• School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University

      B4 7ET Birmingham

      United Kingdom

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    Research Interests

    I joined Aston University as Executive Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science in September 2008.  Prior to this I had worked for IBM Corporation from 1987 to 2008.  Most recently I was an IBM Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Hursley.  I served as IBM’s Technical Advisor to Barclays Group.  Before that I was Chief Technology Officer for Messaging technology. My background is in complex systems software with particular focus on performance and the issues involved in delivering different aspects of Quality of Service.

    Research Interests

    • Instrumentation and analysis of complex systems software
    • Systems performance
    • Quality of Service for complex systems software (middleware)
    • Event Processing Systems

    Teaching Activity

    Middleware integration concepts

    Employment

    • 2008 – date: Professor and Executive Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.
    • 2007 – date: Visiting Professor, Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
    • 1987 - 2008: IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corporation.  Hawthorne (New York), Austin (Texas), Hursley (UK).
    • Technical Advisor, Barclays Group
    • CTO, Messaging Technology
    • 1983 – 1987.  Software Engineer, Boole and Babbage, Inc.  Austin (Texas).

    Qualifications

    • BA, Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1978
    • PhD, Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1983

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