Dr John Zic

Executive Manager, Scientific Computing Services, Information Management & Technology

https://people.csiro.au/Z/J/John-Zic

Biography

Current appointments:
- Executive Manager, Scientific Computing Services, Information Management and Technology, CSIRO

Previous activity:
- Principal research scientist at CSIRO
- Standards Australia Chair of Committee IT-038 "Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms"
- Member, Standards Australia JTC1 Steering Advisory Committee
- Visiting research fellow position, Macquarie University.
- NSW Government Information Security Working Group (March - July 2012)
- Expert evaluator for the EU Framework 7 Call 8 Object 10.4 "Trustworthy ICT", February 2012.
- Contributing member of the 11th Joint EU and Australian Science and Technology Cooperation Committee, 2010.
- Contributing member, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Working Group on Cloud Computing from 2009-2010
- Research Director for the Networking Technologies Laboratory 2005-2007 and the Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy project (CeNTIE 2).

Invited presentations and keynotes:
- MIT Kerberos and Internet Trust Conference "Social Machines Building Logistics Networks: Understanding the Supply Chains of Identity, Trust and Data", MIT Media Lab (2014)
- Astroinformatics Conference Sydney (2013)
- EU FP7 Program "Building International Co-operation" in Brussels (2011);
- INCO-TRUST workshop in New York (2010);
- Kerberos Consortium Conferences at MIT (2010 and 2011);
- Vanguard/TTI CyberINsecurity Conference in 2010

Professional Areas

Fields of Research

Current

Current Roles

Project Lead (Computing)
Processing public pulsar data in the cloud
Project Lead (Australia)
EU Framework 7 Project - AU2EU ("Authentication and Authorisation for Entrusted Unions")
Project Leader
CSIRO Virtual Collaborative Laboratory Platform and Services

Academic Qualifications

1992

PhD, University of Sydney
1978

BE
University of Sydney

Professional Experiences

2009-2016

Principal Research Scientist; Research Team and Group Leader
CSIRO
2007-2009

Principal Research Scientist; Laboratory Director
Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre
2004-2007

Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO ICT Centre
2003-2004

Project Lead
Smart Internet Technology Collaborative Research Centre
1999-2003

Principal Research Engineer
Motorola Australia Research Centre
1992-1998

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer
UNSW
1984-1991

Tutor
Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney
1980-1984

Professional Officer
Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney
1979-1980

Engineer
Hearing Aid Development Section, National Acoustics Laboratories, Commonwealth Department of Health
1978-1979

Professional Officer
Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, ANU