Thursday, 29 July 2010
Howdy. Welcome to my site - it's a bit of space reserved on the Internet to talk about me. I suppose it's really the only placearound where I can air my thoughts!
Busy year so far, I have trained hard for past few months and have managed to summit Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa (5,895m). Click the image to open small gallery.
Whilst here you can find out about ColdFusion, SQL Server, Search Engine Optimisation, Corporate Intranets, Time Management Software, Content Management Systems, Performance Monitoring (server) and Web Traffic Analysis.
I am currently working as an IT Manager for Carzone.ie one of Irelands most popular motoring websites.
Technical
- ColdFusion, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server, DNS, IIS, Mailer Daemon, MS Office, Oracle, Hitbox Web Analytics, Webtrends Analytics, Axosoft OnTime (project management tool).
Applications
- http://www.carzone.ie
Irelands premier used car website; both in terms of numbers of vehicles listed and web page views. - http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/
This multi-lingual content managed website was developed for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EU funded Organisation). This website built in ColdFusion on a Linux server with Oracle RDBMS. Based in Portugal I managed the project from both Dublin & Lisbon with a team of software developers and office administrators. - http://www.carzone.ie/sausage/admin/login/
Password protected control panel to allow users retrieve web leads, used car statistics & nominate featured vehicles for promotions. - http://www.hyundai.ie/contentv3/index.cfm?fuseaction=login
Secure Content Management System, custom-built, written in ColdFusion using the Fusebox Methodology. Allows users add/edit/remove pages. - http://www.hondamedia.ie
Secure Corporate Extranet, custom-built, written in ColdFusion using the Fusebox Methodology. Allows to share files across the Internet(internal and external users). - http://www.carzone.ie/admin/
Password protected control panel. Allows users to maintain all aspects of the Carzone website including data import & export routines.
Portfolio
Education
| Sept 99 - Jun 00 | 1st Class Honours Higher Diploma Business Studies + IT, UCD Michael
Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Blackrock , Co. Dublin. Software Applications; Business IT; DB and MIS; Management of Organisations; Networking, ColdFusion, SQL Server, Internet Applications, Accountancy; Banking; Business Finance; Industrial Relations. |
| Sep 94 - Jun 98 | Honours Degree, Batchelor of Arts, UCD, Dublin. History, Spanish, Portuguese (1yr only), English (1yr only). |
| 1988 - 1994 | St. Josephs CBS, Fairview, Dublin 3. Leaving + Intermediate Certificate |
Courses
- Search Marketing World Conference 2008 - Dublin (March 07)
SEO, Meta tagging, Google AdWords, banner campaigns. - Search Marketing World Conference 2007 - Dublin (April 07)
SEO, Meta tagging, Google AdWords, banner campaigns. - Project Management Programme, Irish Management Institute, Dundalk (Nov 06 - Dec 06)
Time management, communication, GANNT. - Front-line Managers Dev Programme, Irish Management Institute, Dublin (Sept 05 - Dec 05)
Planning, motivation, delegation, HR. - SQL Server Database Administration, QA Training, Sandymount, Dublin (Oct 04 - Nov 04)
Database modelling, caching, indexes, stored procedures.
| Integrated Ticketing System |
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| Online Classified System (online payments) |
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| Website Content Management System (CMS) |
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| Document Management System (Honda Media Intranet) |
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| EMCDDA - EU body (multi-lingual version controlled CMS interfacing with back end database) |
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| Time Management Software (3rd Party) |
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