IT Manager
RASAN Software House LLC
Total years of experience :24 years, 9 Months
varied responsibilities due to start up nature of the company. BA, HR, Operations, Security, Management.
Working to upgrade Next Generation Ticketing to an open loop account based system.
Using tools like JAMA and TOGAF with BABOK and Behaviour Driven Design.
Gathering requirements, running workshops, working with key stakeholders and external clients.
Responsible for the gathering and tracking of requirements for the design, implementation and testing of large EU agricultural schemes with annual monetary distribution of €300m.
Handling key stakeholders, developers, testers and business users.
Tecnologies: Cubumer, Gherkin, UML in a Java/Oracle (12c) Environment. Waterfall, SDLC. ISO.
Working in an Agile Scrum Format on a Big Data Project. Gathering Requirements from Product Owner and translating to technical requirements for development teams. JIRA, Rally, Scrum, Agile. Creating User Acceptance Criteria. Sprint Refinement. Ensuring On Time Delivery and Customer Satisfaction. Assisting with Pre Sales Interactions.
Technologies in use, Amazon AWS, HDFS, Hadoop, Driven, Cascading.
Still Currently in this role
Responsible for mission critical systems, including: Online statement system & mobile application. Live Equities and Forex price feeds. CRM system. Migration from Oracle Forms 10g to 11g. Ascertaining System Requirements & documenting them. Liaising with Business Users & Stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met. Documenting Test Plans & Project Plans. Technologies used, Oracle PL/SQL, UML, XML, PHP, CSS, Core Java
2009 - 2010
SafeCom Ltd. Mount Elliot, New Ross, Wexford
Chief Technology Officer, responsibilities varied. Design, development of CRM system using Linux, Apache, PL/SQL, Oracle XE MySQL & Java. iPhone Application Development. Day to day hardware/software maintenance. Technological strategy formation. Implementing Quality Control and process improvement paradigms. Business & Data Analysis.
OSS-RC Management System using J2EE, Eclipse, PDM, Sybase, Junit, Clear Case on UNIX and Windows Vista, using Agile Processes. Prepaid Telecoms Platform. C, Sybase, pro* C, Java, SVN, JTAF, USSD and Data Access Objects on UNIX and Windows 2000.
2006 - 2007
Aepona. Interpoint Building, York St., Belfast (www.aepona.com)
Software Engineer & Installation and Commissioning Engineer for Aepona's Parlay Platform, Pre Installation Analyses, Technical Pre Sales, Hardware and Software Installation Configuration and end to end Testing in Live Mobile Networks. Involved extensive foreign travel in a client-facing role. Solaris, C7, Oracle 10g with RAC, Sun Cluster, C, Java, PL/SQL.
2003 - 2006
Elavon, IDA Industrial Estate, Ballynattin, Arklow.
Business Analyst Developer / Team Leader. Designing, Implementing and testing of all aspects of Oracle and UNIX systems for credit card processing. Using Oracle 10g Forms, PL/SQL, Reports on Unix and Linux platforms. Responsibilities: - Gathering Requirements from Business Users. Writing Functional & Technical Specifications. Writing Unit Test Plans. Reviewing Documentation. Developing Forms, Reports, PL/SQL procedures, triggers, extract transform and load jobs, file loads and extractions using UTL_FILE and sqlloader. Implemented large scale portfolio migrations from companies that were acquired by Elavon. Some with up to 70, 000 subscribers.
Designed and Programmed the Operations & Maintenance module for signalling traffic for a Multi Media Messaging platform using C++, Java, PL/SQL, TCP/IP, C7 and Oracle on Linux.
2002 - 2003
Northbrook Technology. Lanyon Place, Belfast (www.northbrooktechnology.com) . Software Engineer. Data Warehousing/Mining and Enterprise Data Migration. Unix, Oracle, PL/SQL, DB2, COBOL. Travel to USA involved.
Telecommunications Software Engineer. C, C++, Java, PL/SQL, CORBA. Performed several in house project audits. Installation and Commissioning Engineer for Aeponas Parlay Platform, Pre Installation Analyses, Hardware and Software Installation Configuration and end to end Testing in Live Mobile Networks. Involved extensive foreign travel in a client-facing role. Solaris, C7, Java, CORBA, C++, PL/SQL.
2000- 2002 See AePONA 2006
Jun 1998 - August 1999 (Work Experience for University Sandwich Course)
Ericsson Infotech AB. Karlstad, Sweden (www.ericsson.com/signaling)
Implemented and tested the Control program for C7 solution for GPRS platform using C++ on Solaris and VxWorks.
Internship with Ericsson InfoTech, Karlstad, Sweden. Designed and developed the SS7 control program for their first 3G GPRS WPP platform.
1992-1993 ATC Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 City & Guilds Certificate 425 in Application Programming Result achieved
1986 -1991 Leaving Certificate, FCJ Bunclody, Co.Wexford
