[Catalist] Looking for work

[Yarra Korczynskyj]

God that's depressing??!


On 12-Dec-17 8:37 PM, Leon Harris wrote:
> Hi to all.
> A close friend and colleague of mine is searching for work next year.
> She is a STEM expert, and a good operator in the classroom, having 
> taught in both low socioeconomic and high socioeconomic status schools 
> for the last 7 years.
>
> Her subject area is Biology (having taught both Y11 and Y12 classes 
> over the past 5 years) and Maths. However, she has a couple of years 
> of a physics degree and an honours degree in biotechnology.
>
> She is a STEM expert, with extensive software development skills 
> (dating back to when she founded an IT database-writing company. If 
> you have seen World Firefighters Games or Mall Manager, you would know 
> some of her clients). Her programming languages iclude, Access, VBA, 
> C/C++ in an Arduino context, python (she designed, built and wrote a 
> burglar alarm to run on a Raspberry Pi in python), and BASH. She also 
> wrote software for Australia's beamline at The Photon Factory in 
> Japan, in the days before we had our own synchrotron, and has 
> reasonable Linux systems administration skills (to the level that one 
> would expect of a web developer in a LAMP environment).
>
> She also has presented at a number of teacher PDs, including CONSTAWA, 
> and is active in developing STEM strategies, particularly mechatronics 
> that is aimed at getting girls engaged in STEM. Her current school is 
> implementing an interactive, virtual tour of the history of the 
> school, based on a technology framework she designed.
>
> Quite a talent, in my opinion.
>
> These times are hard in schools - anecdotally mine has just received a 
> 1.7 million dollar recurrent haircut, and many others have been 
> skinned by a comparable amount. It is also a sad fact that systemic 
> (as distinct from personal) ageism and sexism are features of the 
> education system - many women find it hard to enter or return to the 
> sector after taking time off for child rearing, leading to a 
> differential penalty on our female colleagues for reproduction, a not 
> insignificant task that is essential to our society!
>
> So the lack of an ability to go country, all those years ago, a change 
> of education sector, and a series of contracts has meant that come 
> this year's hard times, she does not have a job this next year.
>
> If anyone knows of anyone who needs a smart operator, who does not 
> generate behaviour problems, who is autonomous and highly skilled, 
> please drop me a line off list.
>
> Cheers,
> Leon
>
>
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