Profile

When I left university as an engineer here In Ireland in 1992, I started my life working in Japan and had such a great time experiencing new food, meeting lots of people and making new friends. Japan is a beautiful country with lots of mountains, interesting towns, and seaside’s that I used to love driving around exploring. To this day, this has inspired my love of adventure! I found out that people in Japan and Ireland are quite similar.

I spent a long time in Japan working for a few companies and eventually found out that I liked working in the semiconductor industry, I used to design electronic microchips (not potatoes !)  for DVD players.  We don’t use DVD players anymore as we have Netflix and Amazon Prime services that work with smart TVs.

I moved back to Ireland over 20 years ago and begun my working  life at university helping students to learn new ways of using electronics that hopefully make our world better!

I teach students about how electronics and computers are used in different things, like heart monitors, artificial intelligence (AI), and even how a mobile phone works! Right now, I’m especially interested in medical technology and how electronics can make our lives better.

Radar technology is like a superpower that lets us “see” things that are far away, even if we can’t see them with our eyes. It works by sending out invisible waves, like sound waves or light waves, which bounce off objects and come back. By listening to these waves when they return, radar can tell where things are, how far away they are, and how fast they’re moving—kind of like how bats use sound to find their way in the dark!