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Education

Completed second level education in Ireland

Attended the CTYI programme 2006 to 2010

CTYI organises courses for second level students every summer in the months of June and July. Completed courses in computer applications, journalism, corporate business, psychology and philosophy.

Skills

Web Development

I have been working with PHP and MySQL since 2006. I am comfortable working with many frameworks but most of my recent development work has been centred around ZendFramework and CodeIgniter. I also have experience working with Wordpress (plugins & themes). My more recent work and that which I have more enjoyed has been with newer technologies such as Node.js, Nginx, CouchDB and Mongo.

Computer and Network Administration

I have experience in maintaining computer hardware including building PCs and upgrading existing hardware backed by strong troubleshooting skills. I am comfortable working with the following software packages, but pick up any new technology quickly:

• Windows, Mac OSX and Linux OSes as both desktop and server platforms
• LAMP stacks, including alternative components such as nginx and MariaDB or NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB
• Experience with networking and routing technologies including DNS, DHCP, BGP and IPTables
• IPv6 networking
• Network and service monitoring using Nagios, Cacti, OpenNMS and MRTG
• DOS and bash scripting

Projects

CoderDojo Dublin Coordinator

I have acted as Dublin Coordinator for CoderDojo since the Dublin Dojo started in August 2011. I am resposible for liasing with venues (such as the Science Gallery), mentors, attendees and their parents. I also answer queries from various people about the Dojo and direct them to the right contact for their query. I also act as a mentor on Saturdays which involves helping attendees with any problems they have. I also have to listen to feedback from attendees and their parents and from that adjust the content, instruct mentors and inform people accordingly.

DN42 Member, September 2010 to present

DN42 is a community of people who are interested in learning about routing protocols such as BGP. It encourages members to engage in providing interesting services such as mail hosting or database hosting for other DN42 members and this makes it a great learning environment and a good place to try out new and interesting technologies in an environment with a few users.

Work

SimplyFacebookA project for SimplyZesty

SimplyFacebook was an application I developed for SimplyZesty that allowed them to quickly and easily create competitions to be run on the Facebook Platform for their clients. It has been used on the Facebook pages of leading brands such as Universal Pictures and Vodafone.

Disruptive DevelopmentsLead Developer, started July 2011

I joined Disruptive Developments in July 2011 just 3 months after the company was founded. The company's core offering is a product called SocialForce which offers an API which allows a developer to get statistics from data collected from social networks such as twitter. As lead developer in the startup I was responsible most of the major technical decisions about the product such as the database platforms and servers. This really enabled me to get to grips with some of the latest emerging technologies such as CouchDB and Mongo.

Recognition

BT Young Scientist ComReg Award 2010ExploitDNS

I won the BTYSTE ComReg Award in January 2010 for my project entitled "Exploitation of routers using alternate DNS servers". The project detailed an attack on consumer CPE hardware which routed certain requests via a proxy server to capture a user's personal information such as login details.

Hobbies

• Photography
• Creating web apps
• Journalism
• Digital media