Professional Experience
Academic
1/1/08-date Professor, Concordia University, Montréal (Québec), CANADA.
1/4/09-date NSERC/Hydro-Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair
1/1/17-date Honorary Professor in Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, S.A.
1/1/99 - To date Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, S.A.
7/1/97 - 12/31/07 Professor in ECE and Jean Newell Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Clarkson University.
8/15/95 - 6/30/97 Associate Professor and Jean Newell Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Clarkson University.
8/15/93 - 8/14/95 Associate Professor and Director: Industry Applications and Energy Conversion of the Center for the Application of Power and Instrumentation, University of New Orleans.
8/20/90 - 8/14/93 Assistant Professor and Associate Director: Center for the Application of Power and Instrumentation, University of New Orleans.
1/1/88 - 8/19/90 Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Industrial and Other
12/05 Consultant to the SA Government on renewable energy.
8/8/01 - 8/29/01 Danfoss Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark.
6/20/94 - 8/12/94 Research faculty participant, Oak Ridge National Labs.
4/1/93 - To date Consultant to Certek Corporation on permanent magnet generators, Entergy Enterprises on energy efficient controllers, Powertronics on permanent magnet generators. ORNL on energy efficient motors.
6/1/92 - 8/1/92  Consultant to Kollmorgen Corporation, Radford, Virginia on industrial drives.
1/1/88 - 8/20/90 Consultant to British Gas, Sevcon and Pakcenter, England on drives and power electronics.
1/1/84 - 8/14/84 Electrical engineer, Electricity Supply Commission, S.A., faultfinding on the high voltage grid and responsible for the complete commissioning of a 132kV/11kV 20MVA substation.
8/4/80 - 1/30/81 Engineer in training, Mondi Paper Co., S.A., responsible for faultfinding on DC drives and commissioning of low and high voltage motors and switchgear.