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Biography

I am a Business Information Systems Lecturer in the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology.

I have a passion for the Web and Entrepreneurship, and my more than 10 years experience in teaching and lecturing is heavily supported by an active industry involvement in the field of Web Design and Social Media Marketing.

Specialties: Social Media and Online Marketing, Web Design, Computer Programming, Systems Analysis & Design, Information Systems Security.

I was educated at St. Paul's Community College (5 minutes walk from WIT) and subsequently pursued a degree in Information Technology & Telecommunications at the University of Limerick in 1998. While studying for my degree I developed an interest in Voice over IP, and gained my Masters in Engineering by Research in the field of VoIP, also at UL.

Entreprenaurial in spirit, I gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Enterprise Development from WIT in 2006, and used the attained knowledge to offer Web consultancy services to Micro and Startup Businesses in the region.

Lecturing on a range of undergraduate  and postgraduate programmes in the School of Business including: 

  • BA Marketing with Advertising & Online Media (Modules: Digital Marketing, Digital Media Advertising, Advertising Strategy)
  • MSc Global Financial Information Systems (Global Financial Information Systems Security, Continuity & Ethics)
  • MSc in Business, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (Technology & Systems Management)
  • Cert in eBusiness Promotion (Digital Marketing & Social Media)
  • BSc (Hons) Retail Management  (IT Skills)
  • Bachelor of Business (Modules: IT Skills, Fundamentals of Marketing)
  • Higher Cert in Business Studies (Modules: IT Skills, Fundamentals of Marketing)
  • New Venture Initiative (Social Media)

My main areas of content delivery are:

  • Web Development - HTML, CSS, JQuery
  • Web Programming - PHP, MySQL
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Digital Marketing
  • Social Media
  • Cloud Computing
  • Information Systems Security
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • IT Skills
  • Fundamentals of Marketing