My Background

I studied for my bachelors degree in Electronics at the University of Southampton and remained there for a PhD in Control Engineering. I then took a "gap year" working as a lecturer in the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, before returning to Southampton as a Research Fellow working on Human Factors.

I then moved to the University of Warwick to begin what turned out to be more than 30 years as a lecturer and then an Associate Professor within its School of Engineering. Here I worked on a wide range of research projects based initially on the industrial use of microcomputers and later on Safety Critical Systems. During this time I became a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET), a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered I.T. Professional (CITP) and a European Engineer (Eur Ing).

My research has resulted in the production of a large number of research papers and I have presented many of these at conferences throughout the world. I have also written several text books in the areas of Electronics and Safety Critical Systems.