I am a web designer & developer based in Galway, Ireland. Information on my work is available from my company site: Ambient Age Web Design.

I am also completing a PhD in Information Systems. My research is on the Adoption of IT Standards for technologies to support Ambient Intelligence.

About

I currently work as (among other things) a web developer & designer based in Galway, Ireland, where I set up and run Ambient Age.

Ambient Age is based in the GMIT’s Galway Innovation in Business Centre where I am part of the Midlands & West Enterprise Programme.

In the past, I have worked as a part-time Lecturer in Business Information Systems at University College Cork. During this time I delivered modules related to Web Design and Development for Business / Multimedia Applications.

During my time at UCC, I worked as a researcher in the area of Open Source Software. The CALIBRE (Coordination Action for Libre Software in Europe) research project was an EU FP6 funded project focusing on Open Source / Libre Software which ran between 2004 and 2006 and involved 12 Universities and a wide range of industrial partners from a variety of sectors. Further information on the goals, scope and outcomes of the project are available from the CALIBRE website.

Other Academic Stuff

I have acted as a reviewer for a number of leading International Conferences and Journals in the area of Information Systems, including:

  • Information Systems Journal (on a number of papers between 2005 and 2007);
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2006, 2007 (as a reviewer on two conference tracks), and 2008
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2007;
  • IFIP WG2.13 (Open Source Semantics), Third International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2007.
  • I acted as an Invited Discussant at the IFIP WG8.6 (Transfer and Diffusion of IT) Conference on the Transfer and
    Diffusion of Information Technology for Organizational Resiliance, 2006.

Background

I am currently in the process of completing a PhD in Commerce (Information Systems) at University College Cork for which I was awarded funding by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Studies. Further information on this on-going research and my Publications are available from the site’s Research Section.

I have previously completed a Masters Degree in Electronic Business and Commerce at UCC, a Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis (Business Systems Development) at NUI Galway, and a Bachelor of Business Studies (Marketing) Degree at the Galway Mayo Institue of Technology (GMIT).