About
John Wiese. Masters of Project Management (MPM), Certified Practicing Project Director (CPPD), B.Sc
About the author. John Wiese is a professional and formally trained Project Manager who believes in simple principles. You’re in business to make a profit; people determine outcomes (not tools) and a few key processes yield wonderful results! I advocate completing projects to budget; otherwise you are running a charity and effectively paying the customer!
I have a thirst for knowledge and passion for learning. This comes in handy when working with customers who like to maintain a technology edge for strategic advantage. Hence I’ve established high value relationships with leading universities including:
This includes personally supporting the institutions by being a:
- School of Computing Advisory Board Member, Curtin 2001 – present
- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Industry Advisory Panel, UWA 2005 - present
- Regular Guest Lecturer at Curtin University and UWA
- Student supervisor for Curtin and UWA industry projects
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) PROJECTS
In 2001 I established a strong relationship with Curtin University, Western Australia. Each year I choose an R&D project and then host 3-4 final year students who are completing a Bachelor of Engineering Degree. As the student’s “major project” they work one day a week on-site with me over 9 months. The students gain valuable knowledge and first hand industry experience. I benefit from the opportunity to vet for potential new employees and gain prototypes which can be used to convince customers to explore new technologies (ie – student R&D is an effective risk mitigation strategy before committing to emerging technologies).
R&D PROJECTS
- 2011 – Leveraging OpenSource GIS Technologies for Advanced Information Systems Visualisation
- 2010 – Agent Based Modeling (ABM) of Optimum Vehicle Paths
- 2009 – Agent Based Modeling (ABM) of Urban Terrorist Threats
- 2008 – Algorithms for Automatic Network Link Optimisation
- 2007 – Advanced Trend and Temporal Visualisation: “Periodic Event Arc Representation”
- 2006 – Web2 Technology: “Dynamic Web Forms with AJAX Frameworks”
- 2005 – Information Management: “Integrating New Desktop Search Technologies”
- 2004 – Data Visualisation: “Temporal and Grid Visualisation of Multi-Category Data Sets”
- 2003 – Data Visualisation: “Timeline Visualisation Techniques”
- 2002 – Geographic Information Systems: “Map Projection Investigation”
- 2001 – Geographic Information Systems: “Real-time Image Re-projection onto Maps”
CONTRIBUTIONS
- Australian Institute of Project Management Magazine Interview (AIPM), 2011
- International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS 2011) – Paper covering the application of Agent Based Modeling (ABM) to “Vehicle Simulation and Interception for Military Command and Control Systems”
- Project Management Lecture Slides, 2010
- Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), 2007