Owen Phillips BA (Joint Hons), PGCE(FE), MBA, TMB, CITP-MBCS

MIoEE - Enterprise, Skills and Development Officer
BA (Joint Hons), PGCE(FE), MBA, TMB, CITP-MBCS

Contact

Email: owp@aber.ac.uk
Office: School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Aberystwyth University,P5 Penglais Campus , Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. SY23 3UX.
Phone: (01970) 62 2927

Research

Management Information Systems in a Further Education Environment (MBA Thesis)

Biography

In Owen’s current role, he is responsible for working with colleagues to identify and develop Continuous Professional Development, work based learning and consultancy opportunities. The role entails identifying new opportunities for generating income from external sources, strategically planning and co-ordinating a CPD programme of courses across the School and with partner organisations

Prior to taking up his employment at SELL, Owen has held a number of educational roles both in Further and Higher Education.

As Elearning Advisor - Libraries and Information Systems for RSC Wales, based at Swansea University, Owen’s role involved stimulating the use of technology facilitated learning in a variety of educational contexts, including Work based learning, Adult and Community Education and job seekers. The role focused directly on supporting staff and learners and expanding educational engagement with technology.

Owen specialised on the business potential of Web 2.0 applications, enabling more effective promotion and marketing by using tools including social networking, geographic information systems and text based services (SMS) to improve and promote efficiency in terms of resource utilisation and enhanced educational results. Owen also created the first draft of the RSC’s Welsh language strategy, and had direct input into the bidding process for JISC funding calls, reviewing and supporting organisations’ bids and providing constructive feedback.

Within the Further Education Environment, Owen undertook a variety of roles at Swansea College:

eLearning Development Manager. Information Learning technology Services

Management of Swansea Partnership Learn Direct and college eLearning activity.

Distributed management of a team of 52 staff for Swansea Partnership Learn Direct and college eLearning activity. Development of a cost recovery portfolio and integration of Elearning into Faculty, Curriculum and Functional areas;

IT Business Curriculum Manager. The Business College, Swansea

Management of learning and development (teams and processes) at the Cygnus ICT Business Centre.

The role included leadership and internal verification of the NVQ ICT and business programmes, and Ecommerce Consultancy, along with sales and Industrial liaison. ILT Champion. KEF Innovation Strategy Manager (Strand 2);

ICT Specialist. Cygnus Online

Development and training on new generation ICT qualifications including ICL, Cisco, Microsoft and CompTIA academies and videoconferencing. Developing, coaching and leading the ICT delivery team. External liaison. Responsibilities included ILT strategy and policy formulation and implementation.

IT Staff Trainer. Principal's Office

Delivery of IT, ICT and ILT training exclusively to staff members, ranging from individuals to faculty sized groups, improving operational performance of 490 staff.

IT Trainer, GNVQ Co-ordinator. Faculty of Management & Professional Studies

Teaching and training on ICT courses in different curriculum areas to diverse audiences including NEETS, adults and businesses, with age ranges from 14-83.

Prior to working at Swansea College, Owen undertook a number of jobs, including Jobplan/Workwise leader, student adviser/counsellor; entertainment manager, market researcher and researcher for K-Gold Radio Station, Missouri, USA.

Staff Links

Skype: owenowp

Twitter: owenowp

Additional Interests

Project Management

Owen has been involved in a number of specialised education projects at all levels, from concept development, bid submission, programme delivery and project management. Projects successfully run included:

JISC - Joint Information Services Committee:

ReCITE project. (Reusable Content for IT Education). Repurposing learning delivery materials into different curriculum areas

WALES Project (Work based access to Learning through E-services). Delivery and learner support via Moodle and Mobile devices

WETN - Wales Etraining Network:

Ecommerce Foundation Degree (collaboration between 12 HEIs and FEIs

KEF - Knowledge Exploitation Fund:

Foundation Degree System Security and Ecommerce module SY104 developer;

Strand 2 SME Support: Mobile Computing; MTO Manufacturing.

Staff Development Programme; Creation of CPD and Microsoft Academy

Home Office/UFI - University for Industry:

Bid submission, management and development of the Life in the UK Test centre. 3,400 citizenship tests administered

Employability Shell programme – supporting Jobseekers and Jobcentre + programmes with elearning.

WNL - Wales Network Learning/Swansea University:

Elearning Co-ordinator.

Opportunity Wales (WAG)/ECIC - Ecommerce Innovation Centre:

Ecommerce Advisor – intervention based Ecommerce implementation and support for SMEs; 32 companies assisted

ATEB/TMB - Technology means Business

ICT Business Consultant

WULF - Wales Union Learning Fund:

USDAW - Colourcare , Neath;

CWU - British Telecom (Swansea, Cardiff), Royal Mail (Swansea);

provision of ICT Learning centre and supported curriculum at organisation premises

ESF - European Social Fund:

ICT Support programme;

SWISH – South Wales Information Society Hub

ERDF - European Regional Development Fund:

Telecoms (WEPE) Project

WIS/WDA - Wales Information Society/Welsh Development Agency

Window on Wales programme

WDA/DTI/BT - Department of Trade and Industry/British Telecom

Mobile network demonstration pilot.

Eskills NTO

E Passport Pilot

IT Wales/Swansea University

Chair IT Wales Advanced Technical Special Interest Group

Young Enterprise Scheme

Business Adviser