Biographic Details

Employment

Worked as tutor for the Educational Computer Workshop (circa 5 terms) and as assistant tutor with the Newpark Adult Education Centre (2 terms)
For a number of years, employed in various full-time and part-time capacities (trainer, programmer, technician) for a data communications company based in Ireland and the UK.
Appointed as MSc. Course Assistant at DAMTP in QUB in 1992 (EU funded).
Research Assistant, and subsequently Research Fellow, to the Iron Project. Funded over five years by PPARC and based in the Theoretical and Computational Physics Research Division at The Queens University of Belfast. Duties included Fortran code maintenance, optimization and parallelization for use on the UK national supercomputing facilities.
Taught Introduction to Computing and Motion in Gravitational Fields M.Sc. modules.
Appointed as Senior Systems Administrator to the new Gatsby Unit.

B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Physics (with Electronics) from Dublin City University
Awarded the first Fryar Medal for the Most Outstanding Final Year Project. This looked at improving sensor discrimination using multilayer perceptrons.
M.Sc. in Computational Science from The Queens University of Belfast
Ph.D. in Computational Atomic Physics from The Queens University of Belfast
LLM - Specialisation: International Intellectual Property Law but also included Medical Law and Ethics.
C&G 2377 : Level 3 Certificate of Competence for the Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment
C&G 2382-10 : Level 3 Certificate in the Requirements for Electrical Installations (BS 7671:2008)
ITIL v3 Foundation Examination
ISEB : Certificate in Information Security Management Principles