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RESUME of MURRAY THOMPSON
Landscape Artist, Website Design, Proof Reading, Ecological Articles
NAME:
Murray Stewart THOMPSON (BApp Sci Environmental Health, Hons I Social Ecology (1998, 1999 – University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury)
ADDRESS:
Unit 15, 30 Sirius Road, Bligh Park NSW 2756 Australia
DATE OF BIRTH:
19 September, 1955
TELEPHONE & EMAIL:
Home: (02) 45 726156, Mobile: 0438 726156;
Email: dreedlegilf@yahoo.com
SECONDARY EDUCATION:
ALEXANDRA HIGH SCHOOL – ALEXANDRA, VICTORIA
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY, HAWKESBURY – RICHMOND, NSW
2006 -- 2000
Currently completing a PhD in Sociology part-time.
1999 -- 1996
1995
Successful completion of first year of Degree in Applied Science – Systems Agriculture (Degree discontinued in favor of above Degree in Environmental Health).
UWS COURSE WORK EXPERIENCE:
Duties/Modalities/Subjects
* Research in Farming Systems, and Farm Case Studies, inc. orchard soil salinity assessment and ecological impact (Ecosystems & Agriculture).
* Human Activity Systems & Contemporary Issues in Agriculture.
* Environment & Community Studies (Community Health Promotion).
* Epidemiology.
* Landscape Plants, and Landuse & the Environment.
* Environmental Health Issues/Practice & Environmental Management Systems.
* Wilderness values & landscape conservation.
* Soil carbon, nitrogen, texture and macroflora / fauna tests.
* Management of Aquatic Environments: Water quality testing and aquatic Environmental Impact Assessment in the Hawkesbury River and Longneck Lagoon, including the recreational development of wetland sites.
* Major Study (final year Degree): Pollution impacts, weed eradication strategy, weed identification and mapping (computer graphics) at Yarramundi Lagoon for John Cauchi, Director of the Penrith Catchment Centre.
* Terrestrial pre-development Environmental Impact Assessment and post-development Environmental Auditing, Environmental Impact Statements, and Contaminated Sites Assessment.
* Statistical analyses of plant and animal populations.
* Occupational, Health and Safety evaluation of industrial sites (Occupational Health in Practice).
* Chemical, biological, microbiological & toxicological studies, & animal dissection techniques.
* Environmental Impact Assessment in wastewater treatment facilities.
* Environmental and technological philosophical studies (Philosophical Perspectives in Environmental Education), including studies in Fascism and the modern pharmaceutical history, and the ethical dimensions of the current science paradigm.
* Complexity Theory.
* Research Methodology, Research Methods & Critique, Critical Perspectives On Learning, and Advanced Research Design.
1994
RICHMOND COLLEGE OF TAFE – RICHMOND, NSW
Advanced Certificate in Farm Technology with Distinction (Highest Pass in Plant Production Subjects).
TAFE COURSE WORK EXPERIENCE:
Duties/modalities/subjects
* Cattle yard design and construction, and horse shed construction; cattle roundup, vaccination, backlining (tick control) and fencing (inc. electrical fences).
* Cattle, sheep, pig slaughtering, and butchery.
* Sheep vaccination, backlining, drenching, clipping and branding.
* Shearing shed operations: throwing and sorting fleeces, bailing wool.
* Agricultural weed identification, characteristics and spraying (Rural Chemical Practice, inc. Chemical Applications Equipment).
* Tractor and chainsaw operations.
* Arc welding and thermal cutting.
* Cash book accounting (Farm Office Practice, inc. Computer Applications in Agriculture).
* Farm design.
1993
PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGES OF AUSTRALIA (PBCA) – BLACKTOWN, NSW
PBCA COURSE WORK EXPERIENCE:
Duties/modalities/subjects
* Room preparation for admissions.
* General observations – blood pressure, pulse and temperature records.
* Physiological and psychological aspects of ageing, surgery and disease.
* Hygiene and infection control.
* Occupational Health and Safety.
* Bed making.
* Lifting, washing, showering and pressure care of patients.
* Communication and record keeping skills.
* St John Ambulance Senior First Aid Certificate (since lapsed).
1988
BURWOOD EVENING COLLEGE – BURWOOD, NSW
1986
PRIVATE STUDY UNDER BRIAN LIU (Dip. Acupuncture -- Sydney)
Certificate of Completion – Acupuncture Massage & Muscle Testing.
1981
BRISBANE COLLEGE OF TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE, KELVIN GROVE, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND
Full-time studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including Chinese medical theory, Chinese herbs, Anatomy, Physiology and Acupuncture for one year. Successful completion.
EMPLOYMENT/ACTIVITY HISTORY (self-employed, personal research, paid and voluntary):
2006-2004
MURRAY THOMPSON (Voluntary Employment and Personal Research)
Internet Marketing Research: website creation and optimization (eg http://poisonedpeople.com and http://firsthomefunding.com.au); search engine submission and ranking; Google Adsense installation; Adobe PDF file creation; search engine creation; DHTML menu creation; website translation English to: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Russian (Systran).
2004
MURRAY THOMPSON (Voluntary – Access Database and Map Production)
Creation of Access database for, and 2D Map of, “Food For Thought” Horticulture Site, University of Western Sydney, on behalf of Hawkesbury Skills Inc. 23 Bosworth St., Richmond NSW 2753. The map was generated through on-site cartographic measurements, drawn onto graph paper, and then reworked considerably using computer graphics programs.
MURRAY THOMPSON (Self Employed and Non-profit)
Website design / promotion and search engine rankings and advertising for Internet marketing.
Environmental / philosophical article author: http://poisonedpeople.com/ironwill/index.html.
Environmental / Toxicological Activism: http://poisonedpeople.com and http://poisonedpeople.com/globalhealth/index.html.
Proof reading books, brochures and articles; document conversion (html to pdf, and Word document to pdf, etc).
2004-1973
MURRAY THOMPSON (Self Employed – Professional Artist)
http://australianart.tripod.com/
http://fantasyart.esmartbiz.com
Group Exhibitions:
With professional artist Neil Savage & others, Eildon, 1978 and AMP Building, Melbourne Victoria 1977, 1979.
With professional artist Shannus O’Sullivan, The Saints Gallery, Carlton Sydney, 13-23 May 1986.
Numerous exhibitions with professional artist Sharon Davson & others, First Impression Gallery, Ultimo Sydney, throughout 1987.
Arden Galleries, Woollahra Sydney.
Solo Exhibitions:
The Saints Gallery, Carlton Sydney, 7-21 May 1987
The Artists Gallery, Mortdale Sydney, 1987
Gallery Placements:
Arden Galleries, 26 Queen Street Woollahra NSW 2025
Von Dorff Art Gallery, 280 Rocky Point Road, Ramsgate Sydney NSW 2217
Kevin Jones Galleries, 83 Princes Hwy., St. Peters Sydney NSW 2044
First Impression Gallery, 42 Wattle St. Ultimo Sydney NSW 2000
Artists Gallery, 42 Pitt St. Mortdale Sydney NSW 2223
Geo. Styles Gallery, Cnr. Hunter & Bligh Streets, Sydney NSW 2000
The Rainsford Gallery, 328 Sydney Road, Balgowlah Sydney NSW 2093
Prouds Art Gallery, Cnr. King & Pitt Streets, Sydney NSW 2000
Boronia Art Gallery, 768 Military Road, Mosman Sydney NSW 2088
Forest Gallery, 61A The Centre, Darley Street, Forestville Sydney NSW 2087
The Saints Gallery, 10 Jubilee Avenue, Carlton Sydney NSW 2218
Vivian Art Gallery, Hurstville Plaza, 309 Forest Road, Hurstville Sydney NSW 2220
Old Northern Gallery, 937 Old Northern Road, Dural Sydney NSW 2158
Pottery Cottage, 389 Hume Highway, Bankstown NSW 2200
Art Awards:
1990: “Mural Magic Competition”, Traditional Section – 2nd Place (presented by then Mayor Ald. Faye Lo Po A.M. and sponsored by Lend Lease Retail and Penrith City Council).
1978: Geelong Society of Art, Oils Section – Honorable Mention (presented by Charles McCubbin).
1972: Wirreanda Festival, Marysville Victoria, 2nd Place Award for Landscape.
Duties
* Supply paintings to Neil Savage, professional artist.
* Art show entries.
* Gallery placements and private sales.
* Art teaching (public and private art classes).
2001-1999
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY
Document Design, Graphic Design, Proof-reading, Internet Research & Web Page Design, University Demonstrator / Tutor / Assignment Assessment
Duties
2001
Formatting, word-processing, proofreading, logo creation, cover design and computer graphics for the publication: HEALTHY TOURISM INITIATIVE – Towards a Charter for Healthy Tourism (Bushell & Powis 2001), on behalf of the WHO Collaborating Centre, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury.
2000
Internet research and web page design for the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury.
Internet research, graphic design and proof-reading for publication: The Safe Use of Farm Chemicals by Market Gardeners of Non-English Speaking Background – Developing an effective extension strategy for the Sydney Basin, A report for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 2000, by Dr Frances Parker, Senior Lecturer at UWS Hawkesbury.
Demonstrator / tutor for classes up to 40 students, at UWS Nepean for the Degree of Bachelor of Industrial Design, School of Civic Engineering & Environment; Semester 1 Subject – Design Issues 1B: Ecology for Designers; Semester 2 Subject – Environmental Planning 1: Material Ecologies.
1999
Graphic design and construction (environmental graphics and graphs on transparencies) for Professor Valerie Brown, Foundation Chair in Environmental Health, UWS Hawkesbury.
Poster graphic design, construction and lamination for Dr. Brent Powis, Director WHO Collaborating Centre, UWS Hawkesbury.
1999 -- 1998
R.A.G.E. (Residents’ Action Group for the Environment)
Graphic Design, Article Research and Writer
Duties
Graphic and map design and construction, articles and environmental submissions for the RAGE (Residents’ Action Group for the Environment) Hawkesbury-Nepean Newsletter using Microsoft Word. Major articles and submissions:
* RAGE, Feb. 1998, Issue 38: ADI Report Shows Leakage Outside Toxic Depot (ADI Reference: ADI Limited 1997, Half Yearly Report to June 1997: Groundwater Monitoring Program – Castlereagh Waste Management Centre Volumes 1 & 2, ADI Limited – Environmental Consulting, Silverwater NSW Australia).
* Submission (13-01-’98) to the Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning on Development Application for Lot 1 – DP740367, The John Moroney Correctional Centre, South Windsor.
* Submission (16-01-’98) to the Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning on the Development of the ADI Site at St. Marys.
* Submission (24-02-’98) to the Healthy Rivers Commission on The Draft Report of the Healthy Rivers Commission.
1999 – 1986
FIRST IMPRESSION GALLERY & SHARON DAVSON FINE ART STUDIOS
Artist
Duties
* Under instruction, production of a wide variety of art image products, including landscapes and still life, and acid-etch glass etchings by commission (e.g. glass doors between the Bistro and Restaurant at the Richmond R.S.L., north-western Sydney).
1990
AKEN AND ROGERS – SILVERWATER, NSW
Duties
* Site plan production (Strata plan 6550 for 30 Grove Street Lilyfield in 1990)
* Building repairs.
* Brickies laborer.
* Roofing.
* Painting.
* Drainage.
* Guttering & downpipes.
* Windows.
* Construction.
* Ventilation.
1989
BORAL QUARRIES – SOUTH WENTWORTHVILLE, NSW
Duties
* 3-dimensional site plan production (P2 crusher and screening building)
* Operator: jaw crusher.
* Operator: silo release / truck fill.
* Loading and wiring explosives.
* Lubrication of machinery / conveyor equipment.
* Assisting control tower operations.
1988
JOHN PURCHASE PUBLIC SCHOOL – CHERRYBROOK, NSW (Dept. of Education)
Duties
* Construction of shelving and school equipment; general repairs.
* Mowing lawns, mower maintenance, gardening & weed control.
* Construction of sports equipment.
* Art lectures / art lessons for Grades 3-5.
* Painting of Australia Day mural on library windows.
* School sports graphics and line marking.
* School photography and video recording of school events; signage graphics, construction and wall placement.
1987 -- 1986
ROBERTSON DECOR P/L -- NTH RICHMOND, NSW
Duties
* Painting units, houses and shops (e.g. the former Brashs, Pitt St City).
1984
ART FOR EVERYONE / PAINTING FOR FUN PTY. LTD.
Art Teacher
Duties
* Art teacher for classes up to 20 adults and teens.
1981 – 1980
J. & L. SAVIDGE, LANDSCAPE GARDENING – BURLEIGH PARK, QUEENSLAND
Duties
* Retaining walls.
* Concreting.
* Planting trees and border construction.
* Laying turf.
* Gardening.
1972
ARTIST
Duties
* Private commission by Eildon Chamber of Commerce: Conversion of Eildon Sport Centre architectural plan to 3D painting (at age 17).
OTHER TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Very proficient at using / producing:
* Word 95, 97, 2000 & XP (2002).
* Paint Shop Pro 7.04 and 9.
* Microsoft Image Composer 1.5.
* Many kinds of computer graphics, from pure graphic design through to educational, informational and instructional graphics.
* NTI BackupNow! Deluxe 3, and backing up and restoring data.
* PowerQuest DriveImage 2002 (version 6), NTI DriveBackup 3, Norton Ghost 9, NovaBackup, and backing up and restoring entire images of Operating Systems (burning to CD-R/W).
* All Windows Operating Systems (95 through to XP) inc. registry, system & disk maintenance, and disaster recovery.
Competent at:
* Ulead PhotoImpact 8.
* Copying/cloning CDs.
* File splitting / merging.
* Scanning & processing / enhancing imagery, inc. photographs.
* Photocopying and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using scanner.
Self-published author:
* ISBN 0-646-23801-9 Global Toxicity: Chemicals – A Worldwide Nightmare (Highlighting the Castlereagh Waste Management Centre and its Impact on Londonderry, Sydney) © 1998.
* ISBN 0-646-24554-6 Science As Religion: The Great Inductivist Error © 1995.
General:
* Large-scale artist: internal building walls and theatre backdrops from 4 X 3m to 8 X 5m.
* Photography: landscapes for backdrops, paintings, macro-photography, & general photography.
* Handyman: woodwork, brickwork, arc welding.
LEADERSHIP & COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
As a demonstrator and tutor at UWS Nepean: I was able to provide encouragement and tuition in terms of assignment structure and focus, and the understanding of computer software. Through the marking of hundreds of student assignments, I provided excellent feedback via (often) extensive notes that pointed students toward both recognizing and improving on deficiencies, and capitalizing on strengths.
As an art teacher under a variety of formats (self-employed private classes at home, public classes, employed work teaching at golf clubs and RSLs, and teaching children, both in the classroom and at church camps): I was able to gently assist adults and kids to effectively learn new skills in oil painting and enjoy their new perceptions and achievements in the process. My classes offered a friendly, compassionate and stimulating environment for the development of latent artistic skills.
As a volunteer art teacher for school-aged children (teens and primary) at church camps (1981/82) and Cherrybrook Primary School (1988): I was able to offer enlightening insights into what one is seeing in the landscape (plein air or via photographs), and how to create a satisfying image of the chosen view. Students demonstrated enthusiasm and even excitement when they were shown that light, form and distance offered more to think about than they had ever conceived.
As a mature-age group leader for a variety of University Environmental Health group assignments: I was capable of generating an harmonious and invigorating work environment based on mutual trust, support and co-operation. This was favorable to the acquisition of useful results through the application of appropriate focus and energy, and the acceptance of feedback leading to democratic problem-solving on the run. Thus, high levels of personal achievement were attained by all the participants. I successfully delegated tasks and provided much of the document design, formatting and word-processing for the final assignment hardcopy in which most of the students were able to physically contribute. Assignment assessments reflected the sophistication of my overall leadership and organizational capacities, both in the field and in front of the computer.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:
In particular, my University studies into the politics of Environmental Health and Public Health issues, as well as studies incorporated into my PhD thesis in Sociology, have fitted me with a profound concern for the ethical and equitable administration of corporate responsibilities, as well as the imperative for improved understanding in terms of societal general knowledge of the hazards of toxic chemicals. I have an abiding eagerness for participating in education reforms that address these areas of deficit, in the hope that the dangers of rampant chemical (industrial/ farm/ home/ pharmacological) development and general ignorance and carelessness can be minimized.
As well, I am very concerned for today’s youth and the imperative of their essential appreciation of global environmental and humanitarian responsibilities. This view encompasses an awareness of the mortality and finite nature of the Earth, and the imperative for developing more tolerant perspectives. This ethic, the more roundly embraced, will increase opportunities for personal development and the realization of individual and corporate potential leading to a more informed and benevolent society (in theory). We need our youth to incorporate broad eco-centric and tolerant intellectual perspectives into their understanding of the concepts of “progress” and global community, and innovate fresh opportunities for culturally and technologically advancing our lives in favour of true sustainability. Equal Opportunity, the Model Code of Conduct, the Occupational, Health and Safety Act 2000 and Regulation (incorporating Best Practice and Risk Management) and the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act)[1] and associated Regulations and Amendments valiantly attempt to offer ways and means of securing this kind of advancement, and are therefore valuable intellectual developments in terms of our complex technological lifestyle.
My foundational, youthful and artistic creativity has been significantly enhanced over the years as I have matured by a practical concern for the environment and the essential ethic of human rights. Further, I have begun to embrace a more developed and sophisticated ethical and philosophical heuristic[2] process of self-learning that demands of me an holistic comprehension of world affairs: the problems and the great human potential that lie well beyond the impositions of nationalist and even humanist themes.
ANTI-DISCIMINATION, ETHICS & OH&S:
As a/an:
· employee;
· Nurses’ Aid (work experience/residence) at St. John of God Hospital;
· demonstrator and tutor at UWS Nepean;
· art teacher;
· volunteer art teacher;
· University mature-age student group leader;
· student at UWS Hawkesbury
I follow the:
· Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Commonwealth) and the principles of EO in the form of their related older themes and most recent configurations, in terms of requirement by law where applicable, and in personal choice by association in all situations through my personal ethical base of reference;
· Requirements and spirit of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and amendments, especially those terms relating directly to all forms of anti-discrimination;
· Occupational Health & Safety Act 2000 and Regulation 2001 in terms of suitable attention to the imperatives of hazard reduction and risk management;
· Ethnic Affairs Priorities Statement (EAPS) and EAPS Standards Framework in terms of my personal attitude affirming that all ethnic communities should be integrated in favour of respecting and accomodating Cultural Diversity, with these sentiments also avowing the four principles of Multiculturalism (http://www.crc.nsw.gov.au/eaps/applicants.htm) and substantiating the Community Relations Commission and Principles of Multiculturalism Act 2000.
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Conscientious, efficient, ethical, detail-minded, tolerant, creative, innovative, hard working.
Copies of employment and rental references are available if required.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES:
Art, tennis, bushwalking, martial arts, history, archaeology, geology/earth-history, astronomy, alternative health modalities/concepts (acupuncture, detoxification, magnetic therapy), science fiction
novels and short stories, computers (inc. Windows operating systems’ troubleshooting, web design, general graphic art), environmental issues, philosophy and psychology.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Australian Institute of Environmental Health (NSW Division).
Australian Society of Marine Artists.
REFEREES:
Mr. Bruce Simmons, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Sydney, Campus: Hawkesbury, School/Division: School of Environment and Agriculture, Telephone: (02) 4570 1847, Building: L4, Facsimile: (02) 4570 1383, Room: 6, EMAIL: b.simmons@uws.edu.au.
Dr. Frances Parker, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Sydney, Campus: Penrith (Werrington North), School/Division: School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, Telephone: (02) 9678 7302, Building: Coallee, Facsimile: (02) 4570 1531, Room: AEG31, EMAIL: f.parker@uws.edu.au.
Dr. Robert Woog, BscAg, MagSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Systemic Development, Course Coordinator of Master of Arts (Complexity, Chaos and Creativity), Coordinator of MAppSC (Social Ecology), Organisational Development Major, University of Western Sydney, Campus: Hawkesbury, School/Division: School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning, Telephone: (02) 4570 1902, Building: K9, Facsimile: (02) 4570 1255, Room: 5, EMAIL: r.woog@uws.edu.au.
Dr. Frank Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Campus: Penrith (Werrington North), Telephone: (02) 9678 7305, Building: Coallee, Facsimile : (02) 9678 7120, Room: AE108, EMAIL: f.hutchinson@uws.edu.au.
Ms. Sharon Davson, Founder & Chairman of 48 Hours To World Peace Inc. (www.48hrs.com.au), (02) 49656600, EMAIL: peace@48hrs.com.au.
[1] Consolidating: Clean Waters Act, 1970; Clean Air Act, 1961; Environmental Offences and Penalties Act, 1989; Noise Control Act, 1975; Pollution Control Act, 1970; and incorporating most of the regulatory provisions of the Waste Minimisation and Management Act, 1995.
[2] The discovery of the nature and meaning of experience through an internal search process (Moustakas, C. 1990, Heuristic Research: Design, Methodology, and Applications, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2111 West Hillcrest Drive, Newbury Park, CA 91320, USA).