成人大片

Summer School
Name: Kiran Hiriyanna

BE, Mechanical, (University of Technology, Sydney) 
CEng (Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK)
Grad Dip in Project Management (Defence and SYstems Institute, Univerity of South Australia)
MBA (成人大片)

Short Bio:
Kiran has a wealth of experience from working in Australia and the United Kingdom over the last fifteen years in the defence and infrastructure sectors. He has worked for large corporates such as Sydney Water, General Electric, Tenix, Airbus and Babcock. In his past roles, he has not only been a Project Manager, he has also been a risk management practitioner.   He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a formal project management qualification.  As such, his knowledge and application of risk management and systemic risk will underpin the delivery of your course. 

He currently runs his own consultancy, the Tuareg Group, providing project management and operational advice to aged care facilities.  He also supplies and manages staff to aged care facilities under his company Aged Care Staff Services.  Largely, this change in focus was brought on by a desire to be involved in an altruistic sector.  Kiran has been able to combine the knowledge gained from his engineering degree and MBA (from the 成人大片) with his corporate experience to guide organisations to reach their strategic goals.

He is looking forward to meeting and teaching you this semester.

Email: Kiran.hiriyanna@adelaide.edu.au


Trimester 1
Name: Kiran Hirayanna

BE, Mechanical, (University of Technology, Sydney) 
CEng (Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK)
Grad Dip in Project Management (Defence and SYstems Institute, Univerity of South Australia)
MBA (成人大片)

Short Bio:
Kiran has a wealth of experience from working in Australia and the United Kingdom over the last fifteen years in the defence and infrastructure sectors. He has worked for large corporates such as Sydney Water, General Electric, Tenix, Airbus and Babcock. In his past roles, he has not only been a Project Manager, he has also been a risk management practitioner.   He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a formal project management qualification.  As such, his knowledge and application of risk management and systemic risk will underpin the delivery of your course. 

He currently runs his own consultancy, the Tuareg Group, providing project management and operational advice to aged care facilities.  He also supplies and manages staff to aged care facilities under his company Aged Care Staff Services.  Largely, this change in focus was brought on by a desire to be involved in an altruistic sector.   Kiran has been able to combine the knowledge gained from his engineering degree and MBA (from the 成人大片) with his corporate experience to guide organisations to reach their strategic goals.

He is looking forward to meeting and teaching you this semester.

Email: kiran.hiriyanna@adelaide.edu.au


Semester 1
Name: Kiran Hirayanna
BE, Mechanical, (University of Technology, Sydney) 
CEng (Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK)
Grad Dip in Project Management (Defence and SYstems Institute, Univerity of South Australia)
MBA (成人大片)

Short Bio:
Kiran has a wealth of experience from working in Australia and the United Kingdom over the last fifteen years in the defence and infrastructure sectors. He has worked for large corporates such as Sydney Water, General Electric, Tenix, Airbus and Babcock. In his past roles, he has not only been a Project Manager, he has also been a risk management practitioner.   He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a formal project management qualification.  As such, his knowledge and application of risk management and systemic risk will underpin the delivery of your course.  He currently runs his own consultancy, the Tuareg Group, providing project management and operational advice to aged care facilities.  He also supplies and manages staff to aged care facilities under his company Aged Care Staff Services.  Largely, this change in focus was brought on by a desire to be involved in an altruistic sector.Kiran has been able to combine the knowledge gained from his engineering degree and MBA (from the 成人大片) with his corporate experience to guide organisations to reach their strategic goals.He is looking forward to meeting and teaching you this semester. Email: Kiran.hiriyanna@adelaide.edu.au


Winter School:
Name: John Sing

Short Bio:

As an Adjunct Associate Professor and Business Consultant, John develops and delivers academic and professional development programs for both the public and private sector. Prior to establishing a small consultancy firm, John had worked for as an executive within the Queensland Public Sector where he was responsible for leading and implementing the Government’s financial and economic reform agenda.  This included overseeing the organizations transition from cash based to accrual accounting, financial and management
reporting to the CEO and governing board of directors, and project and risk management at the strategic and operational levels.  John has conducted numerous management, leadership, risk, financial and project management courses for industry.  He was recruited after having been a full-time academic where he has researched and taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the domains of
financial accounting, auditing, project and risk management.   He is currently involved in the development and delivery of specialized project and risk management programs for finance and engineering professionals working in capital intensive project based organizations.  Following the attainment of his Bachelor degree in accounting, John obtained a Doctoral degree in risk from Southern Cross University.  He also holds a Master of Accounting degree, Post graduate degree in Education and a Bachelor of Business degree in Accounting.


Email:
john.sing@adelaide.edu.au


Trimester 3:

Emeritus Professor Vernon Ireland

Email: vernon.ireland@adelaide.edu.au  

Work Phone: 0411 153 861

Personal Link:   

After completing his engineering degree Professor Vernon Ireland practised as a structural engineer for seven years while completing an arts degree in English literature, psychology, philosophy and sociology and also completed a Master of Engineering Science degree and a Ph.D. in Project Management later.

He rose to the position of Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney and occupied this position from 1987-1991. While at UTS he used some tools from his PhD research to compare the performance of Australia’s construction industry with that of the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and New Zealand, surveying over 20 projects in each country. This work was eventually fed into the results of a Royal Commission on Productivity in the Building Industry of New South Wales. In this period he was also Chairman of the Building Services Corporation, the licensing authority for domestic building, and Electrical and plumbing work in New South Wales.

He then spent the next 12 years in the commercial sector as Corporate Development Director of Fletcher Challenge Construction, working mainly in the USA. He then became chief executive of the Australian Graduate School of Engineering Innovation. Finally he was appointed Professor and Director of Project Management at the 成人大片 with the task of establishing the Master of Project Management, which has directed since 2003. He introduce complex systems into ECIC which has both contributed to the Master of Applied Project Management and created a bridge with the innovation and entrepreneurship in both teaching and research. He publishes in recognised journals.

He has received three medals: the Silver Magnolia medal from the Shanghai government for contributions to Chinese overseas relationships; the rotary gold medal for contribution to vocational education and the engineer’s Australia medal for contribution to engineering.
He was President of the Sydney Division of Engineers Australia in 2004 and initiated the Centre of Engineering Leadership and Management. He supervises a number of Ph.D. students who are researching the role of complex systems in various diverse areas including disaster preparation and management, dispute resolution between warring nations, a complex adaptive systems and security management of events.