Information Technology

I have been working at Activate Training Centre for the past four and a half years in various roles, most recently joining as the ICT Head of School. The most enjoyable aspect of my job is establishing relationships with tutors, whanau and students as I believe strongly that working together will have a lifelong positive effect. I am committed to the success of students and will do everything that I possibly can to “move mountains” for them. Through patience and determination on both our parts, I have been able to see how students’ lives have been changed through learning and the generational effect this has had. In my spare time I enjoy mushing as I belong to the NZ Foundation of Sled Dog Sports. My qualifications include: Bachelor of Science in Psychology: Clinical Research and Counselling; National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (Level 5); Qualified Mental Health Professional (USA) and a Postgraduate Certificate in IT.

I have the role of National Administrator as well as International Coordinator at Vision College. I consider myself to be an extremely hard worker, loyal to my job, friends and family and I like to work within set boundaries and systems.

I have worked nearly 40 years in a variety of admin roles from local Councils, traffic department in Auckland, Westpac Bank, a charitable trust that works in Outdoor Education to tertiary level education. So although I don’t have the piece of paper that gives me a qualification in this area, I have picked up lots of skills over the years through working for these various organisations.

I enjoy my role at Vision College because its varied in content, it is extremely busy and I like being part of a team that enables other people to better themselves through education and achieve things they never thought possible.

I enjoy reading, knitting, gardening, walking and watching movies. In another lifetime I was a keen tramper (low level), skier, kayaker along with other outdoor activities. And I love Casper, a Bichon Friese dog!

Jatinder is an ISTQB certified Tester, Software Developer and Tutor. He has over 11 years of experience working in various roles such as Educator, Software Developer, Test Analyst and Project Manager/Business System Analyst. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree from Punjab Technical University, India. Currently, he is  under the process of enrolling in PhD major in Natural language, Machine learning and Text Mining at Auckland University of Technology.

He always emphasises on implementing novel logics to resolve complex software problems and coming up with unbeatable reasons and processes. He enjoys teaching at Vision college and encourages the students, to think out of box. He is utilising his industry experience in the class room so that the pupils can gain knowledge of real scenarios, because he believes, “the art of teaching is the art of assisting discoveries”.

Apart from his professional life, he loves activities such as, cooking, travelling, photography, driving and hiking.

People have described me as enthusiastic, a team player and trustworthy. The friendly and helpful nature of my colleagues at Vision College, East Tamaki campus, has inspired me a lot. I am passionate about teaching students with different culture and nationality. Students have bigger dreams and career aspirations and one of the most rewarding feelings of teaching is seeing a spark on a student’s face once they learn how to apply the knowledge they learnt in the classroom. The college management is constantly concerned about the quality of the education service we provide and they are quite serious and focused towards the goal of the institution. I have gained the following qualifications, PhD Running (Cloud Computing & E-Government), Auckland University of Technology, MSc. Information System Engineering, Himalayan Institute of Science & Technology, BE Electronics and Communication, Khwopa Engineering College. Outside work, I enjoy travelling, playing and listening music and sports.

Hi. I have recently joined Vision and thoroughly enjoy seeing the progress in student's abilities especially in the practical aspect of classwork. I have the following qualifications and work experience: Msc Computer Science and working on PhD in Computer Science; I’m majoring  in Natural Language Processing in short texts and have 5 years experience in system and database administration roles.

People describe me as hardworking, a team player and friendly, and I am an outdoors person that enjoys swimming, playing soccer, running, cycling and mountain climbing.

Jeffrey completed his computer science degree at Cardiff University and his masters degree in computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He has been working at Vision College as a web tutor since 2007. He appreciates the practise of Christian values within the college. His academic interests include ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, object-oriented methodologies, web usability and computer algorithms. Jeffrey’s passion is to impart his web development skills to his web students for their career advancement and be successful in life. In his leisure time, Jeffrey likes swimming, enjoys church life and watches EPL soccer. 

I am a trained and experienced teacher with a Masters from Waikato University, and have spent over 17 years teaching IT at various levels. Enthusiastic and creative I craft my course to cover cutting edge and new technologies. The small classes and a flexible syllabus means we can rapidly change our content to meet the fast changing needs in the Software workforce, and that’s what makes it fun.  Programming may be complex, but it is never boring.

When  my fingers are prised away from the keyboard I enjoy the outdoors from running to tramping to cycling and exploring the countryside. You need to be physically fit to be mentally sharp; and three words that best describe me are: Enthusiastic, -  I love software and programming; Autodidactic – it’s the essence of a software developer, you have to be a self learner; and Creative – I love change and new experiences, software is always on the move and there are so many avenues to explore, that time is the greatest enemy.