Senior Fellow / Industry Liaison: Network and Service Management

Minimum Qualification Required:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or cognate discipline
Major Duties:
The candidate will work as a senior member of the Science Foundation Ireland funded FAME strategic research cluster (http://www.fame.ie), comprising TSSG and research groups from Irish universities Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Maynooth, together with Irish R&D centres of Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM and international researchers from HP and Telefónica I+D.
Reporting to the FAME director, Dr Willie Donnelly, the candidate will assume responsibility for coordinating academic partner liaison with industry partners and supporting the development and exploitation of the cluster’s intellectual property portfolio. In parallel, the candidate will actively contribute to TSSG’s FAME research programme in one or more of the areas of: autonomic network and service management; service-level monitoring; management policy authoring and analysis; initialisation and control of management federations; and distributed resource allocation in wired and wireless networks. The candidate will work closely with the existing team of TSSG post-doctoral researchers and be a member of the supervisory committees of a number of PhD students. He/she will also have the opportunity to promote the engagement of the FAME cluster in ongoing and future European FP7 projects relating to Future Internet services, networks and security.

To apply for this position please submit a loose-leaf CV with accompanying letter/email specifying the position you are interested in before 5pm on 26th February 2010 to:
The Human Resources Office,
Waterford Institute of Technology,
Waterford,
Ireland.
Telephone: 051-845519
Fax: 051-302663
E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie