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Mrs Angela Howard


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


Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/users/howarda
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Professional Memberships
Member of the Australian Computer Society (http://www.acs.org.au/)
Member of the Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org/)

Research Interests
Security (Wireless, Network, Profiling)
Wireless Technologies
Combining IT with Psychology
Object-oriented Programming Languages (Java, C#, JavaScript) and Methodologies
eXtreme Programming (Agile)
Software and component design and development
Web Application Design and Development (VS.NET, DreamWeaver, etc.)
Project Leadership and Management
SQL database, ADO.NET
XML (incl. Topic Maps, Web Services, SOAP), CSS, XSL, HTML
Visual Studio .NET (VS 2003+2005, ASP.NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.0,VB, C#)
Component Development
Web Services
CISCO (Switch, Router) and Networking
Web 2.0, Green IT, Systems Security
13 years of software development in the Industry

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.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs
CIS3001 (Semester 1) Object Oriented Programming with Java
CIS3003 (Semester 1) Networks and Distributed Systems
CIS2003 (Semester 2) Component Based Software Development
CIS3007 (Semester 2) Enterprise Systems Development and Architecture
CIS2005 (Semester 2) Principles of Information Security (2007)
CIS2003 (Semester 6) Component Based Software Development

Teaching Experience
Tertiary : 7 years