Michael Mcbride Email & Phone Number

PRESENT ACTIVITIES• Family history research commissions, often aided by autosomal DNA matching, for example using the popular ancestry.com website. Y-DNA matching on familytreedna.com can aid the construction of a male's paternal family tree, helping to identify the unknown father of a male brought up by a single mother. Y-DNA matching can also help to overcome a genealogist's "brick wall" by revealing a paternal male ancestor's surname change, often caused by the remarriage of a widow with children, or the adoption of a foundling, orphan, or child born out of wedlock.• Personal family history and genealogical research for case studies in my books and articles. • History and local history research. Geographical areas of special interest include: > Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland > Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland > Claregalway parish, County Galway, Ireland > Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyneside and "old" County Durham, England• Ongoing investing, involving asset selection and management of family investment portfolios, including self-administered pensions and stockbroker platform dealing accounts.PAST ACTIVITIES• Meeting CEOs of AIM-listed public UK companies to help me prepare company analysis articles for a specialist monthly stock market investments publication.• Real estate investments, which have involved major low carbon refurbishments of neglected old commercial buildings to substantially improve their energy efficiency rating.CURRENT COURSES > City Colleges (Dublin), Professional Diploma in Irish History: Ireland Under the Union (1800 -1922).> Creative Writing Diploma.

Ponteland, Near Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Starting in 1979 as a sole trader, my business progressed from being a one-man band in 1979 to a limited company employing over 70 people 20 years later in 1999. Its associate company Unitech Open Systems, which I co-founded, employed a similar number at offices and subsidiaries in Northumberland, Lancashire, Scotland and Ireland. In 1999 I reached the age of fifty and sold my shareholding to take early retirement through a negotiated company share buy-back agreement. Eight years after I sold out, the company sadly went into administration. It ceased trading and was liquidated.

County Sligo, Ireland

Tara Systems was an Irish Development Authority (IDA) grant-aided company that achieved its initial objectives and was financially sound, but which I decided to close and 'shelve' for a possible future re-launch.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

After trading for over three years, I converted my business to a private limited company and owned 100% of the shares in the new company. I later appointed a self-employed associate as Managing Director to enable me to concentrate on managing a new start-up business in Ireland. I gave him 50% of my shares in NCS. I remained as Chairman.

London Area, United Kingdom

Master Of Science - Msc, Operational Research

Bachelor Of Engineering - Beng (Hons), Chemical Engineering