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Jafar Hamra
Adjunct Faculty
LinkedIn ProfileEducation
- Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Project Management/Complex Systems), University of Sydney, Australia (2013)
- Master of Project Management (Honours), University of Sydney, Australia (2009)
- Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering, University of Jordan, Jordan (2007)
- Diploma of Training Design & Development, HS Business School, Australia (2018)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Innovation, Decision-Making & Leadership
- E-Commerce & Technology
SUBJECTS TAUGHT / STUDENT PROJECT MENTOR
- Data Science Capstone Project I - BDS PRO 301
- Data Science Capstone Project II - BDS PRO 302
EXPERIENCE
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
The University of Sydney, Australia (1/3/2019 - Present)
Sessional Associate Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering workshops and tutorials in the postgraduate and undergraduate degrees at The University of Sydney
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
Successfully assisting the unit coordinator in delivering:
- PMGT6867 Quantitative Methods: Project Management
- PMGT2854: Executing Projects
- PMGT3855: Project Variance Analysis
- ENGG5812 Project Delivery Approaches
- PMGT1711 Systems Thinking in Projects
- PMGT5891 Project Risk Management
- PMGT5887: Computer Applications in PM
- PMGT2711 Critical Thinking for Projects
Swinburne University, Australia (1/1/2020 - Present)
Sessional Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the postgraduate degrees at Swinburne
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
Successfully lectured several courses:
- IS/IT Risk Management INF80043
- Strategic Project Management INF70005
Southern Cross University, Australia (1/3/2020 - Present)
Sessional Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing, facilitating and delivering online lectures, tutorials and workshops in the postgraduate degree at Southern Cross University
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
- Successfully delivered several courses:
- MNG93255-2020-SP6: Portfolio and Program Management
- MNG92230-2020-SP2: Project Management: Quality, Control and Risk
- MNG92305-2020-SP3: Leading and Managing Projects
- MNG93220-2020-SP5: Project Procurement and Contract Management
- Covered PMBOK methodology
University of New South Wales, Australia (1/6/2021 - Present)
Sessional Tutor
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing, facilitating and delivering online lectures, tutorials and workshops in the postgraduate degree at the University of New South Wales
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
- Successfully delivered several courses:
- Design Project Management - Vision to Reality- BEIL0008
- Value Creation- COMM1180
- Covered PMBOK methodology
Asia Pacific International College, Australia (25/2/2018 - Present)
Sessional Unit Coordinator and Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the postgraduate and undergraduate degrees at APIC
- Designing, developing, implementing and reviewing teaching materials for project management courses
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
- Contributing to the APIC's applied research
Achievements:
- Supervised 28 postgraduate research students (Research Project SBM1300)
- Successfully lectured several project management and IT courses:
- IS Project Management BIS2003/SBM4305
- Project Delivery Systems SBM1204 (Face to Face and Online)
- Venture/Project Economics and Finance SBM1203
- Project and Program Information & Communication Systems SBM1103
- Project Management Fundamentals and Practices BUS2001/SBM3206
- Project Management Profession PRJ5001/ SBM1101
- Project Execution Planning and Management SBM3302
- IS Security and Risk Management SBM4304
- Project Integration and Change Management PRJ5105
- Covered PMBOK methodology
- Conduct Lab on the usage of Microsoft Project software for planning and controlling
- Deliver the subjects of project delivery systems which includes delivering lectures on concepts like contract types (like fixed type contract, cost reimbursable contract, unit and material contracts)
- Covering the delivery systems of design and construct, design documentation and construct, Alliances, Head contracting, ERP, IEF and BOOT
- Also prepared the quizzes and final exam papers for the subjects
Kent Institute, Australia (1/3/2019 - Present)
Sessional Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the undergraduate degree
Achievements:
- Successfully lecturing several courses:
- Project Quality and Management PAQM321
- Business Economics BECO107
- System Analysis and Design SYAD312
- IT For Business Orgranisations ITBO201
- The IT Professional TITP105
- Covered PMBOK methodology
- Conduct Lab on the usage of Microsoft Project software for planning and controlling
Australian Institute of Higher Education, Australia (24/10/2018 – Present)
Sessional Unit Coordinator and Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the undergraduate degree
- Designing, developing, implementing and reviewing teaching materials for project management courses
Achievements:
- Successfully lecturing several courses:
- Project Management BISY2004
- Information Security ISY2003
- Capstone Project 1 BISY3002
- Knowledge Management BISY3005
- Covered PMBOK methodology
- Conduct Lab on the usage of Microsoft Project software for planning and controlling
SP Jain School of Global Management, Australia (1/2/2021 - Present)
Adjunct Faculty
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the undergraduate degree
Achievements:
- Successfully lecturing several courses:
- Data Science Capstone Project I - BDS PRO 301
- Data Science Capstone Project II - BDS PRO 302
- Covered PMBOK methodology
- Conduct Lab on the usage of Microsoft Project software, Project Libre, Jira and Trello for planning and controlling
Central Queensland University (CQUniversity), Australia (1/3/2019 - Present)
Sessional Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops at CQUniversity
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
- Successfully lectured and tutored several courses:
- Project Management Concepts PPMP20007
- Initiating and Planning Projects PPMP20008
- Leading Lean Projects PPMP20009
- Executing and Closing Projects PPMP20010
- Program and Portfolio Management Information Systems PPMP20012
- Project Management for operators of large assets PPMP20013
- Project Management Practicum PPMP20018
- ICT Project Management COIT12208
- Covered PMBOK, Prince 2 and Agile project management methodologies
Victoria University, Australia (1/7/2018 - 1/7/2020)
Sessional Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the postgraduate and undergraduate degrees at Victoria
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
- Teaching Excellence Award from Victoria University for academic and teaching excellence in 2018-2019
- Successfully lectured several courses:
- Introduction to Project Management NIT1203
- Information Systems Professional BCO6672
- Project Management Principles EPM5600
- Information Technology Project Management BCO6656
- Project Risk Management EPM5740
- Covered PMBOK methodology
- Conduct Lab on the usage of Microsoft Project software for planning and controlling
ATMC (Federation University and University of Sunshine Coast), Australia (1/7/2018 - 1/4/2020)
Sessional Lecturer
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops in the postgraduate and undergraduate degrees at Federation University and University of Sunshine Coast
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
- Successfully lectured several courses:
- Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation MGT731
- Project Management Principles PRM701
- Project Management BUMGT 6973
- Successfully tutored one course:
- Leadership in IT Project Management ITECH7401
MIT, Australia (1/7/2018 - 30/10/2018)
Sessional Tutor
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing and delivering tutorials in the undergraduate degrees at MIT
- Consulting with students on learning support and pastoral care
Achievements:
- Successfully tutored one course:
- Networking and Security ITECH 1102
- Conduct Lab on the usage of Wireshark and Linux operating system
Corporate Experience
Hamragroup Companies, Jordan (1/5/2013 - 22/2/2018)
Project Manager of Alhamra Company for Chemical Industries
Key Responsibilities:
- Implemented planning strategies and audits/reviews for the installation and commissioning of dishwashing and soap manufacturing plants projects
- Ensured monitoring and reporting of Project Controls processes are successfully set-up and implemented
- Interfaced with project team, partners, clients, stakeholders, consultants, designers, vendors, subcontractors for management of the planning function in accordance with established procedures
Achievements:
- Successfully finished the project within the budget and time
- Helped the company to get financed for an amount of USD 1 million
- Helped the company to get a contract with the government and enter new markets in Africa, Europe and Iraq
Research Interests
- Project Management
- Personal Development
- Leadership
- Communication and Coordination
Conference Presentations
- Presented my papers in The Twelfth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference, June 5-7, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Presented my paper in The 2011 ACM SIGMIS CPR CONFERENCE, May 19-21, 2011, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Presented my paper in The IFIP 8.3 DSS, June 28-30, 2012, Greece
- Presented my work in the student showcase at the 2012 AFAC & Bushfire CRC annual conference and also in the RAF meeting
PUBLICATIONS
- 1. Abbasi, A., Hossain, L., Hamra, J. & Owen, C. (2010) Social Networks Perspective of Firefighters' Adaptive Behaviour and Coordination among Them. 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Green Computing and Communications & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, 819-824.
- 2. Abbasi, A., Hossain, L., Owen, C. & Hamra, J. (2013). Social Connectedness and Adaptive Team Coordination during Fire Events. Fire Safety Journal.
- 3. Bdeir, F., Hossain, L., Hamra, J. & Crawford, J. (2012) Coordination Challenges for Global Disease Outbreaks Security. In Future Security, pp. 89-92 [N. Aschenbruck, P. Martini, M. Meier and J. Tölle, editors]: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- 4. Hamra, J. & Hossain, L. (2011) Exploring Construction Coordination Performance Using Social Networks. The Twelfth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference, 71-78.
- 5. Hamra, J., Hossain, L. & Owen, C. (2012a) Social Network Analysis of Learning Teams During Emergency Events. In Fusing Decision Support Systems Into the Fabric of the Context, pp. 267-279 [F. B. Ana Respicio, editor]. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press.
- 6. Hamra, J., Hossain, L., Owen, C. & Abbasi, A. (2011a) The Influence Of Social Networks On Learning In Disasters. The Twelfth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference, 63-70.
- 7. Hamra, J., Hossain, L., Owen, C. & Abbasi, A. (2012b). Effects of Networks on Learning during Emergency Events. Disaster Prevention and Management, 21(5), 584 - 598.
- 8. Hamra, J., Uddin, S. & Hossain, L. (2011b) Exponential random graph modeling of communication networks to understand organizational crisis. 49th SIGMIS annual conference on Computer personnel research, 71-78.
- 9. Hamra, J., Wigand, R., Hossain, L. & Owen, C. (2012c). Network Effects on Learning during Emergency Events. Knowledge Management Research & Practice.
- 10. Hossain, L., Hamra, J., Wigand, R. T., & Carlsson, S. (2015). Exponential random graph modeling of emergency collaboration networks. Knowledge-Based Systems, 77, 68-79.
- 11. Uddin, S., Hamra, J. & Hossain, L. (2011) Exploring communication networks to understand organizational crisis using exponential random graph models. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory.
- 12. Uddin, S., Hamra, J. & Hossain, L. (2013). Mapping and Modelling of Physician Collaboration Network. Statistics in Medicine.
- 13. Uddin, S., Hossain, L., Hamra, J., & Alam, A. (2013). A study of physician collaborations through social network and exponential random graph. BMC health services research, 13(1), 234
Awards & Recognition
- Teaching Excellence Award from Victoria University for academic and teaching excellence in 2018-2019
- Best presentation award at 2012 student conference at The University of Sydney
- Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship/UPA (2010-2013)
- Top-Up Scholarship, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (2010-2013)
Memberships
- Project Management Institute Member
