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I am an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT) at the Turitea (Palmerston North) Campus of Massey University. I am also the major leader of the Software Engineering program at Massey. I have a Master in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig. I have worked for a couple of years in industry as consultant in Germany, Namibia, Switzerland and the UK, and returned in 2003 to academia. My research interests are in the areas of design pattern formalisation, software componentry, agile software engineering techniques and business rule automation. Please follow the links in the sidebar for detailed information on my research, consulting and teaching activities.
 
If you are a prospective student and interested in software engineering, then you might find this guide how to study Software Engineering I have written useful. Also have a look at some of the software students I have taught and supervised have written.

If you are considering postgraduate studies in software engineering, have a look at the latest project offers for 2014.

If you are a practising software engineer, please consider completing the developer survey on binary vs source compatibility. I have created this survey in order to find out whether developers are aware of the subtle differences between source and binary compatibility between client programs and the libraries these programs use. The style of this survey is inspired by Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter, and some of the questions are challenging even for experienced programmers.
You might also find this tool I have developed useful: the Massey Architecture Explorer (MAE). You can simply upload your compiled program (Java bytecode), and MAE will visualise it, allow you to query your program for violating OO design principles, and find critical dependencies preventing your from modularising your program.
  
If you are an academic or a student studying at another university: I am working on making all lecture note available to the public under the creative commons license, the first set for a second year course on software design and construction is now available. Note that this does not include some additional material like video lectures and tutorials - this is only available to enrolled students. I also maintain an open source repository with examples I use for teaching software design and construction, incl examples using design patterns, modularity, web application design  etc. Feel free to use this material, but please give me some credit if you do.   

Contact

Massey University, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Private Bag 11 222, 
4442  Palmerston North, New Zealand
Phone +64 6 350 5799 extn 2212
Office: AgHort-A 3.88



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