Current

• Owner at Passion Development
• Member at Dublin Java Users Group

Past

• Technical Architect (Contract) at System Dynamics
• Senior Java Developer(Contract) at System Dynamics
• Java Developer(Contract) at Strandum

• Java Developer(Contract) at InfiniteAgent
• Designer/Developer/Mentor at Accenture
• Software Design Engineer at Openet Telecom

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Education

• Griffith College Dublin
• Waterford Institute of Technology
• Waterford Institute of Technology

• Waterford Institute of Technology

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Industry

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Summary

Specialties:

Experience

• Owner

  Passion Development

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2006 — Present (4 years )

  Founder of Passion Development, a software consultancy specialising in J2EE development.

• Member

  Dublin Java Users Group

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2003 — Present (7 years )

  Joined the Dublin Java meet up group back in April 2003, now www.dubjug.org

• Technical Architect (Contract)

  System Dynamics

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2009 — February 2010 (8 months)

• Senior Java Developer(Contract)

  System Dynamics

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — June 2009 (1 year )

  Assistant Team lead of the Common Services Screens team for the eStamping application.
  Project planning and estimation of new features.
  Technical Design/ Implementation of Front End Features.
  Peer review of developers’ code.
  Support/mentoring of junior developers.
  Technical issue resolution across all project teams.
  Implementation of JSP automated testing.

  Spring Webflow, JSP, JSTL, JAXB, Webservices, Selenium

• Java Developer(Contract)

  Strandum

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  Joined Strandum initially on a 6 month contract.

  Design, development and support of various rich internet applications (RIA).
  Mentoring and supervising of junior developers.

  Also, worked directly with Strandum's customers to train users, gather requirements and support the product as well as performing client installations for Strandum's HR Software Solution.

• Java Developer(Contract)

  InfiniteAgent

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — November 2006 (7 months)

  Developed intelligent instant messaging bots used in natural language processing via various IM protocols.

• Designer/Developer/Mentor

  Accenture

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Computer Software industry)

  April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Lead Developer/Designer for Accenture Ireland on a prominent Government Client site in Dublin. Responsible for the design and development of a J2EE system used by the client to process over 120,000 applications per year and pay out over €1 billion in EU subsidies. Technologies used included Struts, I-Batis and Oracle OC4J. Also mentor/lead for junior developer's on the project.

• Software Design Engineer

  Openet Telecom

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2001 — May 2005 (4 years 1 month)

  Designed and developed core features of the Fusionworks product both independently and as part of development team. Domain expert for the System Manager product as well as for installation process of all products.
  Developed and deployed “Prof of Concepts”, for major clients.
  Member of the Product Department Process review group.
  Technologies included J2SE, Eclipse, CORBA, Swing, Oracle, SQL.

Education

• Griffith College Dublin

  M.Sc(Hons) in Computing(Part-Time) , 2004 — 2006

  1st Class Honors with GPA of 3.9 out of 4

• Waterford Institute of Technology

  B.Sc.(Hons) in Commercial Software Development , 1999 — 2000

• Waterford Institute of Technology

  Diploma , Diploma in Commercial Computing , 1998 — 1999

• Waterford Institute of Technology

  Certficate in Commerical Computing 1996 — 1998