Guest lecturing on various aspects of product strategy for Diploma and Masters students.

As a mentor on the Startup Boost Accelerator programme I offer coaching on approaches for early stage product development. Running customer and product discovery, testing, strategy coaching and iterating to product market fit.

In Therapie I'm responsible for building a new product development group, overseeing Product, design, development and data. We are building a technology driven company that's product led in how we power the growth in the business. This covers everything from data driven insights to consumer experiences and everything in between. It's a truly unique opportunity and we're hiring :-)

Director of product for industry leading appointment and booking software

I am also Co-Founder of EasyDocs.ie which fixes the problem small businesses have of "What paperwork am I supposed to have?" by not only figuring out what you're supposed to have but instantly generating every form or document you need.

Overseeing Product strategy and direction for Vantage, the flagship product of The Now Factory

Working as a software engineer in product development of The Now Factory's Active Subscriber Intelligence software suite.Focused on developing the back end Java code for the Vantage Analytics product I was involved in new feature development and design of features such as an alarming engine and large data and chart exports.Working mainly with technologies such as:* EJB* Hibernate* SVN, Maven* JUnit* JSON* MDBIn an agile enviroment, this also involved supporting operational and support teams as well as occasional client site visits supporting acceptance testing. Working with telecoms data networks across multiple interfaces such as:* GN* GB* IuPS* LTE S1mme I was also involved in the function specifications which involved experience in telecoms networks operations from a protocol, traffic analysis and connection analysis point of view.

Technical consultant for professional services projects in telco markets. Time spent split between development work and client facing professional services projects including: * Core Java develpment* GWT* Liferay* Hibernate * Velocity* xStream* XSD, XML validation and manipulation* Ant, Maven, CVS, Dimensions, SVN, JUnit* Conducting client facing training workshops.* Requirments gathering andtechnical survey for upgrade projects and supporting UAT on client sites.* Customer change requests.* Agile development

Supporting large software systems (mostly Java based).Time spent with 50% Software development working with:* Java core development * Hibernate, * GWT framework* Velocity.* Ant, Maven, CVS, Dimensions, SVN, JUnit* Providing development support for system testing phaseThe other 50% time spent on Support and maintenance * Supporting Unix, Linux, windows, HP-UX operating systems, bash scripting.* Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g, SQL, PL/SQL* Low level file operations with Binary, ASCII, ASN1 etc.* Maintaining older versions of products on client with bug fixes and code maintenance.

Supporting large scale financial systems,Identifying and resolving bugs or performance issues in a Java base system, extensive testing, trouble shooting on Oracle SQL, PL/SQL and Unix based file systems.