I am a professor of computer science who has pursued research into automated planning and scheduling since 1989 when I finished my PhD. I work in an academic department and undertake academic research. My research concerns design and implementation of planning algorithms that solve the combinatorial problem of finding activities that convert an initial state into a required goal state. These algorithms cope with temporal and resource constraints on actvities and are domain-independent, meaning that they are not designed for use in any specific application but can be parameterised by models of different application domains.