Mark Dixon
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Biographical Sketch
Business & Industry Experience:
 Mark
Dixon is currently coordinating a project for The University of Western Australia
to implement a research management system based on InfoEd Global's software.
Mark
formed Anysize
Software, a business which provides software development
services to the Perth and international markets. Several
consultants service clients such as IBM
Global Services, Water
Corporation, Motorola,
Western Power, Alinta
Gas, BOC
(formerly CIG), Nestlé,
Challenge Bank, and
others. The fledgling group began in 1985 and grew steadily for 20 years.
Mark's
personal clients have included: IBM
Global Services, Australian
Institute of Mangement, Curtin
Business School, Curtin
Graduate School of Business, Murdoch
University, Western Power,
Alinta Gas, BOC
Gases, Challenge Bank,
Nestle, WA
Department of Minerals & Energy, Robe
River Mining, Platinum
Technology and The
Cooperative Federation of Western Australia. The IBM work
involved software development and support of mainframe
compiler internals. Other positions have included setting up
e-business systems in Electronic Data Interchange, electronic
banking systems, mainframe systems programming, telecommunications
programming & support, network installation, development and
support, and programming turnkey systems for business applications
on PCs and networks.
His
industry experience commenced in 1976 with a programmer position
at Sutherland
Shire Council (Sydney)
followed by Grace Brothers
Stores (Sydney, now part
of the Coles Myer group).
This was followed by short
and mid-length contract analyst programming assignments in USA,
England and Germany. Anysize was formed to provide
consulting services in Australia in 1985.
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Professional Associations:
Australian
Institute of Management (FAIM)
Australian
Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
Association
for Computing Machinery
Association
for Information Systems (ISworld)
IEEE
Computer Society
Network
and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA)
Academic Background:
Doctor
of Philosophy (PhD), dissertation on
electronic commerce for international trade finance, University
of Western Australia, completed 2006
Diploma
in Research Skills and Presentation from The
University of Western Australia, 2001
Master
of Business Administration (MBA), Murdoch
University 1997-98
Graduate
Diploma in Business (with Distinction), Curtin
University 1996
Bachelor
of Science, University of New South
Wales 1976
Teaching Experience:
Winner
of Excellence
in Teaching Award (Faculty) 2001
Commendation
for Excellence
in Teaching Award (Unit) 2001
Nominated
for Excellence
in Teaching Award (Unit) 2002
Nominated
for Excellence
in Teaching Award (Innovation) 2003
Network
Management 331 (UWA 2000, 2001, 2002)
EC203
Electronic Commerce Technologies (Curtin 1999)
EC503
Electronic Commerce Technologies (Curtin 1999)
C650
Applied Electronic Commerce (Murdoch 1998, 99)
C205
Business Data Communications (Murdoch 1999)
BP660
Business Performance (Guest only) (Curtin GSB 1997-2004)
Research Interests:
Promoting International Trade with Electronic Commerce, specifically
innovations to Letters of Credit, Bills of Lading and other
traditional trade documentation.
Promoting
Electronic Commerce in Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
Open
source software for business and e-commerce
Information
Visualisation
Co-operative
business
Publications:
Liu, F.,
Dixon, M. & Murphy, J.
2002, 'Exploring Online Buying and Online Trust in China' in Zwick,
R. and Ping, T. (eds.), Asia Pacific
Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. V,
2003.
Letch, N. & Dixon, M. eds. 2001, Proceedings of the 4th
Western Australian Workshop on Information Systems Research,
(WAWISR).
Liu, F. Dixon, M. & Lee,
G. 2001, 'Communication Media and Trust Building in the Chinese
Online Buying Context', Proceedings of the Australian and New
Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference 2001, December 3-5,
Aukland, New Zealand.
Dixon, M. & Bauer, C.
2000, 'Emerging Electronic Systems for International Trade',
Proceedings of the fifth CollECTeR Conference on Electronic
Commerce, December 13-14, Brisbane, Q.
Dixon, M. & Bauer, C.
2000, 'Towards a Generic Model of Electronic International Trade
Systems', Proceedings of the eleventh Australasian Conference on
Information Systems, December 6-7, Brisbane, Q.
Dixon, M. 2000, 'Electronic Commerce Systems for International
Trade', Australasian Conference on Information Systems Doctoral
Consortium, December 5, Brisbane, Q.
Dixon, M. & Bauer, C.
2000, 'A model for comparing electronic international trade systems',
Proceedings of the third Western Autralian Workshop on Information
Systems Research 2000, November, Edith Cowan University, Perth.
Dixon, M. 2000, 'International Money Movement', e-mmerce, June
(cover story).
Dixon, M. 1999, 'Streamlining international trade payments',
International Workshop on Transaction-based Electronic Commerce
1999, Curtin University, Perth.
Dixon, M. & Glasson, B.
1999, 'Electronic Payment Systems for International Trade', Western
Australian Workshop on Information Systems Research 1999, Murdoch
University, Perth.
Dixon, M. 1999, 'Digital Cash', Prometheus, Book Review, vol.
17, no. 4, pp. 470-471.
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