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Expert has strong industrial research coupled with teaching background and experience in software and systems engineering methods & lifecycle, software development, Agile software engineering, project management skills, process improvement skills, internet technology, mobile, networks, and distributed computing, real-time & embedded systems, and IT systems development for the past 25 years. He has obtained a PhD in Software Reuse/Software Engineering (Lancaster University) in supporting his background in Advanced Software Engineering and Computer Science. He has attained a track record of publications and international collaborations. In addition, he has learned abilities in working with people, team management, multi-cultural knowledge and understanding, managing difficult circumstances: negotiation, advocacy and persuasion, together with evidence of motivation, initiative, hard work, patience and confidence.

Statement of Research: Statement of Research interests include professional activity, international research collaborations, novel and multi-disciplinary approaches to systems & software modelling methods & techniques, multimedia systems, social aspects of computing, internationalisation, multi-device internet systems, internet & mobile computing, analysis of algorithm & programming languages, development paradigms, bioinformatics, safety-critical analysis, software testing & Quality (ASQC certified), software project management, software internationalisation, social and ethical issues, cognitive approaches to software development, graphical notation for formal methods, software engineering methods & techniques, software reuse, software component technologies (automated generation of components with design frameworks and guidelines), software architectural design approaches, product line and product family based approaches, domain engineering for reuse with knowledge based approaches, software architecture, patterns & OO, teaching methods and philosophy, investigation into e-learning techniques, software process improvement (SPI), real-time & embedded systems (Avionic systems and consumer electronics systems), and product innovation. Invited speaker and published internationally.

Successfully supervised more than seven PhD degree students. Track record of funded research from ESSI/ESPRIT (MultiSpace, ARES), EU funded Framework proposals (FP6, FP7), HEA ICS Development Fund (Multimedia for Teaching SE) and EPSRC-CASE (Lancaster Univ. and South Bank Univ.). Track record of publication include an authored book on Software Components: Guidelines and Applications (Nova), one edited Handbook of Research in Software Engineering: productivity and Globalisation (IGI), 10 book chapters, and published more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers, and technical reports.

His research experience--both industrial and academic--will contribute to the current and future development of new courses and research. His EU Framework Projects (FP6) experiences have helped to increase research and international profile of the University. His industrial consultancy has contributed to the development of knowledge transfer and company training. Significant contribution to previous REA, RAE 2008 (contributed to two areas: Information Management and Computing/Engineering). Current research interests extend to application of forensic computing and project management to disaster management, application of software components and architecture to mobile computing, network management, security, service-oriented computing, and grid and distributed systems.

Statement of Teaching & Learning: Statement of teaching includes widening participation, training people where skills are needed, preparing and keeping up with recent development

Software process improvement for SMEs: developed reseach training and consultancy with local businesses.