Tim Mansfield

Tim Mansfield

Senior Research Scientist at Queensland University of Technology

Sydney Area, Australia

Current
  • Senior Research Scientist at Queensland University of Technology
  • Rector of the Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel at Apostolic Johannite Church
  • Senior Researcher at Smart Services CRC
  • Principal at Tim Mansfield Design (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Convenor at Sydney Integral
  • Associate at Interaction Design and Work Practice Lab: UTS
Past
Education
  • The University of Queensland
  • The University of Queensland
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Tim Mansfield’s Summary

Tim Mansfield has ten years of experience in leading and co-ordinating human-centred, multi-disciplinary research about software. His core skills are an ability to grasp and synthesise multiple points-of-view in the pursuit of a design solution, a passion for working with diverse groups of people and a fascination with emerging software technology and trends of use.

Tim Mansfield’s Specialties:

user-centred design, integral frameworks, holistic design, social software, user-tailorability, end-user programming, web software


Tim Mansfield’s Experience

  • Senior Research Scientist

    Queensland University of Technology

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    June 2008Present (1 year 2 months)

    I'm working on the Services 2020 project at the Smart Services CRC using collaborative foresight approaches to understand the strategic environment of the service sector over the next ten years.

  • Rector of the Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel

    Apostolic Johannite Church

    (Religious Institutions industry)

    May 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    I have been an ordained priest in the apostolic succession since May 2008. My parish is based in Sydney, Australia and welcomes anyone.

  • Senior Researcher

    Smart Services CRC

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2008Present (1 year)

  • Principal

    Tim Mansfield Design (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Research industry)

    August 2005Present (4 years)

    TMD is a socio-technical design house. I work with a network of designers, programmers and social scientists to examine and understand a social or organisational issue, design a set of probes and courses of action and then coach a team to iteratively adapt those actions in a coevolutionary cycle. These solutions are usually partly changes to work practices or cultures, partly changes to systems, technology or environments.

  • Convenor

    Sydney Integral

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    January 2005Present (4 years 7 months)

    Sydney Integral is a community network of people interested in ways of approaching business, personal growth, sustainability and education that integrate complementary approaches to the exterior world of our bodies and behaviours and the interior world of our thoughts, feelings and vision. Members use the work of Ken Wilber, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Robert Kegan, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Jean Gebser and others to guide and focus their work.

  • Associate

    Interaction Design and Work Practice Lab: UTS

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2004Present (5 years)

  • Senior Research Scientist

    NICTA

    (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

    August 2007June 2008 (11 months)

    Contributing research leadership to the [braccetto] project which was aimed at improving distributed, intense collaboration support. I was involved with a project to understand the teamwork and technology use of distributed, multi-disciplinary breast cancer diagnosis.

  • Lecturer

    University of Technology, Sydney

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    February 2005June 2008 (3 years 5 months)

    I taught web technology and user-centred design to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in IT, Information Management and Design. I also supervise a group of graduate students in a variety of projects.

  • System Designer on Pool Project

    University of Technology, Sydney

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    January 2007December 2007 (1 year)

    Pool (http://www.pool.org.au) is a collaboration between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Woolloongong. I consulted on the functional design of the system, especially the social features, facilitated the multi-participant design process, built the initial beta version of the system and assisted with expanding the development team and infrastructure to allow open source development.

  • Senior Research Scientist

    DSTC

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1995July 2005 (10 years)

    Created and led multi-site research and development teams (5-10 staff); Chief architect of several distributed social software and interactive multimedia systems; Created and fostered collaborative relationships between researchers, commercial developers and university academics.

  • Senior Research Scientist

    Distributed Systems Technology Centre (UTS)

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20012005 (4 years)

  • Lecturer

    The University of Queensland

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20002000 (less than a year)


Tim Mansfield’s Education

  • The University of Queensland

    PhD , Computer Science , 19901995

    Thesis title: "Customisable Presentations of Complex Data"

    Activities and Societies:
    Drama Society, Debacle Theatre
  • The University of Queensland

    BA Hons , Computer Science , 19851988


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