
Senior Research Scientist at Queensland University of Technology
Sydney Area, Australia

Senior Research Scientist at Queensland University of Technology
Sydney Area, Australia
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.
user-centred design, integral frameworks, holistic design, social software, user-tailorability, end-user programming, web software
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2008 — Present (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.
(Religious Institutions industry)
May 2008 — Present (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.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Research industry)
August 2005 — Present (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.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2005 — Present (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.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — Present (5 years)
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
August 2007 — June 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.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2005 — June 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.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — December 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.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1995 — July 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.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
PhD , Computer Science , 1990 — 1995
Thesis title: "Customisable Presentations of Complex Data"
BA Hons , Computer Science , 1985 — 1988