Mr Paul Hawking is one of the leading commentators on ERP systems and specifically SAP solutions. His knowledge is well respected in both industry and academia and accordingly is often required to assist companies with their ERP strategies. He has been a committee member of the SAP Australian User Group for the past five years and is responsible for knowledge transfer.

Paul is also one Australia's best selling IT authors having written 9 texts which are sold throughout the world. His areas of teaching and research are ERP systems strategy and implementation, and Business Intelligence.

Current Position

SAP Academic Program Director website
Senior Lecturer
School of Information Systems
Faculty of Business and Law
Victoria University

Coordinator Victoria University's ERP Research Group website

Committee Member, SAP Australian User Group website

Program Chair SAP Australian User Group Summit 2007 website

SAP Certified Consultant, Integrated Business Processes

SAP Certified Consultant BIW

Canada Research Chairs College of Reviewers

Committee Member Faculty of Business and Law, Board of Studies

Email: Paul.Hawking@vu.edu.au

Mr. Brendan McCarthy
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
DipBusDataProcGordonInst
DipEdSCVH, MBusRMIT
MACS, PCP

Publications
McCarthy, B., Hawking, P. and Stein, A. (2005) "Integrating ERP's Second Wave into Higher Education Curriculum", Proceedings of the 9th PACIS Conference 2005, Kasetsart University, Thailand.

McCarthy, B. and Hawking, P. (2004) "Integrating eLearning Content into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Curriculum", Journal of Issues in Information Science and Information Technology, pp 23-30.

McCarthy, B., Hawking, P. and Stein, A. (2004) "Second Wave ERP Education", Information Systems Education, Vol 15, No 3, pp 327-332.

Hawking, P. and McCarthy, B. (2003) "Extending ERP Education into the Workplace: A new learning landscape", Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Business Conference, Shanghai, China.

Professional experience
15 years in both secondary and tertiary education.

Professional membership
Member, Australian Computer Society
Member, International Association of Information Systems

Research interests
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Programming Skills Development E-learning Technologies End User Documentation

Email : Brendan.McCarthy@vu.edu.au