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County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Principal Technical Program Manager at Udemy within Org Success Portfolio primarily focused on Badges / Open Badges / Digital Credentials

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Principal Program Manager (within Global PMO Group) for Skillsoft Dual Role - Principal Program Manager (Multiple Programs)- Scrum Master (Formally Trained) Manage multiple Programs / Projects within the Percipio SaaS Learning Experience Platform Work with multiple remote teams in USA/India/Europe/Canada to deliver global Projects / ProgramsProvide ongoing Status updates to Executive Leadership TeamManage relationships / dependencies between Engineering / Product / Cloud Ops / SupportPrograms relate to a wide variety of areas:-Compliance Business Unit (Primary Role)- Programs / Projects include new Features / Infrastructure Updates & Upgrades / Fedramp-related Security Updates (Pen-Test Vulnerabilities / Container Scanning / Veracode) / Platform Migrations (incl AWS) / Accessibility (A11y) / Language Support and Customer-focused priority Defects / Requests / Tasks- Activities include Grooming / Planning / SAFe PI Planning / Scheduling / Tracking / Risk Management / Process Analysis / Strategic Planning / Roadmap Planning & Scheduling / Ongoing Process ImprovementAdditional (Secondary) Activities- Management of all Engineering-related Tools (Renewal / Usage / Budgeting) within Skillsoft including Administrator of key tools such as JIRA / Confluence / Slack - Misc. HR related functions for local resources (reviews / performance reviews)- Co-ordinate / oversee / report on the activity of several Agile Squads on legacy platforms

Dublin

Senior Program Manager (within PMO Group) for Skillsoft Dual Role - Senior Program Manager (Multiple Programs)- Scrum Master (Formally Trained) Manage multiple Programs / Projects within the Percipio SaaS Learning Experience Platform Work with multiple remote teams in USA/India/Europe to deliver global Projects / ProgramsProvide ongoing Status updates to Executive Leadership TeamManage relationships between Engineering / Product / Cloud Ops / SupportPrograms relate to a wide variety of areas:-Compliance Business Unit (Primary Role)- Programs / Projects include new Features / Infrastructure Updates & Upgrades / Fedramp-related Security Updates (Pen-Test Vulnerabilities / Container Scanning / Veracode) / Platform Migrations (incl AWS) / Accessibility (A11y) / Language Support and Customer-focused priority Defects / Requests / Tasks- Activities include Grooming / Planning / SAFe PI Planning / Scheduling / Tracking / Risk Management / Process Analysis / Ongoing Process ImprovementAdditional (Secondary) Activities- Management of all Engineering-related Tools (Renewal / Usage / Budgeting) within Skillsoft including Administrator of key tools such as JIRA / Confluence / Slack - Misc. HR related functions for local resources (reviews / performance reviews)- Co-ordinate / oversee / report on the activity of several Agile Squads on legacy platforms

Dublin

QA Manager for Skillsoft Player / Tools.- Responsible for multiple Skillsoft Products including Content Installer / Knowledge Centers / Synergy / SCP / RIA Content Players / SCM. - Responsibilities included Test Strategy / Planning / Estimation / Scheduling and Progress / Project Tracking. - Responsible for both onshore and offshore / remote QA Teams based in Ireland and Asia.- Liasing with Development Teams based in the USA and Asia (China)

Dublin

Principal QA Engineer on “Skillport” (SaaS cloud based Learning Management System (LMS)) and Skillsoft Player. - Responsibilities included the development of Test Plans / strategies from requirements / use case documentation for QA of new features. - Additional duties involve the management of off shore resources (China), defect / change management and status reporting. - Additional projects included Mobile migration project testing course players ported to mobile devices / tablet devices (Ipad / Iphone / Galaxy / Blackberry / Playbook) / Java migration projects / Video content projects- Platforms utilized included SQL Server / TOAD / TestTrack Pro (TTP) / Quicktest Professional (QTP) Automation Tool / MS Sharepoint / SOAP UI

Dublin,Ireland

Senior QA Engineer on “Skillport” (SaaS cloud based Learning Management System (LMS)). - - - Responsibilities included development of test plans / strategies from requirements and use case documentation for new features. - Additional duties involve the management of off shore resources (India / China), defect / change management and status reports. - Additional projects included Mobile migration project testing course players ported to mobile devices / tablet devices (Ipad / Iphone / Galaxy / Blackberry / Playbook)- Platforms utilized include SQL Server / TOAD / TestTrack Pro (TTP) / Quicktest Professional (QTP) Automation Tool / MS Sharepoint / SOAP UI

Bray,Wicklow

Operations Manager- Responsibilities included setup / management of digital video workflows incorporating Apple Mac OS, Final Cut Pro plus third party tools by Sony and Red. - Other core functions include all aspects of customer accounts including pricing , billing and debt collection / credit management / cash flow - Other duties involve dealing with foreign suppliers (partners / agents) / partnership management / partnership strategy

Dublin,Ireland

Responsibilities included the development of test plans and related data, project strategies, review of test plans, estimates, status reports and exit reports. Projects ranged from Bank Teller / Lending applications to back end batch core banking processes. Platforms included Windows / Linux / Solaris / Weblogic / Websphere / Oracle / DB2 / TOAD / SQL Plus / Fileaid (DB2). Tools included Compuware test suite specifically Test Partner / Track Record and QADirector.

Dublin,Ireland

My responsibilities included the development of test project strategies, test plans, status reports and exit reports within project timelines. During my last few months with Factor-e I was promoted to Technical Test Team Lead and was one of the most senior members of the test team. Following formal training on Mercury’s ‘Loadrunner’ tool I worked on performance testing and benchmarking both the German and UK Internet Banks.Other projects included UK and German Brokerage services, UK Debit Cards and WAP Mobile Banking plus ongoing development of core banking functions.

Sydney, Australia

Projects included “Quicktrade” online Share Trading, Online Banking and QA of the bank’s marketing sites. Additional responsibilities involved one on one training with senior bank staff and managing UAT testing. I received an internal “star” award for work on “Quicktrade”.

Sydney, Australia

Systems and Integration Tester on Westpac ‘Davox Replacement Project’ in the Credit Card area of Westpac Banking Corporation. Migration of functionality from the Mainframe to a new Windows based platform.

Dublin

Software Test Engineer for CBT Systems, a software company specialising in interactive courseware. Products ranged from Windows applications to web-based training tools.

B.A Hons, Politics And History, Hons

City And Guilds, It

Activities and Societies: Advanced Programming modules included dBase 3, COBOL, Visual Basic and C++.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Politics / History