I am a self-motivated professional with over 20 years of experience gained within the Educational, Telecommunications, and IT Industries. For the past eight years I have been a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Information Technology and Engineering (CITE) as a member of the field of Computer Science; where I am the Programme Leader for both the BSc Honours in Computer Networks and Information Systems Security. Prior to my entering the academic profession; I was a Senior Project Manager for a number of communications solution provider where I gained extensive experience in Telecommunications, Commercial Infrastructure Networking and Internetworking environments. During that period I successfully delivered a number of Mid to large-scale multi-million pound infrastructure and communications projects.

• Programme Leadershipof the
  • BSc (Hons) Computer Networking and
  • BSc (Hons) Information Systems Security
• Design, develop and deliver advance Computer Networking and Information Security Systems modules to a variety of students across all levels from undergradute students to postgraduate research students.
• Module leader for (present)
• CN2042 Communications Security
• CN2043 Surveillance Security
• CN1048 Computer Based Technologies
• Modules (Previously taught)
• CN3054 Advanced Topics in Networks
• IM3045 Project Management
• Fundamentals of Computer Systems
• Datacommunications Networking
• Issues in Distributed Database Management Systems
• Management & organisation of the undergraduate Bsc (Hons) Computer networks and BSc (Hons) Information Security Systems programmes in CITE.
• Responsible for successfully supervising 150+ MSc & BSc Final year Dissertations / Projects.
• Represent the school on various internal and external committees: – School Board, Learning & Teaching Champion , New Training Initiative (NTI) project, and the Thames Gateway Project. Also Field, Award and disciplinary boards.

Phd Student :- TITLE: Development of a last-mile emergency services localised MANET to enhance the resilience of the UK governments national critical infrastructure policy for the rollout of the TETRA private mobile radio (PMR) infrastructure.

Research Area: I am involved with developing secure intelligent peer to peer dynamically generated networks with a continuously changing topology that is responsible for self-authentication and authorisation of nomadic nodes.

Interest: I am teaching advanced courses in Communication Security; Surveillance security principles and techniques utilized by law enforcement, government bodies and local councils/ authorities for systems and human surveillance purposes. I am primarily concerned with the multi-layered security methods used to monitor and combat malicious use of authorised communication practices for unauthorised purposes, in order to gain illegal access to legitimate resources.

•  BSc (Hons) Computer Networks
• BSc (Hons) Information Security Information
• BSc (Hons) Computing
• BSc (Hons) Software Engineering

• CN2042 Communications Security
• CN2043 Surveillance Security
• CN1048 Computer Based Technologies