Education
2010: NLP Trainer and Consultancy Certification, NLPU, Santa Cruz, California
2009: PhD, Leeds Metropolitan University, England
2009: NLP Master Practitioner Certification, Transformations, New Zealand
2006 : Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1
2005: NLP Practitioner Certification, Transformations, New Zealand
1998 : M.Sc. in Teaching English, Aston University, England
1992 : Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2
1991 : T.E.F.L. certification with honours, World TEFL Systems
1991 : M.A. (Engineering) Trinity College Dublin
1990 : B.A. (Engineering) with first class honours, Trinity College Dublin
Work Experience
2002-Present: Associate Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology.
1999: Full-time Lecturer, Nagoya Institute of Technology.
1998 – 1999: Part-time EFL instructor at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi Prefectural University, Nanzan University and Sugiyama University.
1994 – 98 : Full-Time Teacher, Doho Senior High School, Nagoya.
1993 – 94 : CECIL International language school, Nagoya. EFL for children.
1991 – 93 : Chuoh Consultants, Nagoya. Civil engineering design and computer programming.
Publications
Available here.
Presentations & Training Seminars
Available here.
Other Courses Taught
- NLP for Business Communication
- NLP Practitioner Training Course
- Teacher training seminars for high school and elementary school teachers
- EFL for adults
- ESP for engineers and management
- Irish Culture
- Academic reading and writing
- Technical English
- Sound and Education Media
- Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
Other information
- Advanced level of Japanese including Level 1 of Japanese Proficiency Test and extensive translation experience
- NLP Master Practioner, trainer, and consultant.
- High level of computer literacy including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, CALL, Basic, Pascal, C, C++, PERL, MySQL, PHP, and HTML.
- Active member of JALT since 1993
- Editor of My Share column of JALT’s publication The Language Teacher (2000 ~ 2002)
- Editor of Writers Point column for JALT Material Writers SIG Newsletter
- Current research interests: NLP, Sound Media, EFL, ESP, music and songwriting in the classroom