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Mrs Angela Howard

Name :	Mrs Angela Howard
Position :	Lecturer (Information Systems)
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Information Systems
Office :	T338
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 5503
Extension :	5503
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BIT UCSQ BSc, MBusRsch USQ

Professional Memberships

Member of the Australian Computer Society (www.acs.org.au)
Member of the Internet Society (www.isoc.org)
Member of the Australian Information Security Association (www.aisa.org.au)
Go WEST Executive member

Research Interests

Systems Security (Wireless, Network, Profiling/social engineering)
Wireless Technologies
Combining IT with Psychology (hackers, social engineering)
Object-oriented Programming Languages (Java, C#, JavaScript)
Object-oriented Principles and Methodologies
eXtreme Programming (Agile)
Software and component design and development
Web Application Design and Development (VS.NET, DreamWeaver, etc.)
IT Project Leadership and Management
SQL database, ADO.NET, Microsoft Access
XML (incl. Topic Maps, Web Services, SOAP), CSS, XSL, HTML
Visual Studio .NET (VS 2003+2005+2010, ASP.NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0,VB, C#)
Component Development
Web Services (SOAP)
CISCO (Switch, Router) and Networking
Web 2.0, Green IT
Functional programming principles in Scala
Strategic Information Security (for management)
Enterprise Digital Infrastructure (for management)
13 years of software development in the Industry creating business solutions that work effectively and user friendly

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

2009
Lane, Michael S. and Howard, Angela and Howard, Srecko (2009) The energy inefficiency of office computing and potential emerging technology solutions. Journal of Issues in Informing Science & Information Technology , 6 . pp. 795-808. ISSN 1547-5840 (Print), 1547-5867 (Online)

2006
Howard, Angela and Hafeez-Baig, Abdul and Howard, Srecko and Gururajan, Raj (2006) A framework for the adoption of wireless technology in healthcare: an Indian study. In: ACIS 2006 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems: Thought, Leadership in IS, 06-08 Dec 2006, Adelaide, Australia.

Das Gupta, Jishu and Howard, Srecko and Howard, Angela (2006) Traffic behaviour of VoIP in a simulated access network. International Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, 18 . pp. 189-194. ISSN 1305-5313

2004
Gururajan, Raj and Howard, Angela (2004) The problems of implementing electronic signatures in a wireless environment. In: 9th Asia-Pacific Decision Sciences Institute (APDSI ’04), 01-04 July 2004, Seoul, Korea.

Howard, Angela and Low, Ee Kuan and Byrnes, Peter and Gururajan, Raj (2004) Wireless emails: issues, challenges and guidelines for implementation. In: 1st Australian Aged and Community Care Informatics Conference (ACCIC'04), 24-25 Aug 2004, Brisbane, Australia.

Most notable :
2011 - Go WEST Professional/Business Research award

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

CIS3001 Object Oriented Programming with Java
CIS3003 Networks and Distributed Systems
CIS2003 Component Based Software Development
CIS3007 Enterprise Systems Development and Architecture
CIS2005 Principles of Information Security
CIS8018 Information Security for Managers
CIS8009 Enterprise Digital Infrastructure
CIS3011 Information Systems Project

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 11 years