Experience

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  Astronomy ireland

  Jun 1996 - Aug 1996

  Programmer

  Developed a large scale C++ program to determine the astronomical ephemeris of the Comet Tabur which was visible from Sept 96 to Dec 96 in the sky.

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  Aib

  Apr 1997 - Oct 1997

  Student placement

  • Intra work placement from college.• Project to design and code a website in HTML which was linked to the AIB website at the time for a SFA conference that was sponsored by AIB• General IT support in 24 hour banking (software upgrades, server maintenance etc)

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  Aib capital markets

  Oct 1998 - Feb 2005

  Software engineer

  • Developed and maintained a Customer Profile Information System.• End to End Development of Profile system included the technologies (VB, ADL, DTS, SQL Server, Essbase, VBA with Excel front end) • Supporting Corporate and Commercial Financial control in month, quarter and year end procedures.• Using VBA with Excel on an Essbase backend to produce visualisation reports for Financial Control.• Successfully completed a ‘Train the Trainer’ course and became a facilitator of a 2 day internal soft skills course named ‘Learning to live the values’ Show less

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  Aib

  Mar 2005 - now

  • IT Delivery manager of Agile data warehousing projects, currently using the Kanban methodology.• Strong focus on adherence to standards/methodologies including SOX.• Enabling the performance of both permanent developers and strategic partnered contractors by supporting them in the production of documentation, solution development, unit and SIT and BAT testing and successful deployment of their assigned projects.• Operate as a Technical lead of new Teradata and Ab-Initio developments, including requirements gathering and task prioritisation.• Identification of opportunities to improve data quality and data warehouse data integrity.• Maintaining a strong working relationship with both the business sponsors and the technology support teams, to ensure a smooth delivery of deployments to production.• Establishing and running a monthly EDW ( Enterprise Data Warehouse) Guild session to bring like skilled people together to form a developer community for peer learning opportunities. Show less • Design, development, management and support of Data Warehouse batch processes on a UNIX platform using Teradata RDBMS.• Analysis of database and query outputs and implementation of database design and functionality to optimise database performance.• Project Management of new developments in the system including requirements gathering and task prioritisation.• Specification and analysis of warehouse development designs.• Frequent ad-hoc data analysis and investigation driven by user requests and support requirements.• Development and execution of test plans for both systems development and reporting requirements.• Strong focus on adherence to standards/methodologies including SOX.• Identification of opportunities to improve data quality and data warehouse data integrity.• Enabling the performance of external contractors by supporting them in the production of documentation, solution development, unit and user testing and successful deployment of their assigned projects• Training junior colleagues on our coding methodologies and support requirements. Show less

  • People Operations Manager

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Data Engineering Lead (Demand Operations)

    Aug 2021 - Oct 2024

  • Demand Operations Business Manager

    Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Assistant Manager

    Oct 2015 - Oct 2020

  • Data warehouse developer - Teradata

    Mar 2005 - Oct 2015