Career Achievements & Objectives

Paul’s international career spans 37 years as an Educator, Information Technology Professional, Manager and Business Owner.  Paul has worked and travelled in over 26 countries.  In addition to his business professional roles, Paul has been a professional speaker and information technology educator for businessmen & women whose L1 (mother tongue) is not English.

Through TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), Paul’s goal is to bring his success as a business educator, his joy of teaching, and his travel & cultural experiences into the EFL classroom and to his students.

Born in England, educated in Canada, UK and Australia plus the broad overseas experience means Paul’s accent & articulation is clear & adaptive and he is able to provide students with the benefit of accent acquisition for England, Canada or Australia.

Professional Speaking Engagements

• ‘Outlook & Internet Training’,
  Practical Education Institute Ltd [New Plymouth, New Zealand, August 2003.
• 'Computer Legal & Security Issues for Travel Web Sites',
  Eye for Travel Conferences [Los Angeles, July 2000]
• ‘IT Project Management’,
  IES Conferences [Sydney, 1997]
• ‘Corporate Information Systems Decentralisation’,
  Federal Airports Corporation – Finance Conference [Brisbane, 1997]
• ‘Information Centre Organisation’,
  6th Annual MCTF Conference [Maastricht, Netherlands  December 1990]
• ‘Operations Strategic Planning’,
  AFCOM International 1990 User Conference [Washington, D.C., March 1990]

Worldwide Course Development & Teaching Experience

• PC Software Training Courses (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• HHow to use a PC (Basic PC operations, Windows XP & Vista)
• Business English:
  • IT Strategic Planning, Disaster Recovery & Contingency Planning, Business Meetings & Report writing
• Numerous IBM Mainframe Software Training courses
• Computer Forensics & Investigation for Department of Defence, Australia

Areas of Industry Expertise

• Extensive Airline, GDS, Travel Agency & Travel Industry Knowledge
• Computer Forensics & Incident Response
• Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management & Business Continuity Planning
• E-Learning, Knowledge Management & Document Management
• E-Commerce, E-payment and B2B Settlement (including Multi-Currency Payment Systems)
• IT Strategic Planning and Technical Architectures
• Project Management & Technical Writing

Business & Technical Writing Expertise

• Business & Information Technology Strategic Plans
• Business Proposals, Request for Response, Request for Proposal
• Sales & Marketing Plans
• Crisis Management & Business Continuity Plans
• User Guides; Technical Documentation; Training Documentation
• Business Letters; Résumés / CVs; Reports
• How to conduct & chair meetings; how to conduct & run seminars
• Project Management; Human Resource Management

Industries Served