Adrian Maidment, the Programme Coordinator, has over ten years media experience and is passionate about helping students achieve their best. Adrian has worked at radio stations in Australia, and was the Creative Director at Mediaworks Radio Tauranga. He is happy to speak to any students who may be interested in careers in radio or advertising.
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Adrian Maidment
Academic Staff Member
Subject Area: Radio Broadcasting
Alice Jones
Programme Coordinator, Senior Academic Staff Member
"I completed my Masters in Zoology at Auckland University and then travelled for some time overseas. Since joining the Applied Science, BOP Polytechnic team in 2000, I have spent some time in Costa Rica which as a country has dedicated a great deal of resources to their environment, health and education. My heart lies with ecological restoration and our diminishing biodiversity and I am deeply concerned with worldwide conservation issues.
I now coordinate the Environmental Management Year Two students, and teach some of the Courses within the Diploma. BOP Polytechnic has a very hands-on and supportive approach to learning, yet still arms students with the essential tertiary level skills and academic background to enable them to graduate with a Diploma and Degree (Waikato BSc) in the Biological Sciences field. The focus on Environmental Management is essential and increasingly topical in today’s world."
Subject Area: Environmental Management
Alireza Gheitasi
Academic Staff Member
Alireza has held several industrial roles including electrical technician in a steel company, project engineer in a thermal power plant, and maintenance engineer and technical supervisor in a sugar factory in Persia. He's been involved in several industrial research projects in the Centre of Research in Applied Electronics (UM), Centre of Research in Advanced Power System (UKM), and Centre for Sensor Network & Smart Environment. His main research interest is industrial fault diagnosis.
Alireza has been a lecturer in area of electrical engineering since 2009. His previous carrier was tutor of bachelor of electrotechnology in the UNITEC and he now tutors the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic's National Diploma in Engineering (Electrical) Level 6, and enjoys living in Tauranga.
Alireza has been working toward an industrial research project in Centre for Sensor Network & Smart Environment in Auckland University of technology since 2008. His areas of expertise are:
- Industrial fault diagnosis
- Power monitoring and quality assessment
- Industrial control and automation
Qualifications: Bsc, MscEng, PhD(TBC2012)
Subject Area: Electrotechnology & Electrical, Engineering & Welding
Alireza Gheitasi
Academic Staff Member
Alireza has held several industrial roles including electrical technician in a steel company, project engineer in a thermal power plant, and maintenance engineer and technical supervisor in a sugar factory in Persia. He's been involved in several industrial research projects in the Centre of Research in Applied Electronics (UM), Centre of Research in Advanced Power System (UKM), and Centre for Sensor Network & Smart Environment. His main research interest is industrial fault diagnosis.
Alireza has been a lecturer in area of electrical engineering since 2009. His previous carrier was tutor of bachelor of electrotechnology in the UNITEC and he now tutors the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic's National Diploma in Engineering (Electrical) Level 6, and enjoys living in Tauranga.
Alireza has been working toward an industrial research project in Centre for Sensor Network & Smart Environment in Auckland University of technology since 2008. His areas of expertise are:
- Industrial fault diagnosis
- Power monitoring and quality assessment
- Industrial control and automation
Qualifications: Bsc, MscEng, PhD(TBC2012)
Subject Area: Electrotechnology & Electrical, Engineering & Welding
Andrew Targett
Academic Staff Member - Hospitality
Talented chef Andrew Targett is one of the highly experienced chefs on Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s hospitality tutoring team.
Andrew has wide experience both here and in Australia, having worked at some top eateries, including Kingston Hotel, Pearl and Vital Ingredient in Melbourne, and locally at Mills Reef, Latitude, Harbourside, Kestrel and Sebel Trinity Wharf.
Andrew feels that he has been really lucky to work with many amazing eateries, which have kept him fresh and focused on creating new ideas.
Andrew has always been passionate about good food and cooking, so once finishing school he decided to complete Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s one year Hospitality programme.
From there Andrew was lucky enough to gain an apprenticeship with local foodie icon Somerset Cottage in Bethlehem. From there, the world was his oyster!
Subject Area: Hospitality
Anne Shirley
Fashion Design Tutor
"I remember standing in the dining room with my eyes reaching the top of the well-worn oak dining table. The sound of the scissors scraping across the table, as my mother cut through the layers of cream clydella, was comforting in both its familiarity and its signal of a new baby in the house."
Qualifications:
- Masters of Art and Design
- Bachelor of Mediarts
- Diploma in Teaching
Industry Experience:
- Fusemedia Design
- Art and Design Practice
- Photography Practice
- Teaching
Awards:
- Top Design Student Award 1998
- Pan Print Design Award 1997
Subject Area: Fashion, Graphic Design
Anne Shirley
Fashion Design Tutor
"I remember standing in the dining room with my eyes reaching the top of the well-worn oak dining table. The sound of the scissors scraping across the table, as my mother cut through the layers of cream clydella, was comforting in both its familiarity and its signal of a new baby in the house."
Qualifications:
- Masters of Art and Design
- Bachelor of Mediarts
- Diploma in Teaching
Industry Experience:
- Fusemedia Design
- Art and Design Practice
- Photography Practice
- Teaching
Awards:
- Top Design Student Award 1998
- Pan Print Design Award 1997
Subject Area: Fashion, Graphic Design
Anne-Marie Simon
Fashion Tutor – Certificate
“I love to interact with my students. Sharing my skills and knowledge with them and watching them create and achieve is very rewarding.”
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Clothing and Textiles
Industry Experience:
- Pagani
- Sportime Manufacturing
- Apparel Corp
- Tree International
Subject Area: Fashion
Barry Dawe
Academic Staff Member
Barry completed his apprenticeship in Wellington where he worked for a number of years before moving to Tauranga. He worked for Ford and then BMW for ten years. For four of those years he was their service manager at Mount Maunganui. This ignited his interest in European vehicles and he became a franchisee for "Super Chips", which specialises in reprogramming ECU’s (Electronic Control Units) to increase a cars performance and economy, an area he is still involved in.
Barry has a passion for rebuilding and racing ride-on-mowers.
Subject Area: Automotive
Caroline Schweder-Goad
Senior Academic Staff Member
I mainly teach about marine mammals, aquaculture, marine tourism, fisheries management, marine reporting (projects) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
After a BSc, a BA and a teaching diploma. I spent three years teaching science, bio and Spanish at a secondary school. I was then an outdoor instructor at the Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Tongariro National Park, and carried on over to Scotland to do an MSc in Marine & Fisheries Science. My research was on creating models for the distribution of whales and dolphins around the West coast of Scotland which I presented in 2004 at a conference in Sweden.
My interests range from marine mammals to fisheries and general marine conservation, especially in amazing places around the world.
Alongside this I spend my time gallivanting around the globe, snowboarding, kiting, surfing, climbing or somewhere amongst nature.
Subject Area: Marine Studies
