Resume
Patient Advocacy:
- graduate of the IPPOSI Patient Education programme (2023-2024).
- currently attending the EUPATI Patient Expert Training Programme (2024-2025)
- member of the Rare Disease Patient Forum
- member of the UCD Radiography Patient and Advocate Advisory Group (PAAG)
- patient partner in the HealthData@IE project
Lace Activism:
- Founding member of Friends of Lace Limerick (2017)
- Communication Officer for Friends of Lace Limerick (2023-present)
- project manager and web master of the Laces of Ireland project
- Member of the Guild of Irish Lacemakers(2023 -present)
- Member of OIDFA and IOLI(2022 -present)
Work Experience:
- January 2023 – retired from my position at the University of Limerick. Became Emeritus Associate Professor.
- May 2023 – December 2023 – Associate Professor in Digital Media Design & Interaction Design, Interaction Design Centre, CSIS Department, University of Limerick
- Sept 2008 – May 2023 – Lecturer in Digital Media Design & Interaction Design, senior research fellow at the Interaction Design Centre, CSIS Department, University of Limerick
- 2005-2008 – Research fellow at the Interaction Design Centre & Lero, University of Limerick– socGSD project
- 2003-2005 – ERCIM post-doctoral research fellow in KM & e-learning at
- 1994-2003 – Lecturer, CIO and International Officer at AISTEDA University, Alba Iulia, Romania
- 1981-1994 – Software developer, business analyst, project manager, IT trainer, IT consultant at the Regional Computing Centre Alba, Romania
Teaching Experience:
- 2006-2023 – University of Limerick
Undergraduate courses:- Introduction to Digital Media module for the DMD and MMPT programs (2006-2020)
- Directed Study (2015-2021)
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work(2008-2021)
- Multimedia Industry Perspectives (2009-2014)
- Social Media for Social Good (2015-2020)
Graduate level courses:
- Interactive Media Design for eLearning – for the eLearning master program (2008-2009)
- Principles of Interactive Media Design (2009-2021) – for the IMedia master’s program
- 2004-2005 – online course on Personal Content Management in the framework of the Pellea Socrates Project
- 2004 – Knowledge Management and Organisation module, for the KM MBA students at CNAM, Paris, France
- 1994-2003 – AISTEDA University, Alba Iulia, Romania, lecturer (DBMS, Expert Systems, Information Systems)
- 1990-1994 – IT instructor (DBMS and business applications programming), the Regional Computing Centre Alba, Romania
Education
- 2001 – PhD in Information Systems from the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
- 1981 – BSc in Cybernetics, Economics & Planning
Languages
- English, French, German, Romanian
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