Brief Curriculum Vitae - Charles McCathieNevile

Employment, General Skills, Education, Achievements, Personal details, Referees, Full CV

Recent Employment History

June 1997 - present: Littleguy

Current contract work:

• Member of W3C Team
  • Semantic Web Advanced Development - Europe project

Previous work includes:

• Accessibility review of American Express.com
• W3C Staff contact - Protocols and Formats group
• Education and Outreach work - presentations and working with developers in over 15 countries
• W3C Staff Contact and Co-editor - Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
• Web Accessibility review and redesign for Victorian government, Mitchelton Winery
• Teaching accessibility to Web Design students at RMIT University
• Web design and accessibility consulting for Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
• Payroll system Web interface programming for RMIT Human Resources Group

January 2003 - present: Vice-presidente Fundación Sidar

• Maintaining various discussion fora for accessibility in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Gallego. The main general forum is over 500 people, with others treating more specific topics.
• Collaborative tool development
• Organising courses, including maintenance of an online manual, up to date with most recent work available in accessibility
• Participating in an extensive translation program working with voluntary translators

Skills

Research

Effective search skills using Internet, library, journal indexing and other resources. Ability to initiate and carry out extended research projects. The ability to learn new skills quickly.

Communication (written and oral)

Teaching computing skills to people from a wide variety of backgrounds: from Primary students to Tertiary academics. Collaborating with corporate management, clerical and 'coal-face' staff to design and complete projects under pressure. Complex customer relations under pressure (for example tactfully removing aggressive drunks from pubs and making other customers happy about the friendly environment, at the same time).

Languages

I have learned a wide range of languages, both in a formal setting and informally. As well as excellent written and spoken English (my native language) I have good communication skills in French and Spanish, fair skills in Italian, with some ability to converse in German and Japanese, and read Latin (reasonably well). I have rudimentary skills in several other languages, and can learn them very fast..

Organisation

Planning and overseeing a variety of projects concurrently. Co-ordinating people with varied skills to maximise the collective output of a group.

Hard Work

Ability to work long shifts performing physically or mentally demanding work. (And I can reach the top shelf.) I derive great pleasure from learning new skills and ideas.

Driving and Travel

I have worked as a professional courier, and driven in excess of 160,000 km for business in a year. In the last five years I have travelled approximately 1 million miles, through every continent except Antarctica.

Education

Present

Currently enrolled part time in a Master of Arts degree at RMIT school of Animation and Interactive Multimedia. Co-supervised by Geoff Freed of WGBH Boston's National Center for Accessible Media, my research project is investigating the accessibility of multimedia to people with disabilities or limited infrastructure.

Previous highest standard reached:

Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in medieval History, University of Melbourne, 1999

Achievements

• Becoming Vice President of la Fundación Sidar - a Spanish language accessibility group
• Teaching courses on Accessible Web Design in Spanish.
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines becoming a W3C Recommendation
• Creating the first example of Accessible font design and usage in SVG
• Being invited to work at W3C, and moving to the USA for a year to take up the position.
• Being appointed as a Research Associate to the faculty of engineering at Monash University.
• Completing my Honours degree (gaining First-Class Honours) while working full-time.
• Setting up and 'fostering' the Medieval recreation society Nordmannia, a group of people who, despite no formal recognition of membership have managed to be recognised in Melbourne as one of the best-organised and most successful Medieval groups, putting on large-scale public events at very short notice, of very high quality. (Two examples are a feast for 200 people, of five courses, served as a sit-down meal with drinks and entertainment, organised in slightly more than 24 hours, and the 1999 Australasian Medieval Convention - a fully-catered 4 day event for about 300)
• Teaching the first Vietnam National University Certificate of World Wide Web Technology course (Hanoi) - the first course of its kind in Vietnam.

Personal Details

Name: Charles McCathieNevile

Date of Birth: 3 June 1970

Citizenship: Australian

References:

Dr Daniel Dardailler

Director for Europe
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C-ERCIM BP 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
France
Phone: +33.4 92.38.79.83
Email: danield@w3.org

Mr Jonathan O'Donnell

Formerly: Director of Information Technology,
Faculty of Art Design and Communication, RMIT University
Now at: National Gallery of Victoria
Phone +61 3 9208 0385
Email: jonathan.odonnell@ngv.vic.gov.au

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