Managing Director of Maurice Doody Sales Ltd. (www.mauricedoodysales.com), a 100% Irish owned, Limerick based Welding and Industrial Supply business founded over 30 years ago. MDS supply a broad range of industrial products to companies operating in the Engineering, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Transportation, Fabrication, Electrical, Plumbing and General Manufacturing industries. MDS are the largest stockist of Milwaukee Power Tools in the Mid-West of Ireland and also stock many other quality brands such as Holemaker Technology, Toughbuilt, JASIC, Ega Master, Camp Professional, Irwin, Stanley, Bahco and many more. The foundation of our success is our knowledgeable staff, our stock levels and our network of trusted suppliers. Recently (Nov '23) retired from Academia after more than 30 years my last academic positions included Co-Founder/Director (RFID, Internet of Things and Sensors) of the IMaR Research Centre at the Munster Technological University, Kerry and supervisor of PhD and MSc. candidates. IMaR has been a member of Enterprise Ireland's Technology Gateway network since April 2013. I continue to be a member of IMaR's industrial steering committee. Previously I Co-Founded and held the position of Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation in Distributed Systems (CIDS) which was founded in partnership with the Forum for Supply Chain Innovation at MIT. At MTU, I directed and supervised a team of applied researchers and postgraduates undertaking projects in IIoT, RFID, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks applied to Agri/Food, BioEconomy, Data Management, Drone Flight, Healthcare and Image Recognition and Performance Training among others. I have a BSc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Limerick obtained in 1991 and a PhD in Mathematics that focussed on optimal model selection in Feed-Forward Neural Networks from the University Of Limerick (1998).