I began my computing career back in 1979 with Guinness PLC. In the ten years or so until 1989 when I left the company, I had a wide range of jobs, starting as a computer operator and progressing through programming, systems analysis, and then eventually to my final appointment with Guinness as Business Information Manager. I left Guinness in 1989 to join the IBM IISL software laboratory in Dublin as a consultant/project leader. I spent much of the time abroad and performed assignments in America, Switzerland, France, Germany and Finland. My work related to the design of generic data models for large financial institutions. I have completed many assignments as an independent consultant notably in the area of software engineering methodologies, processes and practices for companies and organisations such as IBM, Forbairt (Eolas), Guinness PLC an Odyssey Information Systems Ltd. I came to DCU in 1991 as a lecturer and I completed my Ph.D at Trinity College in the area of formal models for multidatabase systems in 1994. My supervisor was Professor Jane Grimson . I was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2001. I have Chaired two Programme Boards here at DCU: first I chaired the Master's Degree in Computer Applications for three years from 1994 to 1997; then I chaired the B.Sc. in Computer Applications (Evening) for five years. I currently coordinate the practicum component of the new M.Sc in Software Engineering. I was Director of Development for this programme and together with the development team brought it through the accreditation process to its successful launch this year. I am a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society.