Lindsay Ward
Senior Lecturer at James Cook University
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolLindsay Ward is a Senior Lecturer and experienced IT practitioner based in Townsville with over a decade of teaching and industry-facing experience in programming (Python), web development, CMS, and design thinking. He combines academic research in work-integrated and flexible learning with practical industry experience—having completed a hands-on internship at SafetyCulture where he built a Python/Flask API-backed dashboard deployed to AWS with Docker and an Angular front end. Comfortable leading projects and people, Lindsay has run marketing and first-year experience programs, coordinated major outreach events, and coached students in industry practices like GitHub pull-request code reviews. He also consults on web and software projects, contributes teaching-oriented practicals on GitHub for CP1404/CP5632, and pursues home automation and Home Assistant development as a hobby. Known for pragmatic efficiency, clear communication and a light touch of humor, he keeps learning and improving both his craft and his teaching.
11 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Kirwan State High SchoolBachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Information Technology at James Cook University
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Github Skills (15)
python10
object-oriented-programming9
string-format9
kivy9
string-formatting9
file-access7
fileio7
file-processing7
file-handling7
macos6
pycharm6
virtual-hosts6
vagrant6
virtualbox6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CP1404/Practicals
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Practicals for JCU CP1404/CP5632
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 246 commits, 13 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lindsay contributed to practical exercises for a CP1404/CP5632 course. Their work included initial code for temperature conversion, addition of TODO comments, and implementation of programs for file operations, string formatting, and password validation. They also worked on object-oriented programming with class exercises and Kivy GUI development.
practicals
lindsaymarkward/HelpLindsay
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Collection of scripts to help me with various tasks.
Contributions:94 commits, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 7 years
python
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