- Leading multiple products teams in the Operations / check-in stream- Contributing and influencing the technical and business roadmap- Providing technical guidance and mentorship to engineers- Driving our cloud migration to AWS resulting in the decommissioning of a multitude of servers in our data centre as well as retiring a 15 year old legacy IBM Broker stack- Ensuring a high quality of development standards and best practices- Co-ordinate and lead our graduate programme since 2021 including technical onboarding

Working in the Digital & Mobile department of Aer Lingus, my role as team lead encompasses a wide variety of responsibilities in a busy and challenging environment.Our team develops and maintains the backend services for aerlingus.com, Android & iOS mobile apps, B2B and integration with numerous 3rd parties.I lead a team of developers, tech leads and automation engineers (onshore and offshore).While remaining close to the code and often assist with a bug fix or code review I don't get to spend too much time coding. My focus is the performance and well-being of the team, ensuring they can focus on delivery and so need to be available to help and unblock with whatever issue might arise. Ensuring standards are maintained, reducing technical debt and helping to drive key initiatives in digital transformation space is another important aspect of my role.There is a sizeable portion of the code developed on legacy technologies. The planning and execution to migrate the legacy services to Spring Boot on AWS has been a high priority for me since joining the team.

Client facing role on site full time in HSE, Primary Care Reimbursement Service (www.pcrs.ie)Transitioned to this role as the development team expanded.Working on projects from concept to delivery and support is one of the main benefits. I work closely with the client (various business units & senior management) in the PCRS and then bring it all back to the development team to plan and execute the tasks for numerous projects.I'm confident in my ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders and also to lead and motivate a team. Over the years I've gained considerable knowledge in the different areas of the business and with a strong technical background am very much involved in the direction and process within the development team.Involved in the hiring process for web development team.Work with a colleague from Quest as key contact to ensure ISO 9001:2015 complianceWhile working with different teams from development it's mainly been web development where I am focused.Just a few of the projects I've lead and successfully delievered include- Free GP Care (http://www.gpvisitcard.ie/)- Medical Card - Discretionary system for medical officers integrated with overall application process- HL7 integration with GP vendor software- Claiming and payments system for Influenza records- Upgrade to SHA2 infrastructure including rollout of 2 factor authenticationThe software developed and rolled out is used by a wide audience from primary care contractors to hospitals to the general public.Always keen to use the best tools and technologies.Spend a lot of time in JIRA ensuring my team have enough workload and tasks are prioritised. I'm a big advocate of these tools and was key in introducing them in PCRS when I started into project management.

Design, coding and testing a wide variety of web applications for public, primary care contractors and internal PCRS staff** Stack **Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring-WS, jQuery, Oracle 11g, Weblogic, PL/SQL, Jenkins, MavenResponsible for PKI infrastructure

Amdocs have a huge platform in the Telco space. I worked mainly on a the Accounts Receivable module.The process in Amdocs was fairly well settled when I joined. During the latter part of my time there we transitioned to Agile. That was a valuable learning experience. High calibre of developers on the team working to build new functionality and improve the codebase. Tech stack was Java backend for web and complex multithreaded batch jobs for high volume payment processes. Learned a lot about Oracle and Weblogic during my time.Finished in Amdocs when the development operation in Eastpoint were made redundant after buyout of Changing Worlds.

Thanks to some great mentors I quickly got to grips with many parts of the development lifecycle.I was fixing bugs and developing new functionality after a few weeks. The product was an eProcurement platform used by clients such as Tesco and UK Passport servce.All web based and tech stack was Java using various frameworks such as Struts. Apps deployed on Weblogic all feeding into a sizeable Oracle database. Perforce was the SCM of choice with Maven and Ant the build tools.I could write all day about my time at this company and it was only a year. My only regret was not being able to work there in the earlier years!I moved on after the company was bought by AMT