Josephine Leong

Interactive design and game development professor emerita

Professor emerita of interactive design and game development 2023-present
Professor of interactive design and game development, September 2011-2023

Associate dean, school of film, March 2008-September 2011
Assist the dean with the day-to-day administration of nine departments, 10 majors; review curriculum development and proposals; review and help manage department and school budgets; serve as mentor to department chairs; oversee scheduling for the various departments; advise department chairs on college policy; review and help manage curriculum development; member of the administrative scheduling redesign project team; continue to teach programming classes for the interactive design and game development department; revised two eLearning courses for ITGM; assisted in SACS review documentation; member of the SCAD team to HK in January 2011 for the HKVACC accreditation visit; established partnership with Microsoft for UX development on Windows phone platform; organized faculty training and visiting lectures; from Fall 2010-Winter 2011, also served as acting chair for motion media design

Chair, Interactive Design and Game Development Department, August 2003-March 2008
Taught graduate studio classes and programming classes and supervised M.F.A. thesis projects; initiated and managed the annual Game Developer's Exchange (GDX) conference; managed department operations, faculty, resources, and academic curriculum; advisory board member for Klaus Entertainment Inc, an Atlanta-based company that develops platforms for Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Professor of computer art, January 2001-July 2003, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Led the development of the interactive design and game development curriculum for the new interactive design and game development department; assumed the role of chair of the department in August 2003; initiated proposals for the online delivery of courses through the certificate and M.A. in interactive design and game development for SCAD eLearning; developed online courses

Principal consultant, December 1998-December 2000, AV Showcase Pte Ltd, Singapore
Managed and developed multimedia projects including the Ministry of Information and the Arts Campaigns, History of the Public Works Department; video projects include Ministry of Education's Edtech '99 Conference, Edtech '99 Milestones of Achievement, and Library '99 videos, National Computer Board videos, and school recruitment videos.

Director/principal consultant, August 1998-2001, Knowledge Revolution, Singapore
Provided consultancy, development and training services in the area of information technology with an emphasis in multimedia and Internet technologies; provided training to teachers and students in Singapore schools on various multimedia technologies

Chief technology officer, May 1996-August 1998, Media21 Consultants Pte Ltd, Singapore
Chief architect behind the development of professional multimedia courses; Macromedia authorized trainer; producer and project manager for numerous multimedia projects, including the development of multimedia courseware for the Ministry of Education; other projects include educational CD-ROM software for children, multimedia projects for Motorola and FedEx, a CD-ROM reference project for the National Library Board and applications for SingaporeONE; Lectured on multimedia for professional courses and as an invited speaker for seminars by the Ministry of Education and the National Computer Board

Lecturer/manager, November 1988-April 1996, Japan-Singapore Institute of Software Technology
Taught diploma, advanced diploma and post-graduate courses; areas of expertise include programming, computer hardware, technical documentation, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and multimedia; manager of the NTT Joint Cooperation Laboratory under which development projects on smart card technology and multimedia were carried out; project leader for the curriculum design and development of the three-year diploma in Multimedia Software Engineering launched in 1996; other training experience includes the training of office workers on computer applications as well as training Singapore Armed Forces personnel on multimedia technology; other responsibilities during that time included leading the systems team to set up networked student computer labs

Teaching assistant, January 1988-November 1988, University of Essex, UK
Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses on computer programming, running lab sessions and tutorials

Software development assistant, February 1986-November 1986, Japan-Singapore Institute of Software Technology
Developed inventory systems and office automation projects; provided technical support on office applications

National Computer Board Award for graduating as Top Student in Diploma in Programming and Systems Analysis, Japan-Singapore Institute of Software Technology, Singapore, 1984-1986
Singapore Economic Development Board scholarship to pursue master's degree in the UK, 1986-1988

Exhibitions

Radiance VR, with Teri Yarbrow and Max Almy, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., January 2018-August 2018