Industrial Fellow
I am a visiting researcher/Industrial Fellow to the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Group at the University of Nottingham.
LANCS Initiative
Appointed to the Industrial Board of the recent 13 Million pounds initiative in the area of Operational Research
EventMAP Limited
Managing Director of a software company whose equity investors include Queen’s University of Belfast (QUBIS) and University of Nottingham. Developing on the success of the examination timetabling software package Optime, EventMAP Limited was formed with the aim of introducing further timetabling and modelling product into the educational sector. We are currently Involved with the development of academic scheduling software. Current customers exist in UK, France, Portugal, America, New Zealand and Australia.
Data and information received through the Company has been fundamental in achieving research goals to date. There are a number of Grant application currently under development based on the experiences achieved through working as part of the company.
EventMAP have recently gained a strategic allience with a leading International Timetabling Companies, CELCAT. In conjunction with helping with the marketing efforts, EventMAP are integrating leading edge research techniques within the Celcat product offering.
The next steps for EventMAP are defining the market oportunity which exists in relation to providing optimisation tools incorporating leading edge research techniques. Areas which are of interest are Healthcare, Airlines, Advertisers, Production Lines and Work Force.
Realtime Solutions Limited
Managing Director of a software company responsible for developing of space planning and management software for the higher education. Based on research at Queen's University and with the ASAP Group at the University of Nottingham.
After carrying out my Master’s Thesis on academic scheduling in 1993, I began the investigation of the association of space management and resource timetabling issues within the Examination Timetabling Office at Queen’s University and subsequently at the University of Nottingham in 1995.
There, in his capacity of Intuitional Scheduling and Planning Officer, I was responsible for the implementation of a large enterprise scheduling management information system across the University.
In conjunction with 2 colleagues, Realtime Solutions was set up in 1998 in response to receiving significant funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Nottingham Trent University for the purpose of understanding the methodologies used across disparate institutions in the UK sector for the planning and management of space.
The resulting report, made available to the sector in 2004, concluded that much work needed to be done if UK Universities where to use their space in anything like an acceptable efficiency. This is currently the subject of a major research initiative.
In carrying out this work, RTS become involved with a number of projects in Australia and the middle East where issues relating to master plan development were highly pertinent. This has resulted in a substantial consultancy effort utilising leading edge research techniques to help aid the architectural effort.