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Lyon Area, France

• Site Redevelopment & Migration: Led the redevelopment of legacy websites, including the migration from Symfony to Laravel for enhanced performance and scalability. - https://certificat-voltaire.fr.
• Email Marketing & Automation: Implemented email marketing strategies and automated workflows, such as abandoned cart reminders, to improve user engagement and conversions.
• Analytics Integration: Set up Google Analytics to track user behavior from site entry through to purchase, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Collaboration with Product Owners: Worked closely with Product Owners to bring their ideas to life, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with business goals.
• React & React Native: Trained in React Native and developed user evaluation plugins using React, enhancing user interaction and feedback systems.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Onboarded and mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices, conducting PR reviews, and ensuring code quality.

Lyon Area, France

• Site Maintenance & Development: Managed and developed multiple websites and systems to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Statistics Tool Management: Maintained and enhanced a custom tool for tracking user training progress, providing both admin oversight and real-time data insights.
• E-Commerce Solutions: Developed and maintained WooCommerce and custom payment integrations for WordPress and Symfony platforms, utilizing Stripe, PayPal, and Atos.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversaw domain names and hosting services, acting as the primary liaison with hosting providers to resolve issues and optimize uptime.
• Hosting Environment Optimization: Implemented custom shortcuts and monitoring tools within the hosting environment to improve issue detection, performance, and overall system management.

Lyon Area, France

• Price Comparison Engine / Shopping Guide with Wordpress Plugin / php library- Available in English and French- With ad banners to highlight products- Complete statistics available in a client login- Fully customizable.
• Automated Google Analytics tracker (using Google API)

Dublin

• Management of servers and site uptime/performance monitoring
• Development of procedures for site security
• Implementation of website security strengthening to prevent: - SQL injection - XSS / cross site scripting vulnerabilities - sensitive information disclosure / error message - PHP session exploits
• Organisation of SSL certificates
• Contribution to QA quality assurance processes, testing and release procedures
• Implementation of database and file backup systems

Dublin, Ireland

• Development of WordPress sites, plugins, custom themes and templates
• Creation of sites/page templates in HTML/CSS from Photoshop designs
• Database setup / backup / rollout, monitoring and optimisation
• Further development of in-house SEO tool for rank reporting
• Development of a media management system for the inventory of mp3's / podcasts on itunes for national radio station
• Development and expansion of sites for mobile phone network company, Digicelgroup.com and their 50+ websites and Facebook applications

Dublin, Ireland

• Primary point of contact for three major banks, supporting BankWorld Internet ‘channel-banking’ product
• Fully resolved incidents within agreed SLA times, providing all necessary support and software releases
• Coordination of meetings between clients, technical staff and project management

London, United Kingdom

• Three months call centre work within a large team
• Successfully resolved queries and problems on a daily basis, providing high customer service levels
• Assisted with training of new employees

Londres, Angleterre

• Barclays Capital Graduate IT Training Program in an intensive Investment Banking environment
• Ten months ‘front-line support – Market Data’ with nine team members providing technical support for trading systems
• Exposure to many electronic trading and e-commerce systems - Reuters and Bloomberg included
• Out of hour’s roll outs of application upgrades - through close teamwork
• Directly responsible for successful installation of Spanish ‘debt auction’ system using X.25
• Personally created a File Transfer Program using Visual Basic 6.0. Tool is now an integral piece in the link between Barclays research publishing and Bloomberg’s system

M.Sc. Multimedia, 2.1 Honors

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B.Sc. Computer Science & Software Engineering, 2.1 Honors

Leaving Certificate, English, Maths, French, Geography, Biology, Physics, Irish

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