Dr. Claudine Allen is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Faculty of Science and Technology. Dr. Allen's career in the field includes work in the insurance industry as a systems administrator and IT manager and lecturer at the University of Technology for over 12 years. Her Ph.D. in Computer Science is from The UWI as are her B.Sc. and M. Phil. Dr. Allen's resaerch interests are software architectural debt; software quality characteristics, teaching strategies in software design; applying software engineering principles to development of e-learning content