Adam Tsiopani

Current

Summer Intern at Jill Greenberg Studios
Freelance Photographer at AdamTsiopani.com
IT Manager at Dream Ireland Holiday Homes

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Past

IT Instructor at Kenmare Adult Education Centre

Education

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Recommended

7 people have recommended Adam

Connections

41 connections

Industry

Internet

Adam Tsiopani’s Summary

PHOTOGRAPHY
- Digital Photography
- Portraits
- Weddings
- Promotional coverage of music related events
- Travel Photography & Photojournalism
- Some experience with studio lighting
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Lightroom
- NeatImage
- LucisArt
- FluidMask
- Photomatix

COMPUTING
- Experienced PHP/MySQL Web Developer
- PHP/XML Web Services Developer
- C# Application Developer
- XML & RSS
- AJAX Applications
- Customisation of Open Source Products
- Bioinformatics & Genetics using PERL and JAVA
- MySQL Database Administrator, including optimisation
- Specialist in Online Booking Engines and the Travel Industry
- Extensive experience in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), with many Number 1 Positions on Google SERPs
- Effective Adwords and PPC/CPC Management
- Social networking with Facebook, MySpace
- Wordpress integration and development
- Cpanel & WHM
- Server migration
- PHP4->5 upgrade
- Custom Apache Config.
- Operating Systems: CentOS. Windows SBS Server 2003. Windows Vista. Windows XP. Windows 2000. Windows 3.1. DOS.
- LAN Administration
- Staff technical support

BUSINESS
- Total Management of IT operations
- Active role in board meetings
- Control of IT budget
- Affiliations & Partnerships Acquisition
- Project implementation
- Purchasing

Adam Tsiopani’s Specialties:

Software Development, Server-Sided Web Development, Client-Sided Web Development, Affiliations Negotiation and Management, Syndication Management, Web Services Development, Database Design and Optimisation, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, Purchasing, Server Architecture, XML, CSS, HTML, XHTML, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Unix, Centos, Windows, Microsoft Access, Search, Usability, Apache, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, NeatImage, Photomatix, LucisArt

Adam Tsiopani’s Experience

Summer Intern

Jill Greenberg Studios

(Photography industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)

Summer internship with Jill Greenberg - The Manipulator - in Beverly Hills, California. Details to follow.
Freelance Photographer

AdamTsiopani.com

(Photography industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

Freelance photographer. Main subject matter is portraits and candids with an emphasis on promotional photography for Bands and Music Events.

Commissions include: Murphys Live 2008 (Ireland), Munster Fleadh Cheoil 2008 (Kenmare, Ireland), Solas Festival 2008 (Ireland), Palmer-Cutler Product Launch 2006 (Dublin Ireland). Photo installation for PF McCarthy's Bar & Restaurant 2008 (Kenmare, Ireland)
IT Manager

Dream Ireland Holiday Homes

(Internet industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

MANAGER OF I.T. OPERATIONS
Basically to bring a 15 year old company into the 21st century, utilising as many technological approaches as possible. Reducing overheads and increasing throughput using better automation.
- Web Development (Mainly PHP, MySQL. AJAX techniques recently)
- Development of XML Web Services & Syndication
- MySQL Database Management. Legacy Access DB Management.
- Centos Apache Web Server Administration (1 million visitors / year)
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Online Marketing Management, Mainly Adwords
- Web Affiliations Co-Ordinator
- Utilities and automation (Mainly Visual C#)
- In-House Tech Support (15 users)
- Network Administration (Windows SBS 2003)
IT Instructor

Kenmare Adult Education Centre

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

October 1999 — May 2006 (6 years 8 months)

Teaching and coordinating adult computer applications classes on a part-time and contractual basis at the full range of levels from beginners to advanced. Classes were FETAC or City & Guilds Certified. I also created and ran fun-based, activity driven computer skills classes for primary school children aged 6-12.

Adam Tsiopani’s Education

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Bioinformatics, Genetics, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science 2002 — 2005

Dissertation titled: The field of bioinformatics can benefit significantly from the increased implementation of artificial neural networks
Awarded Scholarship from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the UREKA Programme for Summer Research Placement, investigating Cofactor-Interacting Regions in Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) Using Inter- and Intra-Molecular Coevolution Analysis. I created and developed several protein analysis softwares in Perl.

Additional Information

Adam Tsiopani’s Interests:

Photography, Music, Guitar, Drumming, Travel, Web Technologies, The Internet, Programming, People, Digital Artistry, Graphic Design, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Immunology, Film