Experience

Inmarsat

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director, Maritime Platforms Engineering

  • Mar 2021 - Present

• Director Product Engineering

  • Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

• Manager, Software Platforms and Solutions

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2018

  Lead a team responsible for the system architecture, development and integration of our service delivery platform and software based solutions.

• OSS Solutions Designer

  • Feb 2014 - Sep 2015

  A continuation of my OSS Architect's role but with 100% focus on the delivery of our Service Delivery Platform to support Global Xpress.I retained my roles as API SME, and iDirect SME but also led on all aspects involved in the sale and provisioning of services via the SDP. This includes the provisioning of the terminals, the IP configuration of the terminals, and the service provisioned on the terminals. I'm also the stream lead for testing the packages sold, including VoIP, data services and content pre-positioning. Show less



Inmarsat

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• OSS Architect

  • Aug 2012 - Jan 2013

  Developed OSS roadmap. This involved having a working knowledge of all NMS software used by company, including; Dataminer, HP NNM, Cacti, Nagios, Uptime, Solarwinds, Satmanage.Managed in-house OSS delivery. This involved gathering requirements, designing solutions and project managing the delivery.3rd Party NMS API subject matter expert. This involved providing support to all 3rd party contractors who wished to use the NMS API.Fulfilment engineering lead. This involved providing support to contractor on workings of iDirect HUB and how the services are to be sold to customers.Assurance lead. This involved managing requirements and expectation of product manager, ensuring contractor compliance and providing solutions. Show less

• Senior OSS Developer

  • Oct 1999 - Aug 2012

  Responsible for design and development of in-house OSS solution. The in-house solution involves writing probe processes which gather information from the network nodes. It also involves modelling the network inside a Gensym G2 system and finally presenting the information to operations in the form of mimic displays, alarms and graphs. The key technologies include; Java, Gensym G2 and SNMP.

• Core Network Engineer

  • 2003 - 2005

  Provided 3rd level support of packet switched core network nodes, including GGSN and SGSN.Supported 3rd part core network OSS system.Managed operations support contract with 3rd party contractor.Managed node upgrades including HLR.Managed creation of combined GSN node.



Oracle

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 1996 - Sep 1999

  I worked initially on porting Oracle Forms from Unix BSD to OS/2. After the demise of OS/2 I moved to developing automated test tools for Oracle database applicatons in Java on Solaris. I worked initially on porting Oracle Forms from Unix BSD to OS/2. After the demise of OS/2 I moved to developing automated test tools for Oracle database applicatons in Java on Solaris.



System Dynamics

• Ireland
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Engineer

  • Aug 1995 - Nov 1996

  I joined as a graduate engineer and initially developed banking software solutions in Cobol before moving on to financial systems using Informix 4GL I joined as a graduate engineer and initially developed banking software solutions in Cobol before moving on to financial systems using Informix 4GL