Can guide in English, French and German. Excellent knowledge of Irish history and culture.

Translation into English from French, German, Irish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish and Dutch. Technical areas include the automotive industry, especially car electronics, medical, legal, tourism and general business texts.

Contribution of place-name data (Irish forms, English/anglicised forms, origins, meanings, notes) collated on names of Irish mountains and other features in the Irish mountain landscape. Contribution of articles on mountain names. Currently involved in co-ordinating recording, formatting and uploading audio files with English and Irish pronunciations of names of mountains and other landscape features.

The project was a new edition of a mountaineering guide-book "Irish Peaks". I was approached for advice on the place-name content of the book. I responded to queries on the Irish forms of various mountain names and their meaning.

Preparing an updated and expanded version of the NI Place-Name Project's website, online at www.placenamesni.org, in readiness for the official launch at Stormont on January 21st 2013. This work, funded by Foras na Gaeilge, involved reviewing, completing and uploading data for place-names in Co. Down, conducting additional research as required, as well as resolving some glitches with the mapping interface. The live website now includes all records from the Project's database, a corpus of over… Show more Preparing an updated and expanded version of the NI Place-Name Project's website, online at www.placenamesni.org, in readiness for the official launch at Stormont on January 21st 2013. This work, funded by Foras na Gaeilge, involved reviewing, completing and uploading data for place-names in Co. Down, conducting additional research as required, as well as resolving some glitches with the mapping interface. The live website now includes all records from the Project's database, a corpus of over 30,000 names. Origins and discussions have been added for around 1500 key names in Co. Down (townlands, towns, parishes, baronies and a selection of important physical features). Show less

Editing and validating the latest version of the database of Northern Ireland place-names (MS Access and Oracle)

Providing Irish forms of postal addresses, especially street and road names. Validation of data in database, ensuring accuracy and consistency of information. Compiling information on place-name elements.

held while studying for Masters degree; , summer only French-speaking walk guide with South-West Walks Ireland, a company based in Tralee which organises walking holidays in Ireland

The objective of this international project, run as part of the EU's Leonardo da Vinci Programme, was to produce training materials suited to the requirements of early school-leavers.

Technical support for AST desktop, laptop and server customers in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland and the UK.

Technical support for IBM desktop customers in North America and Germany.

Building and maintaining databases using the SQL Plus programming language and Oracle software.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSES2000 Completed training course for adult education teachers run by Kerry Education Services.1990 TEFLA Certificate (Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults), RSA/Cambridge.

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