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Kevin Johnson
Taxon Officer
and Communications & Development
Officer
Kevin has experience working in the zoo community since the early 1980s, in a variety of roles. In 1981, he
began working as a keeper in the veterinary department at Melbourne Zoo.
Four years later he moved to the Native Mammal department at the zoo, and
then in 1989, took on the role of computerizing the zoo’s paper animal
records system.
During the four years that
Kevin was the animal records officer at Melbourne Zoo, he developed some
additional reports for the ARKS software , developed by
ISIS, and also
helped with the development of the computerized animal collection planning
software, REGASP.
Kevin worked at the Australasian Zoo and Aquarium Association (ARAZPA)
office in Sydney, Australia since 1993, and is now on full-time secondment to the Amphibian Ark. Kevin’s role in ARAZPA included providing
training and user support for the animal records programs distributed by the
International Species Information System (ISIS) to users throughout the
region. He was previously Chair of the International Animal Data Information Systems
Committee and was also Chair of ARAZPA’s Animal Records Keeping Specialist Group
for a number of years. Kevin was heavily involved in the development of
the next generation of ISIS software, ZIMS (the Zoological Information
Management System) during the first five years of this project.
Kevin works
full-time for the Amphibian Ark, on secondment from ARAZPA.
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