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MARINO A. MIDDLETON 284 Skyline Drive Gibsons, British Columbia V0N 1V8 Tel: (604) 886-6661 e-mail isoplus@istar.ca. http://home.istar.ca/~isoplus_____________________________________ _EDUCATION University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. B.A. (Psychology) 1968 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. 5th year (Educational Psychology) Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia M.A. (Education, administration) 1980 Masters Thesis: " An exploratory study of the relationship of study habit, expected grade and instructor effectiveness to academic performance". CAREER EXPERIENCE A. Teaching and Education Tianjin Polytechnic University , Tianjin China 2005-2007- Professor Taught first and second year business courses under contract to Capilano College Higher Education Institute (Canada) in Organizational Behaviour, Statistics,Business Law,Marketing, Managerial Finance, Financial Accounting, Management Information Systems, Strategic Management, Management, Business Mathematics Canadian College of the Sudan Khartoum, Professor 2001,2002,2003 .2004 on contract for Kingston College Taught the following courses to graduate and undergraduate students: Management Science, Marketing Management, Management Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, International Business. On contracts to Kingston College and the American University of London/conducted private seminars on e-commerce law, MIS to judges, lawyers, security forces, business and bureaucracies. Kingston College Instructor 1999 to 2001 Instruct courses in Organizational Psychology, and Entrepreneurship , Principles of Management , Marketing to students in B.A. and M.B.A. programs registered with the American University in London, Central Michigan University and Kingston College University of New Brunswick St. Johns, Faculty of Business Adjunct Professor 1999 Instruct courses in People and Leadership and Marketing Management to students in M.B.A. programs at Kingston College Burnaby, registered with the University of New Brunswick, St. Johns.Text (People and Leadership): Organizational Behaviour Canadian English Edition, Hellriegel et al. Eighth Edition, Nelson,1998.Text (Marketing Management) Marketing Canadian Insights and Applications, Crane et al. Irwin, 1997 MARINO MIDDLETON Kingston College Instructor 1999 Instruct courses in Organizational Psychology, and Entrepreneurship , Principles of Management ,to students in B.A. and M.B.A. programs registered with the American University in London, Central Michigan University and Kingston College BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1990 Burnaby, British Columbia Instructor, Marketing Research and Marketing. Delivered lectures to second year marketing research students, conducted marketing research labs, conducted labs and reviews for first year marketing students. Assigned projects, marked assignments, tests and set exams. VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE 1982-1983 1988 Instructor, Provincial Instructors Diploma Program. (1988) Instructed Evaluation of Learning and Instruction to individuals who wished to provide instruction in their public or private institutions. Prepared curricular materials, test materials and audio-visual aids related to the course. Topics included educational evaluation terminology and issues, criterion referenced and norm referenced testing, lessons, written tests and performance test development, aptitude and vocational interest tests, models for evaluation of instruction. Instructor, Marketing, Marketing research (1982 1983) Prepared curriculum covering introductory marketing and marketing research. Instructed marketing course covering the following areas: marketing concepts, marketing research, and international marketing. PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, MINISTRY OF ADVANCED EDUCATION 1976 - 1985 Assistant Director, Program Research and Curriculum Development Supervised from three to five staff on research projects in support of needs studies, institutional program evaluation, federal/provincial human manpower and curriculum development issues for a variety of industrial sectors hospitality, tourism ,recreation, welding etc.. Responsible for the systematic review of courses, programs and faculty by scheduling program content research; liaison with standing advisory committees; setting up studies and systems on program graduates; and performing statistical analyses of program performance. Investigated special problem areas (program or course validity and specific concerns expressed by constituencies, institutions and/or individuals); carried out evaluation and organisational studies, translated statistical data and prepared reports for use by management in decision making process. Consulted to staff and committees regarding curriculum development, evaluation and organisational performance measures. Developed and conducted statistical task analytic procedures and prepared curricula outlines and evaluation materials; developed criterion referenced test items for career preparation courses. Consulted on educational testing. In addition, made recommendations on executive and policy matters requested by the Minister, Councils, and Boards; advised on the institutional distribution, expansion, contraction and revision of courses and programs, designed and implemented follow up studies and prepared annual budgets, contracts and tender proposal summaries for the research section. Administered and monitored contracts .for curriculum support for the Province of British Columbia. Participated in joint provincial and federal education and manpower studies. MARINO MIDDLETON VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD, BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES 1974 -1976 Educational Researcher, - Educational Services Group Conducted surveys, evaluated curriculum programs, analysed data, wrote reports and consulted on research design issues, data analysis and systems design problems. Prepared reports and working papers for committees and trustees on a wide variety of educational and planning issues including surveys relating to satisfaction with courses. B. Business and Consulting ISOPLUS QUALITY SYSTEMS LIMITED President 1995 to 2001 Company provided seminars, consulting services, development of expert and multimedia system software on ISO 9000, ISO 14,000 International Standard Organisation Quality Management Assurance and Quality Environmental Management) ISM for ships and the Maritime industries and other standards for both private and public organisations domestic and internationally. The company provides services involving on site training, marketing research, risk assessment and organisational change/development and business planning, management consulting and. SRED (Scientific Tax Consulting) to a large variety of Industrial clients Sierra Gigante Resources 2001 Consultant, Operations Manager developed and became part owner of international self listing industrial auction and web page site. Developed security protocols, consulted on privacy and intellectual property issues Listed to Nasdaq Bulletin Board and sold. CONSULTING ACTIVITIES 1985 - present Under the proprietorship of East West Consultants carried out a wide variety of contracts with corporations, governments, statistical analyses for ESL assessments, building surveys, dental assessment studies for UBC, needs studies for colleges individuals, domestic and international. Included in these was extensive SPSS X data analyses, organisational studies and consulting to Canada Safeway. Management consulting to numerous businesses on organizational and tax issues Consulting and preparation of SRED (Scientific Research and Experimental Development) Tax refunds for a variety of industrial clients. C. Health and Social Services PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, MINISTRY OF HEALTH 1985 - 1989 Forensic Psychiatric Services Senior Policy and Program Analyst. Supervised two staff. Responsible for program evaluation and organisational studies, statistical analyses, assessment procedures. Consulted with Ministry of Attorney General regarding studies on adult criminal psychiatric offenders. Developed evaluation procedures for treatment programs. MARINO MIDDLETON RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY 1973 Psychologist. Designed , implemented and evaluated treatment programs, assisted in behaviour modification therapy, interviewed patients for specific treatment programs, conducted individual and group sessions. Administered, scored interpreted a variety of clinical tests. Prepared reports. CITY OF VANCOUVER 1969-71 Social Worker. Provided supportive case services, counselling and welfare administration to families and single women in the Kitsilano area of Vancouver. Prepared special staff committee reports for emergency and special requests under legislation related to welfare and requests requiring regional director or Ministerial approval. Interviewed and counselled clients. D. SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE Windows XP, , Microsoft Office 97 , 2000, all components including MS Access) Frontpage SPSS:X (mainframe) and SPSS:X PC V10.0 SYSTAT , PROGRAM LANGUAGES: HTML, Coldfusion, Javascript, Visual Basic, QUICKBASIC,TURBO PROLOG, OMNIPAGE/FOTOFINISH /MAIN PROGRAM INTEREST : EXPERT AND ADVISORY SYSTEMS , Computer Assisted Learning / Software Developed ISOPLUS 9000/ISM V3.0 for Maritime industries, training, auditing implementation/ISOPLUS 14,000 V1.0 CD ROM (multimedia)ISOPLUS ISM INTRANET V1.0 Intranet capable training/auditing program ISOPLUS 9000 V2.0 "Windows Series" ISO 9000 Training, Auditing and implementation software. Sold to Fortune 500 Companies and SME’s internationaly ISOPLUS 9000 V1.0 : An expert system for the implementation of ISO 9000 quality management and assurance standards EPM V1.0 : an expert system to access EPA/ISO environmental lab standards. E. INTERESTS Judo (brown belt) swimming, hiking, classical music, opera. Have travelled extensively to the following countries , numerous times :HONG KONG, PHILIPPINES JAPAN, THAILAND, KOREA, BRUNEI, MALAYSIA, CHINA ,SINGAPORE, INDONESIA , MEXICO, , MACCAU, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, GREECE, NETHERLANDS, CHILE, BELGIUM, U.S.A., SUDAN, UAE F. PUBLICATIONS: Researched and wrote 44 reports and international publications, concerning leadership, risk taking, evaluation, needs analyses (hospitality, recreation, welding, child care etc. programs) curriculum development, mathematical decision theory, task analysis, perception, instructional development, program evaluation, organisational analysis. List of publications and samples available G. REFERENCES : Available upon request. International Publications Refereed journals Davenport, W.G. and Middleton M.A., "Expectation theories of decision making for Duplex Gambles Acta Psychologica 1973 a Vol 37, 155-172 Middleton, M.A and Warren L. "Risk taking effects on group decision making J. of Psychology 1972,82 196-198 Middleton , M.A. and Davenport, W.G. " The effect of prior and subsequent context on expectancy restoration" Perceptual and Motor skills , 1973, 36, 263-266 Davenport, W.G. and Middleton M.A. , "A model for the prediction of non repeatable decisions " Journal of General Psychology 1974, 91 201-207 Gray, W. Blout, G. and Middleton , M.A. , "Will open area schools survive?" B.C. Teacher March April 1978, Vol 57 No. 4 Conference (Psychometrics) Davenport W. G. and Middleton M.A. ,"Multi-stage inference, effect of duplex gambles on " Paper presented at Psychometrics conference St. Louis , M.O. Nov 1 : F: Vancouver School Board Reports: Published 16 reports on Program Evaluation , Follow-Up and Assessment Issues List Available upon request: 1973 Plus G: MINISTRY OF ADVANCED EDUCATION REPORTS: June 1983 Report Middleton, M.A. " A Survey of BTSD( Basic Training and Skill Development) Instructors Opinions Regarding Continuous and Non- Continuous Intake Policies" Program research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education January 1983 Report Middleton, M. A. " Computer Programmer Demand Survey" Research and Program Development, Ministry of Advanced Education March 1983 Ministry Of Advanced Education Discussion Paper Middleton, M.A. " An exploration of Management Style, Institutional Environments and Perceived Adequacy of Performance Measures as Related to Institutional Evaluation. " Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education July 1982 Report Middleton, M.A. "Early Childhood Education , A survey of Practicioners" Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education December 1981 Report Middleton, M. A. " Task analysis of Recreation Worker" Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education December 1981 Report Middleton, M.A. "Task Analysis and Validation Procedures for DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) (used statistical factor analytic techniques to delineate tasks and their associated skill sets and clustering of tasks) Program research and Development, Ministry of advanced Education December 1981, Report Middleton, M.A. and Sage, D.C. "Northern Lights College Community Interests and Training Needs" Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education September 1979 Report Middleton, M.A. and Sage, D.C. " Study of Training Demand. Skill and Hiring Preferences for Cooks and waiter/Waitress Training 1972-1979 Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education March 1979 Report Middleton, M.A. " Pilot test of Follow up Model for Malaspina College". Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education March 1980 Report Middleton, M.A. "Student Follow Up System For Vocational Training Programs in British Columbia" (design, implementation and ongoing Management Information System for 20 Colleges and Institutes on program Graduates) Started operation March 1980 with regular reports to Colleges and Institutes, Ministry of Advanced Education and Post Secondary Councils.) Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education November 1980 Report Middleton. M.A. "Junior Computer Programmer Survey" Program research and Development , Ministry of Advanced Education December 1978 Report Middleton, M.A. "Follow up study of Graduates of the Electronic Technician Course In B.C. 1973-1976 " Program research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education June 1978, Report Middleton. M.A. "Statistical Profile of Northern Lights College" Program Research and Development , Ministry of Advanced education February , 1978 Research Report Middleton, M.A. "Evaluation of the Satellite Tele-Education(STEP) in British Columbia Program Research and Development (Report evaluated feasibil;ity and performance of Tele Education System As part of program delivery for Open Learning Institute later to be OLA (Open Learning Agency Report Commissioned by Distance Education planning Group May 1978 Report Middleton, M.A. "Survey of Power Engineering Correspondence Students" Program Research and Development , Ministry of Advanced Education December 1977 Report Middleton, M.A. "A Survey of welders and Employers of Welders " Program Research and Development, Ministry of Advanced Education(Report commissioned by the B.C. Welding Comittee)( Changed Welding reporting system and codes,safety practices etc.) Research Report 1978 Blunt,A. and Middleton, M.A. "An Analysis of Participation in Basic Training for Skill Development"Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Training Technical Services and Program Research and Development Ministry of Advanced Education March 1977 Research Report Middleton, M.A. "A study of Career Counselling Publicity Materials in B.C. Curriculum and program Development Branch ministry of Advanced Education October 1976 Research Report Middleton, M.A. " A decision Model Evaluation of the Apprenticeship Program in Floor Covering Installation" Division of post secondary education Curriculum and Program Development Branch, Ministry of Education. Research Report August 1976 Middleton, M.A. "An Evaluation of the Pre-apprentice and Apprenticeship Program in Sign Painting" Division of Post-Secondary Education,Curriculum and Program Development Branch, Ministry Of Advanced Education, (Report commissioned by Ministrty of Labour) > |
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