Martello

I am currently working as a Senior Researcher with the renowned Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG), a research division of Waterford Institute of Technology, based in the sunny South East of Ireland. There, I contribute in the research and commercialisation of projects in areas such as Cloud Computing, IPTV, RSS Feed Aggregation, GPS, Web 2.0, Widgets and Mobile Internet.

I am also the Operations Manager for FeedHenry - a start-up company created by TSSG/WIT that provides cloud solutions for building and deploying cross-platform business and telecoms apps that will run natively on all smartphones, social media sites and browser start-pages from a single code base.

Solaris is my current operating system of choice and I have been known to confess to more than a passing admiration for any type of scripting language, with Tcl/Tk, Python, Perl, Bash and Ruby being some of my current favourites.

I completed my Masters Degree in Communications Software at Waterford Institute of Technology in 2008. The title of my dissertation was “The reification of Microworlds using Greenfoot and LEGO MINDSTORMS“. It was an exploration of how various introductory computing learning environments could be enhanced through the use of robotics. My dissertation also received a special award from WIT entitled, “Dissertation with best commercial potential”.