She is the Deputy Head of School (Research) of the School of Professional Practice and Leadership at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia. Her research interests are in the contextual nexus of Learning sciences, Usability Evaluation, Human Computer Interaction, Education Technology and Individual Differences. She has served on a number of prestigious journals including Education Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), Internet and Higher Education and the Journal of Computing in Higher Education, (JCHE) where she was an Associate Editor.

She received her BSc Computer Science from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago; her MSc Software Development and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA and her PhD in Information Science and Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She has a Blended Learning Designer certificate from the University of Central Florida, and holds certifications as a Creative Commons Educator, Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma.

She is an Organisation of American States (OAS) and Fulbright Scholar who has worked at University of Melbourne, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, and the University of the West Indies Open Campus. She has over 70 research outputs which includes an open sourced book published by Springer titled Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Solutions. She has received numerous awards including Instructor of the Year in 2013 from University of Missouri; Excellence award in 2012 from the Project Management Institute, Outstanding Publication award in 2018 from the Association for Education Communications and Technology and Leaner Engagement and Social Impact awards in 2022.

She has served as the Leader of the learning design team in the Faculty of Science and as the lead for various Faculty of Science projects (e.g., Blackboard to Canvas conversion, COVID design and delivery). She joined the Faculty of Engineering and IT in 2023 as a member of the Professional Practice and Leadership School.