A boutique consultancy of Transformation Specialists helping organisations to deliver substantive and sustainable outcomes.

UCC Academy is the in-house consultancy of University College Cork working collaboratively with colleagues throughout the University to define, develop, drive and deliver key projects that further the university's strategic goals.

Set up Programme Management Office for Irish operation. Managed large complex portfolio of project delivering to global teams.Developed full scale project plans innovating to scale using standardised templates. Created Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Delivered an annual conference in conjunction with UCC and MIDAS Ireland. Steering Committee Member at Microelectronics Circuits Centre Ireland, Tyndall Institute.Collaborated with teams in US and India to develop and implement PM best practices. Worked with Irish and European universities to attract graduates to Ireland.Developed a global review process delivering project critical information toData and metric mining, and analysis to assist senior leadership decision making.

PM for a corporate wide initiative to create new and non-traditional businesses.Established a PMO for Integrated Systems and Transceivers Group.Led a project with a history of missing milestones and high risk of losing key Customer. Collaborated with Design, Validation, Marketing, Test and Applications Teams and met or exceeded all major milestones .Worked closely with Legal on 3rd party contracts in time critical situations.Created a Change Management process allowing data driven analysis of trade-offs.Managed complex multi-million-dollar budgets.Collaborated with global teams to develop PM best practices.

Managed highly innovative development projects resulting in successful field trials with Samsung in South Korea.Balanced schedule and budget constraints in the context of a start-up environment.

Consultancy position; Developed full scale plans for a software project that integrated the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport system with Police fines collection system. Created a change control process.

Managed 2.5G EDGE transceiver from concept through to ramping with Tier 1 customer realising cost and yield improvements over baseline. Co-ordinated activity with global design teams based in Cork, Arizona, Illinois and Moscow. Collaborated on advanced package technology for state of the art transceiver. Assisted with bring-up of different fabrication plants and packaging providers. Directed contract negotiation with external suppliers.Note: Formerly Motorola Semiconductor

Responsibilities included leading global negotiations, managing key accounts, identifying new business opportunities, and market analysis. Promoted to 3COM European Account Manager

Established Mitsubishi sales presence in Ireland. Supported major US multi-national accounts in Ireland and Scotland. Promoted to European Sales Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

US Company who set up a manufacturing base in Ireland. Component and capital equipment procurement.