successfully supervised several research students. He has published journal articles and conference papers and has been member in numerous conferences.
Dr Ahmad Kaleem
PhD, MSc, B.Com, CPA, ACMA, CGMA
Dr Ahmad Kaleem has more than twenty years of teaching experience in the Higher Education sector. He is currently serving APIC in the capacity of Head of Discipline (Project Management). Previously, he has served on various leadership positions such as Dean of Business School, Head of Department and member of various senior level committees.
Dr Kaleem hold his PhD in Finance from the University of Malaya, Malaysia and MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking from the University of Reading, UK. He holds full memberships of CPA (Australia), CIMA (UK) and CGMA (International). Dr Kaleem normally teaches Accounting, Finance and Project Management courses and has authored more than thirty research papers and two books of high impact during his career.