I lead the Enabling Computing Technology research domain of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in which research is conducted in the areas of computer science, mathematics and security by teams located in Ireland, France and the United States.

Prior to leading the ECT domain, I spent three years in Ireland as the executive director establishing Bell Labs Ireland, the youngest branch of Bell Labs. During that time I also served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR), a national academic consortium headquartered at Trinity College Dublin where I was a visiting professor.

I now focus primarily on leading research organizations. My earlier applied mathematics research ranged from applications in subsurface flow simulation to optical fiber design, from the design of finite elements to simulation platforms for optical line system control. A good fit for the industrial research environment, I felt a particular sense of accomplishment seeing innovations to which I've had an opportunity to contribute as part of a team being commercialized. Examples of this include optical fiber device designs that became the TrueWave™ REACH fiber and design and control strategies for nation-scale optical transmission networks such as those enabled by the Alcatel-Lucent 1625 LambdaXtreme Transport.

I received my PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University for work on the analysis of domain decomposition techniques for partial differential equations. I had the pleasure of learning about both scientific research and the "business" of doing collaborative research from my advisor Dr. Mary Wheeler.

When not trying to enable innovation in communications, I'm likely to be found fishing, or in my vegetable garden, or trying to improve my feeble poker game.