UP Engineering Lecturer Specializing in Business Tech, Digital Economy & Project Management
1. LECTURER
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA – ENGINEERING, BUILT ENVIRONMENT & IT FACULTY – DEPARTMENT OF
INFORMATICS
KEY TEACHING THEMES
Business Driven Technology
Digital Economy
Financial Management of ICT
IS Audit & Control
Project Management of ICT
Systems Analysis & Design
AWARDS
University of Pretoria Doctoral Bursary 2010, 2011
National Research Foundation (NRF) & Department of Science & Technology (DST) Doctoral
Innovation Scholarship for 2011, 2012, 2013
Best Paper Finalist: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2011 - Roodt, S.,
De Villiers, C., (2011), Using YouTube as an Innovative Tool for Collaborative Learning at
Under-graduate level in Tertiary Education
OTHER SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Conference Chair for IAIM SIG:Education 2012 Orlando Florida
Programme Review Committee for 4th International Conference on Persuasive technology
2009
Session Chair at AIS SIGED: IAIM Annual International Conference 2011 for Online/Hybrid
Learning Associate Editor at European Conference on Information Systems 2012 for IS
Education
Session Chair at European Conference for Game Based Learning 2009 (ECGBL)
Session Chair at International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation 2010
(ICIME)
Session Chair at International Conference on Information Systems 2010 (ICIS)
Sponsorship Chair for European Conference on Information Systems 2012 (ECIS)
Team leader for CaseIT 2009 in Vancouver, Canada
COLLABORATION
Guest lecturer at GIBS (Sandton) as part of MBA: Customer Engagement course with
emphasis on Imagination & Technology
Invited to lecture the Masters: Financial Management module at the Uganda Martyrs
University in May 2011 in collaboration with the Vrije University (Holland)
Partnered with IBM SA to expose students to world-class experts in the fields of green IT for
sustainable development
Worked with the University of Joensuu, Finland to develop a mobile education game to
teach citizens in South Africa about energy usage
2. EXTERNAL CONSULTING WORK
Armscor (Department of Defense) – Database rationalization project
Department of Agriculture (DoA) – Development of ISP
Department of Communication – e-Skills Production Hub
GijimaAst – Development of Virtual World for OpenDay
Standard Bank – Emerging technologies consultation