In 2014 I founded the charity eQuality Time. We look at ways that technology can make a difference to social problems. We have funded projects addressing new approaches to English as a Foreign language, Child Literacy, Communication Disability, and Disability Awareness.

As part of the PLanCompS Project I work mainly on language specification, validation, creation of tools, and implementation of the open-access repository. The project goal is to dramatically lower the effort of giving formal specifications of larger languages, and increase the tangible benefits of doing so. My responsibilities focus on the design and implementation of tools to support creation and checking of language specifications, and generation of prototype imple-mentations from them.

As a part time Teaching Fellow I took a lead role in the postgraduate course ‘People and technology’ for the iCOM centre. I spent my remaining time as a Visiting Lecturer for the Computer Science department where I taught the 2nd year computer science course ‘Algorithms and complexity’. As a result of this work, I received the college excellence teaching prize for 2010/2011.

The ‘How was school today. . . ?’ project mined sensor data to develop systems that automati- cally add new content to speech aids used by disabled children. I had overall responsibility for designing and deploying the wireless system used to track children around schools, as well as the integration of the overall system. I contributed to a number of research publications and travelled to Pittsburgh to discuss our research with project partners. The post also extended to cover supervision a final year project students with game-design projects and teaching several short courses in basic information technology.

Delivered specially tailored IT training sessions across a wide range of areas to university staff and students. I later specialised in training students from the Health and Social Care to achieve their mandatory ECDL qualification. I prepared and delivered a variety of specialised teaching programs including a full-time, two week course. For my work with the computer centre I received the postgraduate tutor award for the 2007/2008 academic year.

Continuing my work with customised instruction sets I created a results database that enabled other research groups to accurately compare experiments and also produced a number of papers.

Working within a team of software engineers I produced tools and developed processes to sup- port extraction and interpretation of user data. This included strong experience in commercial software engineering with C#, and javascript. This supported such activities as evidence cap- ture from seized computers and mobile phones, tracking of mobile phones by cell signal, and penetration testing. During an end-to-end review of the forensic reporting procedures I gained a thorough understanding of the open questions and challenges in digital forensics.