I have spent more than 40 years designing software, and the last decade building and publishing games with DFT Games Studios, the family studio I founded in Ireland. We work in Unreal Engine 5 today, and our current title, Alembix, a free-to-play alchemy card game, is on Steam.

Before that, I designed systems for companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology and J.P. Morgan, in fields from automotive to healthcare. Games remain the work I enjoy most: they are fun, and they never let you stop learning.

Teaching was my first trade, and it never left me. I lecture in game development and computing at South East Technological University, and in Cybersecurity and AI at the UCD Professional Academy, and I hold the Unreal Authorized Instructor credential from Epic Games. Alongside the studio, I run an independent research programme on AI systems.

My courses are the same thing I do in the lecture hall: practical, engineering-led, and built so you can carry the method into your own projects.