I am a Project Manager at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. DERI is the largest semantic research organization in the world. I manage the INDRA commercialisation effort. In conjunction with industrial partners, INDRA will drive the technology transfer of semantic technology into the commercial domain. I previously served as a research fellow in the Information Technology Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

My main research interests include:

• Semanitic Search
• Reflective self-management techniques
• Asynchronous messaging services
• Nature-inspired techniques
• Parallel, asynchronous and decentralised environments
• Software design
• Empirical evaluation techniques