Simon J Donovan

Experience

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  Irish IT Industry

  Jun 1998 - Jul 2008

  Software Developer/IT Support

  Worked in the IT industry in Ireland on a wide variety of software systems with different companies including Compaq, ERA Maptec, Vantage Software and Eason Electronic. Systems included: Mobile/Cell Phone Top Up, Geological statistical analysis, Insurance Brokerage & CRM. Skills acquired/used/exposed to: Visual Basic, VBScript, VBA, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ASP, C#, C++• Geological statistical analysis - Wrote, developed and tested a tool in VBA to aid Geology students with their research, in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. It calculated rose diagrams based on a given subsection/square area of terrain. The rose diagrams represented the length and angle of veins and joints of rock in a given subsection of data.• Mobile/Cell Phone Top Up - Wrote, developed and tested a C# program to send and retrieve data from a pre-existing mobile network transaction gateway API written in C++.• Insurance Brokerage system - Tested and maintained various modules of the system written in Visual Basic.• CRM system - Worked on a helpdesk team that tracked and logged issues in ticketing software. Liaised with and developed key relationships with the CRM system software developers on site to troubleshoot these issues. Show less

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  The Plant Studios

  Jan 2007 - Mar 2007

  Sound Engineering Internship
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  Simon J Donovan Music

  May 2009 - Nov 2021

  Media & Game Composer

  Composer & producer of high quality music for award winning VR, PC & mobile games. High profile clients included Marvel Studios, ILMxLAB and Tencent. As a highly motivated, driven, enthusiastic and talented composer, I ran my own freelance music composing business, providing premium musical assets to game developers using the latest digital audio workstation technology.Responsibilities include:• Composing music cues interactively as well as linearly, according to instruction and asset lists provided by the game producers.• Using my orchestration and compositional abilities, I would write, revise and deliver the music cues in an efficient, timely manner, requiring great attention to detail and superb time management skills.• Upgrading and maintaining a small networked pro audio studio consisting of 3 high performance PC's. Software & hardware updates and network troubleshooting were carried out as needed.• Actively attending game development and game audio conferences and workshops to seek out new clientele and keep up to date on game audio technology. Show less

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  Vaco

  Mar 2018 - May 2018

  Data Support Associate

  Responsibilities included collecting and entering manual data to provide customer/agency data support and maintenance to Large Customer Sales & Sales Operations Teams.

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  Sensory, Inc.

  Nov 2021 - Oct 2024

  Field Applications Engineer

  Sensory develops and licenses technologies for speech recognition, natural language understanding, face and voice biometrics, wake words, computer vision, sound identification and more.• Provided timely and efficient technical support of various speech recognition SDK's, that were delivered to customers.• Maintained and enhanced an internal delivery system ensuring smooth delivery and licensing of SDK's to customers.• Administered guidance to the customers development teams, to help them understand how to implement and customize the SDK's to meet their specific use cases.• Reviewed & assessed the quality of speech data to ensure only top-tier datasets were used to train AI large language models.• Tested and suggested improvements to new and improved internal data collection tools.• Helped to QA, refine and enhance SDK documentation, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and usability for end users.• Managed weekly engineer support hours and invoicing of Development Agreements, ensuring precise billable time tracking and revenue recognition. Show less