Devon is a experienced professional with over 20 years of knowledge gained within the Higher Education, Telecommunications, Internetworking & Communication Security industries. For the past ten years he has held the position of  Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering (ACE) as a member of the field of Computer Science; where he is the Programme Leader for both the BSc Honours in Computer Networks and Information Systems Security. Prior to entering the field of Higher Education; He was a Senior Project Manager for a number of network communications solution providers where he gained extensive experience in Telecommunications, Commercial Infrastructure Networking and Internetworking environments. During that period he successfully delivered a number of Mid to large-scale multi-million pound infrastructure and network communications projects. At present his area of research is concerned with developing a secured localised multi-hop routing platform to interface with the UK governments TETRA private mobile radio (PMR) network.

• Programme Leadership (present)
  •  BSc (Hons) Computer Networking and
  • BSc (Hons) Information Systems Security

• Programme Leadership (Past)
•  BSc(Hons) Software Engineering
•  BSc(Hons) Computing

• Design, develop and deliver advance Computer Networking and Information Security Systems programmes / modules to a variety of students across all levels from undergradute students to postgraduate research students.

• Module leader for (present)
• ACM130 Network Security (MSc)
• 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

• Developed & Validated the new MSc Computer Networks Programme (2012); a collaboration between the computing and electrical engineering fields within ACE.

• Management & organisation of the undergraduate Bsc (Hons) Computer networks and BSc (Hons) Information Security Systems programmes in ACE.
• Management & organisation of the undergraduate Bsc (Hons) Software Engineering and BSc (Hons) Computing in ACE (2002 - 09).

• 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: Development of  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: Teaching advanced courses in Networking & Communication Security, Surveillance security principles and techniques utilized by law enforcement, government bodies and local councils/ authorities for systems and human surveillance purposes.

Primarily concerned with the multi-layered security methods used to monitor and combat malicious use of authorised communication platforms for unauthorised purposes, in order to gain illegal access to legitimate resources.

• MSc Computer Networks (Validated May 2012)
• 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