Principal Consultant

• Sep 2023 - Present

Founding Engineering Lead

• Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

Director, Head of Engineering EMEA & Site Lead

• Jan 2020 - Oct 2022

Patreon's first hire in Dublin, where I was responsible for establishing Patreon's Engineering presence and leading a number of teams across a range of domains. - Initially leading all recruitment efforts for engineering in Dublin, before later sourcing and hiring a dedicated recruiter - Taking advantage of Patreon's second engineering hub to advocate for and introduce a follow the sun on-call model - Leading engineering for our Dublin based Payments, Tax, Compliance and Content Moderation teams Show less

Manager, Software Development

• Oct 2016 - Dec 2019

- Mentoring other Development Managers and Engineers of all levels. - Scaling and growing the development teams building the Learning product. - Continually looking for tweaks and improvements to existing processes. - Participating in and leading several cross department and company initiatives. - Speaking at and organising Workday App Dev Open Houses (external meet-ups) - Representing Workday at recruitment and career fairs. - Site Lead for the “Green Team”, a company-wide sustainability initiative, organising and facilitating a number of on-site and off-site events. Show less

Associate Manager, Software Development

• Oct 2015 - Sep 2016

Responsible for building out a new product area in Dublin. Grew the team from its first engineering hire to three fully functioning and high performing teams - 2 scrum teams and 1 kanban team. Led all aspects from candidate screening, recruitment and hiring to onboarding, training and career growth for a group of 12 engineers. Introduced and evangelised Agile best practices within the new teams. Educated and empowered the teams to make the best decisions to suit their own specific needs as an autonomous team to do their best work.Worked with Product Management and remote development management peer group to coordinate and plan feature releases and manage BAU product quality.Participated in and leading several cross department and company initiatives.Represented Workday at recruitment and career fairs.Site Lead for the “Green Team”, a company-wide sustainability initiative, organising and facilitating a number of on-site and off-site events. Show less

Engineering Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer / Scrum Master

• Jun 2012 - Oct 2015

Managed and helped deliver the transformation process and knowledge transfer between development teams split between London, Dublin and Kiev as Wonga wound down and ceased operations in Dublin. As Scrum Master, worked closely with the Product Owner and development team to champion agile best practices to increase team performance and predictability. Led the design and development of a tool to identify and redress millions of loans in varying states of arrears and repayments (using a nice combination of decorator and strategy patterns) to meet an urgent regulatory requirement. Developed and maintained a number of message based windows services which formed a loan and payments system that integrated with multiple third parties. Worked closely with different business units to design and develop new products for new markets, iterating bi-weekly with feature demos and working towards MVPs. Show less

Senior Software Engineer

• Jun 2011 - Jun 2012

Led the redesign and iterative refactoring of a large legacy application for a multi-national telecoms client. Encouraged team to use OO and design best practices, and also to refactor to unit tests. Involved in the continued maintenance and enhancement of a number of existing web applications. Championed more engagement within the wider dev group to begin lunch and learn sessions, technical book-clubs, more code re-use, unit testing, continuous integration. Led the redesign and iterative refactoring of a large legacy application for a multi-national telecoms client. Encouraged team to use OO and design best practices, and also to refactor to unit tests. Involved in the continued maintenance and enhancement of a number of existing web applications. Championed more engagement within the wider dev group to begin lunch and learn sessions, technical book-clubs, more code re-use, unit testing, continuous integration.

Senior Analyst Developer

• May 2008 - Jun 2011

Lead developer on a high-profile financial application for a very important external client (foreign government body) with aggressive timelines. Liaised closely with the client during all stages of requirements gathering and development, including site visits to meet with different stakeholders and prospective users. Project was delivered ahead of schedule, earning me an internal Citi award. Worked closely with Internal Compliance and Governance teams to design and develop (in ASP.NET and SIlverlight) a bespoke application to help users speedily review millions of historic payments and flag for remediation where necessary. Show less

Senior Software Developer

• Feb 2007 - May 2008

Lead developer on large entertainment website, written in C# using ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, SQL Server 2005 and extensive T-SQL stored procedures. Also helped maintain and support a number of existing web applications. Lead developer on large entertainment website, written in C# using ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, SQL Server 2005 and extensive T-SQL stored procedures. Also helped maintain and support a number of existing web applications.

Software Developer

• Dec 2003 - Feb 2007

Developed and supported numerous web-based ecommerce applications, primarily in C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, HTML and JavaScript. Involved in the entire life cycle of large scale, international projects, from requirements gathering and analysis, through to development and unit and system test and onto production. Led the design and development of a data-intensive Management Reporting System and also an Online Ordering / Order Fulfilment / Credit Checking System. Travelled on a number of occasions to be present on site for different clients during go-lives or significant product roll-outs. Show less

Computer Programming Lecturer

• Oct 2001 - Jun 2002

Taught C++ and Java computer programming to over 100 second year students. Was also responsible for setting and correcting assignments and exams. Taught C++ and Java computer programming to over 100 second year students. Was also responsible for setting and correcting assignments and exams.