Dr Moir received his first degree in Control Engineering and a Ph.D on Estimation theory and Control. He worked as a lecturer at Paisley College (later Paisley University and University of the West of Scotland) in Scotland from 1983-1999. Whilst at Paisley he also joined a small company called Ampsys Electronics as a research and design engineer. The work entailed design and research of special circuitry on applications of the Amplitude-Locked Loop which was patented by the same company. He then moved to New Zealand and worked at Massey University, followed by Auckland University of Technology (AUT) as an associate professor in Electrical Engineering. He has published 2 books, over 100 journal papers and a similar number of conference papers in signal-processing and control-systems.