11 SHI JIE MAGAZINE – AUTUMN 2017
Security The Force Guard Security team is part of the DC Facilities Department. They are essential to the running of the College, making DC a safe place to be at any time of the day. We have seven security guards working at DC. Some faces and names may be more familiar than others. With 24/7 coverage, night shift guards are usually not seen during the day.
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The many roles our guards fulfill include signing in senior students and carrying out hourly inspections around the school. They are the first point of contact for anyone who wants access to the school, whether it be making a delivery, meeting with a staff member, contractors coming to carry out works or just passer-bys wanting some shelter out of the rain on weekend walks. The guards are the school’s eyes and ears. They know everything that is going on, keeping the school running by finding items that need to be repaired during their regular inspections. Please say “Hello” to our guards when you see them as they really are an important part of the DC community.
HR and Finance Department The activities of the HR and Finance Department cover a wide range of duties from basic administrative functions, to assisting school management in making strategic decisions. We count on these colleagues to work diligently in their respective roles and communicate well with one another in order to make sure we operate effectively as a school. The HR and Finance team includes Clement Tam, Mandy Kwok, Lisa Sakai, Tammy Tam, and Joyce Kwok. You can spot them in the ground floor offices hard at work, whether they be handling financial information, organising payments and fees, or maintaining an up-to-date overview of staff and recruitment. ICT Department The Discovery College ICT team consists of four full time staff, George Tibbetts, Charles Chow, Stephen Lui and Clare Ciriaco. We also have an Apple technician, CY Wan, who works alongside the team. Aside from their regular tasks helping students and staff to keep their laptops in working order, they also manage the network and the nine servers in school. They develop in-house programmes and maintain existing systems. Did you know that the most common solution to problems that they are presented with is to turn the machine off and then turn it on again? Yes it really does work! In the course of repairs, they have found: from the weird (brown husked rice) to the disgusting (a dead cockroach – literally a bug in the system) inside machines.