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Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area

Developing solutions portfolio and managing B2B business and partnerships in Germany, Benelux, France, Switzerland, Nordics, Italy, Spain for Zembro's range of wearable care solutions, connected to the SafeTrx track and trace platform.

Grenoble Area, France

Founder of Alpbac, performing business development, market research, product management, and development of sales and marketing materials for multiple clients.Projects: Pathfinding for Irish energy companies on behalf of Enterprise Ireland, as consultant in Auvergne Rhone Alpes region of France. Introducing smart energy, smartgrid, and biomass and heating suppliers to large French distributors and facilitating strategic partnerships.Successful negotiation and sale of customised solutions for major national and multinational clients in new markets (energy assets, logistics, vehicle tracking and behaviour).2016 - 2017: Market research for multiple clients, including Gaelectric (Ireland, renewables producer) and HealthyRoad (Portugal, face-recognition software for autonomous driving). Wrote in-depth custom report on French renewables sector and electric vehicle charging sector.2014-2016: Visiting lecturer at Polytech Engineering College of the University of Grenoble-Alpes.2011: Specified Smartgrid management communications for AtoS WorldGrid, resulting in optimal and future-proof management comms based on IP and mobile telecoms access.Contributed business development and project scoping to International Energy Research Centre (IERC) in Ireland, identifying and evaluating energy project partners during setup phase.Edited and coordinated writing of FP7 IP proposal for Tyndall National Institute in Ireland, managing contributions from 15 partners.2008: Developed pipeline of French business opportunities, scoped, researched and wrote in-depth reports on French wind energy sector, identifying financial models, major and minor players, government policy and planning issues, on behalf of Airtricity (SSE) and for Island Renewable Energy.

Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area

Developing B2B business in France, Benelux, Switzerland, Italy, Spain for 8West's SafeTrx wearable solution for remote patient management and elderly care, for isolated workers, and for maritime rescue.

Grenoble Area, France

Developing business via direct sales and partner development in IoT, energy, renewables, fuel, LPG and tank monitoring in France and surrounding countries. Partnership development with LoRa Network Operators including Objenious (Bouygues Telecom), Swisscom, Proxiumus, and NB-IoT operators. Applications include liquid level monitoring, asset tracking, operational efficiencies.

Grenoble Area, France

Launched and managed European business for US-based Gridtest Systems (founding member), developed direct and reseller channels for world’s first Electric Vehicle emulator, testing grid-connected charging stations. Promoted product and built customer base among equipment suppliers (GE, Hager), European utilities (EDF, ESB), EV OEMs (BMW), and national-level R&D labs (JRC). Specified European product features for ongoing development, based on market feedback from BMW, Renault, Volkswagen, RWE, Vattenfall, Kevag, British Gas, SSE, Enel, EDF, ESB. Represented Gridtest at IEC Standards development.

Grenoble Area, France

Developed solar photovoltaic projects in the Rhone-Alps region of France, identifying sites, negotiating leases and managing planning process for clients including Nature Energies Photovoltaique, Paris.

Grenoble Area, France

Founder and project director of Sulake, provider of multi-party wireless and payment services to Musgrave retail chain in Ireland.Project managed integration of third-party products and outsourcing of product development for mobile payments solutions and applications.

Grenoble Area, France

Planned and implemented partnerships and global business channel worth €10 million into mobile operators in Asia, Europe and Caribbean, through alliances with leading global systems integrators (Logica) and equipment vendors (HP).

London, United Kingdom

Third member of early-stage start-up, responsible for all initial commercial and marketing strategy and execution, selling wireless directory, search and content management service to mobile operators.

Dublin, Ireland

Telecoms consultant and writer specialising in telecommunications and wireless data, for Hardiman Telecommunications, Telecoms consultancy, Dublin, The International Herald Tribune, International daily newspaper, Paris, The Irish Times, Irish daily newspaper renowned for business and technology reporting, and professional monthly publications of EMAP Publications, London. Software team leader and senior software engineer for AT&T (now Alcatel-Lucent), Retix (now Vertel), and Euristix (now Marconi).

Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Designed syllabus and developed final-year network-management and datacomms courses for BSc Computer Science course at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, including presentations to national networking conferences and implementing first Internet access in the country.

Cork, Ireland

Senior software engineer architecting and developing comms stack for cellular network operations and maintenance centre (OMC).

London, United Kingdom

Communications engineer. Implemented and managed telecoms and datacomms networks.

Master’S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronic Engineering