Keith Mcdonnell Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Ireland

Dublin Airport Fire Station

• Fire-fighting using full range of appropriate equipment• Administering first aid & assisting in the evacuation of people in life-threatening situations• Protecting property endangered by fires• Protecting the environment (as necessary) in an emergency situation• Participating in training drills for fire control and rescue work• Testing and maintaining fire service vehicles, and associated equipment• Conducting fire safety inspections and inspecting fire safety systems• Observing aircraft movements on the manoeuvring area• Compliance with IAA and EASA monitoring and auditing standards• Conducting airfield inspections• Conducting friction monitoring and testing• Responding to road traffic collisions as required• Responding to ATC requests• Maintaining standards of personal fitness and competency in role

Waterford City Fire Station

• To save life and preserve endangered life• Protection of property from damage by fire and from firefighting measures• To render humanitarian services• To inform and educate the community to improve awareness of safetyDuring my time with Waterford Fire Service, my roles and responsibilities were to carry out any task asked of me, including saving saveable life and property, providing humanitarian aid and to educate the community in areas of fire safety. My tasks vary from fire fighting, road traffic collisions, river rescues and much more, while also ensuring maintenance of our equipment. I enjoyed the fact that it was a dynamic job with an emphasis on teamwork and continuous learning, I like to learn and utilize new skills as often as possible and look forward to learning much more in my career with the fire service.

Waterford, Ireland

• Designing and planning the network• Setting up the network• Maintaining the network• Expanding the network• Adding new host machines to the network• Administering network security and services• Troubleshooting network and client computer problemsI was employed as network administrator and security specialist and was responsible for the network infrastructure, telephony systems and server environments as well as desktop equipment for over 400 staff in Ireland. System security was of huge importance due to the sensitive nature of the personal information held, so professionalism was a priority, as well as staying up to date with continuous training. While I was employed in the Waterford office I was regularly sent to the UK office to assist with their networking needs. One aspect I was particularly proud of was my involvement in disaster recovery (business continuity planning) exercises, similar to a major incident management type of situation we would simulate a major outage in one of our offices and within a few hours have the staff back online from an offsite temporary office in either Cork or Dublin, my team was in charge of ensuring all telephony, networking and tech equipment was configured correctly to enable staff to logon remotely and continue working as if nothing had changed. I was sent to run the first ever disaster recovery exercise in the UK head office and spent a week there coordinating with teams in sites across the UK as well as the US and Canada, the end result being a successful team exercise.

Waterford, Ireland

While employed with Honeywell, my job included working on a furnace melting steel to be poured into the moulds for creating turbine wheels for Turbo’s. I also worked as a hand finish operator, making sure the product is free of any faults before it is shipped to the customer, there was a very big emphasis on quality at this workstation. Unfortunately Honeywell decided to lay off staff in 2005. I enjoyed working there and was sad to hear the news of being let go. I did get called back for a full time contract in 2006 however I had accepted a job with Sun Life Financial at this time so declined the offer.

Waterford, Ireland

Initially I had applied For a Material handler position advertised however in my interview I was informed that this position had already been filled on the shift I wanted, and was told that my previous experience would qualify me for a position as a machine operator, I accepted this offer and worked there for nearly two years on the permanent nights shift at the time I left I was the most experienced operator on my line’s shift, assisting in the training of many of my immediate work-mates and was Fully cross-trained across the whole production line. Nypro began shutting down their Waterford plant in May 2004

Waterford, Ireland

After completing a six month Internet tech support course in Fás Baldoyle, Dublin. I was employed as an Internet support Technician in the Waterford AOL call centre. I worked there for two years and gained some very valuable experience while working there. During my time with AOL I was called upon on numerous occasions and asked for my opinion on changes the management were thinking of making or any feedback I could provide to better the procedures we used on the job, to improve productivity . I also carried out a very large amount of “call-backs” this is where a tech rep on the floor could not solve a problem, it would be escalated to me as a second level agent to call the member back and work the problem with them.

Dublin, Ireland

Initially I was employed for a position in the goods inwards department of the warehouse, however after four weeks I was promoted to order picker and aisle controller. This meant that I was responsible for all the customer orders in my area and all the stock in my sector, which was a third of the stock in the warehouse. I carried out these tasks flawlessly and in the deadlines set for the tasks. I left the company in September 1999 to start an Internet Technical support course with Fás, however to support myself financially I returned to work for the company on a part-time basis.

Dublin, Ireland

I was employed part-time and carried out a wide variety of duties. These included assisting in the repair depot and warehouse. I enjoyed working in the repair depot as I have an aptitude for this type of work. I was offered and accepted full time employment with GTECH from August 1997. My most recent project was a retrofit project that involved the upgrading and maintenance of all the Lottery equipment in Ireland.

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