I work in the fields of management and systems assurance (cybersecurity focus) with a particular interest in mission-critical systems used in regulated sectors like finance, transport and health.
I began my academic career in the University of Waterloo's School of Accounting and Finance where my interest in the design and use of large scale financial systems was nurtured.
I moved to a major business school for 10 years where I contributed to the training of professional accountants while developing my research career and returned to the University of Waterloo in 2004 to take up the JW Graham Chair in Health Information Systems. The chair was named after Professor J Wes Graham who was a founding member of the academic unit that is known today as the David R Cheritan School of Computer Science -- home of the largest concentration of computer science researchers in Canada.
I am jointly appointed to both the School of Public Health Sciences and the Cheriton School of Computer Science. I am actively involved in knowledge mobilisation and have served as a subject matter expert on national and provincial committees with mandates related to information systems, in governance roles for national and provincial agencies/organisations, as a contributor to commissions and inquiries, and in a central administrative role at Waterloo. I served as the Director of the School of Public Health's Professional Practice Centre in Health Systems , am a member of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Insitute and am a member of the CrySP group in the Cheriton School of Computer Science.
If you are an agency or government group interested in in partnering with us, or exploring research opportunities, please feel free to reach out using my email below. (Yup. That's me in the photo in my "other" life in maritime search and rescue.)
