Paul O'Connor

Experience

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  Paul O'Connor Architect

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2007

  Principal / Developer Architect / Eco-Architect
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  John F. O'Connor & Associates, Architects & Planning Consultants

  Sept 1999 - Jul 2003

  Senior Architect

  Senior Architect. Adapted the Essex Design Guide to Irish standards and applied it to the design of a number of new residential developments, including a community of over 2000 dwellings at Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15.

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  Ballon Construction Ltd.

  Jul 2003 - Mar 2006

  Senior Architect

  Established in-house architectural services for a commercial property developer. Projects included the design, planning and construction of a development of 220 dwellings and apartments at Phelim Wood, Tullow, Co. Carlow.

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  Business Network International (BNI)

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  Chapter Director

  Led our three-person management team to grow the Chapter membership of business owners from 24 to 36 Members over a 6-month period.

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  Axiom Design

  Feb 2008 - Jan 2009

  Senior Architect / Eco-Architect

  Interior Design, Architecture & Planning, Eco-Architecture and Eco-Concept Development.

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  DAEDALUS [vision¦creativity¦innovation¦change]

  Feb 2009 - Jun 2011

  Owner

  Helping individuals, groups and organisations to uncover their blind spots, remove their mental blocks, release their creative thinking and make better decisions, by enhancing their Intuitive Intelligence.

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  Paul O'Connor Architect

  Feb 2009 - Jul 2009

  Principal
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  CarlowIT - Lifelong Learning/Skillsnet

  Sept 2009 - May 2010

  Assistant Lecturer - Part Time

  Assistant Lecturer and co-organiser (with Erik van Lennep) of HETAC Level 9 Certificate Skillnet course for graduate and professional designers, in Sustainable Design & Innovation (SDI).

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  PSI - PURESTREAM

  Jun 2011 - now

  Working with entrepreneurial start-ups, organisations, groups and individuals to develop their Intuitive Intelligence, by using unique creative problem-solving and strategic-thinking techniques, to uncover blind spots, remove mental blocks, release creative thinking and make better decisions.In addition, we train and project manage teams of professional CRV-Remote Viewers, to provide unique intuitive intelligence information gathering services to organisations, business owners and individuals. Show less

  • Owner & CRV-Remote Viewer, CRV Trainer & Project Manager

    Jan 2009 - now

  • Owner Principal

    Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
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  POLUS Intelligence

  Jan 2012 - Sept 2014

  Partner: Competitive Intelligence, Innovation Management & Serious Games

  POLUS Intelligence is Ireland's only Competitive Intelligence, Innovation Management and Business War Games services provider. Our mission is to help our clients to find, obtain and hold their competitive advantage. We increase our clients' competitiveness and minimise their risk exposure across their entire value chain, through the application of best Competitive Intelligence and Innovation Management practice and training, Gamification and Serious Games.Our clients include international companies and agencies, state organisations, non-governmental organisations, private businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. Show less

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  The Sarah Bird Foundation

  Sept 2012 - Jul 2018

  Interim Chairperson & Non-Executive Director (Voluntary)

  Volunteer position as non-Executive Director and Board Chairperson at The Sarah Bird Foundation, an Irish-based international humanitarian organisation dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform the stress, trauma and suffering resulting from conflict and natural disaster, into lives of resilience and fulfilment, accompanied by dignity and respect. [http://www.sbf.ie]

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  Strategist, Design Thinker, Innovation Catalyst & Serious Games Creator

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2016

  Owner

  Providing strategic design thinking, applied innovation management and scenario-based serious games and wargames to business.

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  Katawave

  Nov 2014 - May 2015

  Immersive Engagement

  At KATAWAVE we are exploring the humanisation of business through radical and disruptive innovation at the highest levels of international business. Just like every human, every business carries the 'stories' it uses to define its 'reality'. Stories engage our mental, physical and emotional bodies. They connect our extrinsic and intrinsic worlds. They immerse us in imagined worlds, past, present and future, and reconnect us to our spiritual and moral core. Stories make us question what it means to be truly human. My role at KATAWAVE is to explore, create and produce, highly immersive and engaging experiences, using design thinking, trans-media, multi-sensory engagement, role-playing, gamification and serious games, including scenarios and business war games. Through multi-sensory engagement, we immerse our clients in deep personal explorations, to explore and find answers critical to the future success of their personal and business challenges. Show less

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  Accenture

  Nov 2015 - May 2016

  Innovation Ecosystem Development Manager

  First external hire to the management team forming Accenture’s new global Centre for Innovation in Dublin’s Silicon Docks. Responsibilities included design thinking and innovation research, workshop design and facilitation, and as the contact point for the Centre for Innovation with the internal and external innovation ecosystems.

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  SCENARIO Serious Games

  Jul 2016 - now

  Owner

  At SCENARIO we create innovative, highly immersive and engaging, gamified experiences for corporate, SME and NGO, senior executive and manager-level decision makers, and 2nd- and 3rd-level educators, through bespoke and customised scenario-based round-table exercises, designed to explore and stress-test strategy, generate insight, and expand awareness of strategic, commercial, political, social and historical issues.By applying Serious Games, War Games, Megagames and Innovation Management techniques, to business and education, we provide unique opportunities for decision makers and educators to explore historical issues, near-future scenarios and unknown future challenges, within a gamified, time-constrained, competitive environment, against expert opponents.Scenario Exercises are highly energising, support immersive team-building and communication skills, and provide a genuine alternative to 'Death By PowerPoint"! Show less

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  International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA)

  Jul 2017 - Feb 2019

  Member Board Of Directors (Voluntary)

  Non-Executive volunteer Director of IRVA, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the responsible use and development of remote viewing. IRVA is an independently formed member organisation of scientists, remote viewing professionals, students, and other interested persons.

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  Roaming Knights - Chess & Traditional Games Meetup

  Nov 2021 - now

  Founder

  A casual meetup teaching traditional social games to adults (chess, draughts/checkers, dominoes, Backgammon, Go) in alocal cafés, to support and promote social play for adult mental health.