Mentor to web3 companies in the Techstars accelerator. Covering broad range of industries: gaming, finance, disaster recovery, and application in the metaverse.

Advisor to this exciting venture focused on financial services inclusivity, sustainability, and digital money.

Mentoring fintech startups at the Future of Finance accelerator, currently with ABN Ambro, previously with Barclays. Broad range of firms, from broadening inclusion, to digital assets, ESG, AI/ML. Payments, Banking, and Markets coverage.

Key Responsibilities: - define approach, architecture and technology selection for a common approach to mobilizing workforce applications - consulting and engagement with technical project teams producing Mobile Applications for their business units - mobile architectures for thin client (web based) as well as native clients (iOS, Blackberry, Android) - technology evaluation and standardization - recruitment - senior delivery manager for our compliance and governance function for mobile architecture reviews, we need to ensure that all mobile offerings have their architecture and security reviewed prior to release for our B2C and B2E offerings.

Key achievements: - IDA Innovation Grant. primary technical contributor to successful award of R&D grant to mobile collections. Grant value exceeded $1 Million. Contribution included written submission, presentation package and face-to-face assessment session with IDA - Winner Overall Most Innovative Award, CitiDirect BE Mobile (Barlow Research, Monarch Award), Winner Innovation in Cash & Treasury Technology Award from The Banker. Architect for product, contributed to interaction design, integration strategy, architecture and technology stack. bit.ly/KJBL3g and bit.ly/MDCpBj and yhoo.it/MeyGXX - Lead Dublin portion of upstart programme. Upstart is a programme to engage with the post-graduate engineering programmes of universities. In 2011-12 we ran the programme with QUB and TCD. Also gave presentations on architecture, mobile technology trends, and lead workshops. - Introduced Restful architecture to group; - Lead technical information sessions, contributions from internal and external people, covering a breath of emerging trends and current best practice. Cloud computing, ALM tooling and process, agile, modularity and software integration patterns and approaches. - Recruitment. Lead recruitment for a number of positions on the team: developer manager, architect, technical lead, programmers, business analyst, testers. Positions were for permanent and contract. My role included setting the job specification, candidate shortlisting, pre-screening, face-to-face interviewing.• Pre-sales and partner collaboration projects, the output being architecture documents and presentations;• Projects:digital money, mobile wallet; mobilizing internal content, targeting thin client; mobile technologies (SMS, mobile internet) for receivables business flows.• Architectures for distributed processing of payments..• Technology:J2E,Camel,CXF,JMS,Spring, Hibernate,JPA,ASP.net MVC3,JQuery, ISO 8583, HTML/HTML5,Geronimo&WAS.Various SMS toolkits, asymmetric encryption.

Worked with CTO office to define integration patterns with cloud computing, providing a hybrid application environment, external cloud as well as internal datacenter/cloud hosted applications. Required understanding of cloud architectures, integration patterns, SOA and middleware.

• Full lifecycle consulting experience, including tender response, pitching, due diligence, and delivery; Working directly with a number of clients, with an international base, and with their geographically dispersed offices• Verticals: capital markets and finance, telecoms, government and civil service, and education;• Horizontal focus: scalable software systems, information security and embedded systems;• Recognised as a trusted advisor for our clients• Architect, advise and develop new enterprise application framework by effectively employing Java frameworks in their stock trading systems; goal:process stock trades much faster with low latency. • Architect enhanced continuous integration platform and an application framework to measure performance, stress and load scalability testing. This was gap in their development process that I identified; worked with them to build and incorporate this in all their projects adopting the new trading system framework • Modernize build practices• Conduct design and code reviews.• Conduct performance tests of core software.• Develop examples of how to use framework• Mentor development team to use Agile methods to increase software reliability and delivery predictability• Successfully integrated their next-generation applications:NY, London, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong.

As part of Consulting and IntegrationI Ireland, I have responsibilities to the practice and to clients that I am working with. Some of my responsibilities for HP include:• Bid qualification, response writing. • Presentations to customers and partners. • Discussions with customers. • Mentoring of junior members of team.Also, I am contributor to various technical communities in HP, and currently am active with its Agile Special Interest Group.Other engagements have included security related work; also workedwith a telecommunications client (Vodafone). Technologies included,J2EE, java, C#, ASP.net.

• Lead the design and development of this project to successful delivery• Attained preferred vendor status, displacing an established vendor;• Customer Facing skills and Problem solving ability recognized by Senior Management and Customers;• Mentored development team on Engineering practices• Introduced system and unit testing to daily build process

[Lead Engineer] for product with 4500+ customers.• Setup Source Code Management usage and policies for team • Mentor and Coach for good Engineering practices• XP (eXtreme Programming) Rollout; Gave presentation of rollout at Ireland XPSig.[SOAP-CORBA Bridge]. • Delivery of World's first XML SOAP-CORBA bridge • Selected by CTO for this project• Work commended by CEO.[Performance Drive]. • Within 3 months lead a team to produce a 300%+ gain in performance• Stability of Orbix also improved• Selected by CTO for this project• Work commended by CEO[Realtime Product].• Designed and implemented IIOP support in the realtime product• Provided support to customers• Developed predictable memory management library, used in comms layer for Tx and Rx in Message Buffers• Promoted to technical lead and lead engineer on this high profile project. [General] • Contributed to company wide policies for Source Code Control and Management

Worked on CRM product. Required database skills (Oracle and DB/2 in OS/2 and Netware environments).

Part of the Test team for a MS-Windows based workflow product. Worked in Windows 3.1 and OS/2 PM 2.0

* Summer job as contract programmer. * Developed an X.400 auto-responder in ANSI C. * Behaved like an FTP server with the instructions coming through an email, additionally the deposited files would be emailed to the members of the subscribed group.