He holds a Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from the University of New South Wales, a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Sydney and a M.Com. degree in Information Systems from the University of New South Wales.  He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the PMI, a Certified Software Quality Assessor (ISO9000 Auditor), has been certified as a Quality Analyst (QAI), has been certified with Assessment and Workplace training and has a Graduate Diploma in Company Directorship.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a full member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the Australian Institute of Management (AIM), the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), and the IEEE.

Since 1991, Dr Wong has been engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the fields of software quality assurance, software engineering, project management, and information systems. During this time he has established new courses in Project Management and Software Quality Assurance.  He has supervised a number of postgraduate research projects, and mentored a number of industry students.

Dr Wong has over twenty-five years of industry experience, where he has worked as a programmer, an analyst/programmer, a systems analyst, a business analyst, a project manager, an I.T. trainer, an IT Manager and a CIO.  He has consulted to companies large and small, in both the public and private sectors. The commercial exposure has been extremely important to his academic contribution. Not only has it supplied him with many case studies, essential for relevant teaching, it has also been invaluable as a source to his research.