About Des McNelis
Good day!
I retired a few years ago from a 30-year career in IT (mostly technical: O/S’s, hardware, telecoms, Databases, programming, Systems Design,,).
As a personal project, I am analysing aspects of Proportional Representation – the Single Transferable Vote (STV).
In the seventies and the noughties I participated in Forest Rallying. This was thoroughly enjoyable and very exciting! In the eighties I held a Private Pilots License (PPL). This enabled me to enjoy flying in Scotland, England, Ireland and the USA.
Since my retirement I have been fortunate enough to travel (mainly Europe) with my partner Ellen.
Recent Academic Studies
BSc (Open) Honours degree completed in 2020.
Completed modules (most recent first):
TM352 Web, mobile and cloud technologies
T312 Electronics; signal processing, control and communications
TM351 Data Management and Analysis
A333 Key Questions in Philosophy
SD329 Signals and perception: the science of the senses
T212 Electronics: sensing, logic and actuation
TA212 The technology of music
MS221 Exploring mathematics
M248 Analysing data
M249 Practical modern statistics
MST121 Using mathematics
DSE141 Discovering psychology
Also, Post-Graduate Certificate in IT
[Computer Science / Databases / OOPS/C++ / The Internet]