Lead 70 people across multiple groups driving high performance and quality, through clear direction, enabling autonomy and open communication. Structured team by Head of Engineering, Head of Business Transformation and Head of Operations operating in a highly regulated environment. Drove brand engagement and learning through public speaking including Web Summit Money Conf, AWS Summit, Harvey Nash CIO and more.Engineering--Built best in class engineering function through three main tracks of People, Process and Technology.PeopleDesigned and built a hiring process which drove applicant engagement and demand. Resulted in ‘easy to see / hard to enter’ engineering brandGrew Engineering group from ground up to a team of more than 20 engineersCo-designed the Product / Engineering cross functional team model creating 5 teams with high levels of autonomy and engagementProcessEnsured agile methodologies in use across teams including Kanban and Scrum models, resulting in faster iterations and more predictable deliveries and qualityOperated via continuous deployment model resulting in multiple production deployments per day with zero downtimeTechnologyLead team to design distributed hybrid architecture across data centre and AWSPromoted and ingrained attitude of ‘automate everything’ throughout entire platform, delivered via technologies such as Chef, Vagrant, Docker and ConsulAchieved near five 9s platform availability over 3 years while processing over €4bn in transactions--Operations--Defined new operational leadership model enabling improved performance and communication between Operations, Transformation and EngineeringIdentified and monitored KPIs across Customer Service, AML and Payments driving improved performanceApplied “automate everything” approach to Operations and ingrained attitude within teamCreated new operational information flow between teams analogous to engineering systems monitoring--

scrazzl was a data analytics company which built a platform capable of automatically analysing millions of scientific publications with the aim of extracting and linking identified entities within. A large scale distributed engine enabled the analysis with an accuracy score of >90%. The linked data was then exposed through an online platform with two core product strategies. The first was selling subscriptions to the analytics engine powering the platform and secondly, exposing information about the extracted entities to benefit scientists in their research, via a consumer product.* Involved in multiple rounds of fundraising and corresponding due diligence * Built a team of engineers locally and offshore* Responsible for platform architecture and technical roadmap* Created AWS based large scale semantic analysis engine for entity extraction* Gearman-like distributed architecture for fast large-scale analysis

Web Reservations International are the owners of hostelworld.com. I was a lead engineer working on various platforms and left when the company sold for $300m. * Introduced software design patterns and architectural best practices to areas including overall site development, deployment, AJAX communications and session management * Lead security efforts and carried out application vulnerability testing as part of PCI compliance. * Lead multiple teams including mobile where we delivered the HostelWorld iPhone application which reached the top 10 in the download charts and was featured on Apple adverts. * Developed award winning AJAX applications. * Lead boo.com team, focusing on usability and performance.

Worked on IBM Ireland’s first Speed Team. The idea being a team of 5 post grads would be given 6 months to deliver a core component of IBM Lotus Workplace with the aim of testing more agile processes within IBM. The Speed Team was a success. * J2EE software engineer working on IBM Lotus Workplace 2.0/2.5/3.0. * Designed/implemented security model for flagship component within Workplace. * Implemented session EJBs for same component. * Presented work at conference in New York. * Developed workflow component for WebSphere Portal Server.

While in IBM, I was given a year out to travel while my job was secure, and went to Australia where I worked with an ISP called Nexon. Hired initially to work on a CMS, I ended up creating an automatically updating online store for them. * Custom PHP Joomla module development * Joomla PHP core code rewrites * Online store with automated updates using PHP and Java.