Roberto Dillon

• Provide leadership to full-time staff members and manage staff members responsible for subordinate leadership duties e.g. coordinators, committee work • Review annual trimester offerings to ensure equivalence with Australian campuses and that accreditation standards are met through sufficient subject offerings • Provide pastoral care to students requiring academic support and negotiate enrollment amendments or suspensions as appropriate • Encourage a staff research culture • Manage efficient processes for finalization of results, processing of student academic records and developing student study plans • Develop and evaluate entry articulations and progression arrangements • Assess University-entry applications according to recognition of prior learning and entry requirements of relevant courses • Address student orientations and other promotional events on behalf of JCU Singapore. • Ensure subjects are conducted appropriately including the employment and managing of sessional staff.

• Lecturing different game design, cybersecurity and project management classes for the Bachelor and Master Degrees in IT (Interactive Technologies and Game Design) as well as 'Business Plan' and 'Multidisciplinary Project' for the Business degree. Teaching both traditional and online classes. Supervising Internships for both IT and Business degrees. • Supporting Marketing department in business development activities, both locally and internationally. • Curriculum Development for a new Bachelor Degree in Cybersecurity. • Founder and Curator, "JCU Museum of Video and Computer Games"​, the first museum completely dedicated to the history of video gaming in South East Asia. • Organizer and Event Director for “Retro Inspired”, a yearly game development festival including a game jam for students and public lectures featuring computer pioneers and iconic developers like Michael Tomczyk and Jeff Minter. • Consulting for the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Government of Brunei Darussalam for establishing a local gaming and multimedia industry in the country (2012). • Research on models for game analysis and design, VR applications and serious games for healthcare, business and history of gaming, digital humanities etc. • Student supervision (including PhD candidates) and Curriculum revision/refresh at both undergraduate and graduate levels. • Section Editor for the International Journal of Serious Games (http://journal.seriousgamessociety.org) • Editorial Advisor for CRC Press

Software and Game Development Consultancy services. - Developed and released FOSS tools for Blue Team Cybersecurity operations. - Developed and self-published mobile games on Google Play and Apple App Store that reached top positions across several categories (eg. Arcade, Family, Puzzle, Strategy, Kids etc.) in both emerging and major markets. - Managing teams per project requirements and production cycles accordingly.

• Conducted a series of lectures for the Master’s Degree in Strategic Engineering (Strategos) on Cybersecurity and Gamification • Chaired Defense Committee for the Ph.D. in Strategic Engineering, University of Genoa, XXXVII Cycle • Invited to conduct in-person seminars in other institutions, including: Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Obuda University (Hungary), as well as online seminars for the University of the People (USA) and Accademia Italiana dei Videogiochi (Italy). • Discussed research collaborations on topics of common interest

- Lead the creative team for a F2P game, Horse Master, and its mobile (iOS) spin off. - Liased with upper management to keep the game vision consistent and then work with designers, artists and programmers across the team to implement it. - Defined and documented all game systems, balance and game economy. - Produced wireframe diagrams and game design documentation as required. - Mentored junior developers

Manage and mentor the game design team, interview prospective lecturers as well as students.

Teaching different subjects, including Computer Environment, Project Introduction, Project I, Game Mechanics I, II and III, 2D Level Design, Technology for Game Designers, Game History and more. Research on experimental game mechanics and formal models for game analysis and design.

Lecturing different subjects such as "Audio Creation" (i.e. Sound Design and Programming for games), "Game Production and Project Management", C++ and others. Involved in development and production of game related projects. Principal Investigator / Producer for the M-EDGE project (the Music and Emotion Deriven Game Engine) funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation and the games based on it.

R&D and project management of serious and educational games

* Defined the catalogue and planned each release (about 12 music and multimedia titles) * Managed all business development issues, taking Callisto’s multimedia CD productions to be officially distributed in countries such as Germany, Russia, Japan, USA etc. * Managed every stage of the production chain for all its products. * Managed budgets and assembled the best possible team for each project (including artists and technicians) while fulfilling everyone’s expectations and meeting the required deadlines. Collaborated with artists such as flutists Robert Dick, Lorenzo Cavasanti and Vieri Bottazzini, singers Angelo Manzotti, Amanda Pabyan and Ingela Bohlin, pianist Andrea Bacchetti, violinists Huang Bin, Giulio Plotino and Tanja Becker-Bender, guitarist David Rogers, conductors Tito Ceccherini and Michele Trenti among others.

Studying computer models for the analysis of emotions in music and interactive digital media. Worked at KTH in Stockholm for six months as a Guest Researcher within the European funded project MEGA

Design and develop software tools and applications (C++ plus web components) for jobs commissioned by contractors such as Italian Mails.

Best practices, models, and strategies for curriculum and assessment design, providing effective feedback, etc.

Postgraduate level certificate including the following subjects: CYBER501x; Cybersecurity Fundamentals CYBER502x: Computer Forensics CYBER503x: Cybersecurity Risk Management CYBER504x: Network Security CYBER525x: Capstone Project

Ph.D. Thesis: "On the recognition of expressive intentions in music playing: a computational approach with experiments and applications"

Master Thesis: "A Hybrid System for Music Composition and Performance"