Eddy Carroll
Chief Technical Officer at Amulet Devices
- Location
- Ireland
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Eddy Carroll's Overview
- Current
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- Chief Technical Officer at Amulet Devices
- Technical Director at Windnet Community Internet
- Past
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- Technical Director at Snoopdos Technology Ltd
- Chief Technical Officer at Virtual Access
- Principal Engineer at Virtual Access
- Senior Software Engineer at Artist Graphics
- Software Engineer at Artist Graphics Europe
- Education
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- Trinity College Dublin
- St Andrew's College
- Recommendations
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5 people have recommended Eddy
- Connections
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379 connections
Eddy Carroll's Summary
Systems developer, embedded systems specialist, and technologist with particular interest in emerging technologies, and ways to bring them to a wider audience.
Specialties
Classic embedded systems skills: low-level, realtime, highly optimised code; assembly language; interrupt drivers, debugging techniques & tools.
Also plenty of experience with most forms of networking (both hardware & software), and assorted PC hardware, system administration, web design & infrastructure, etc.
More recently, I've been working with investors to help validate technology startups as potential investment targets.
Eddy Carroll's Experience
Chief Technical Officer
Amulet Devices
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry
November 2007 – Present (5 years 8 months)
Developing Amulet's forthcoming line of interactive control devices for Windows Media Center, featuring voice recognition and other innovations.
Technical Director
Windnet Community Internet
December 2003 – Present (9 years 7 months)
Responsible for design, implementation and maintenance of non-profit volunteer local area network connecting 100 apartments at The Windmill in Dublin 2 to the Internet. More information at http://www.windmillmc.com/broadband/
Chief Technical Officer
Virtual Access
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry
February 2002 – December 2003 (1 year 11 months)
Responsible for setting technology direction for Virtual Access following a successful MBO. Liased with technology partners to facilitate joint development projects; briefed potential investors on company technology. Worked with development group to bring new products to market in timely fashion.
(Although I am no longer directly involved with day-to-day operations at Virtual Access, I remain on the board as an external director.)
Principal Engineer
Virtual Access
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry
April 1998 – January 2002 (3 years 10 months)
Involved in all aspects of software development for company's leading line of remotely managed network routers, and central network management system.
Eddy Carroll's Skills & Expertise
Eddy Carroll's Education
Trinity College Dublin
BA Mod, Computer Science
September 1986 – June 1990
St Andrew's College
1974 – 1986
Eddy Carroll's Additional Information
- Interests:
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Emerging technology, broadband access, MANs, security, consumer electronics, retail kiosks
- Groups and Associations:
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Founding member of CUGI (Commodore User's Group of Ireland) 1983-1996 - served on executive committee for most of those years. Sysop of Infomatique BBS, one of the main Dublin-based bulletin board systems during the 80's and early 90's. ACM member, PLATO
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- Honors and Awards:
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MVP Award, Artist Graphics (1995)
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