As Head of Department within the School of Engineering & Design, I manage the delivery of 13 programmes across computing, creative design, fine art and performing art. The dept welcomes almost 800 students and comprises over 50 staff.

I co-founded Appsolo in 2010 to take years of teaching and test it in the 'real world'. Appsolo develop cutting edge line-of-business bespoke applications in Microsoft development platforms and supporting open-source solutions.

At IT Sligo, I held programme chair for Software in the Computing & Creative Practices department assisting with the development of current and emerging programmes of study. My teaching and research centres on software development (WPF, WCF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC), web development (JS, JQuery, CSS3, HTML5) and Human Computer Interaction with regular distractions into research/industry.

I take seriously the business of equipping our students with knowledge of the latest big movements in software development and design. At IT Sligo, we've enjoyed great success with our students and hopefully prepared the foundation for even greater achievements as these developers of tomorrow find their feet in the industry.

Specialties: academic planning/development; MS client- & server-side technologies; HCI/UX; e-learning technologies; rich client-side javascript frameworks