Founder, Director at Tuskar Rock Software Ltd
Ireland
Founder, Director at Tuskar Rock Software Ltd
Ireland
From 2002 until March 2007 I have been working as a Software Consultant for various companies either as an individual or as part of Edgespace Ltd.
From April 2007 to December 2007 I worked on various in-house product development initiatives.
In January 2008 I founded a new bespoke software development/consultancy company - Tuskar Rock Software.
In addition, I race mountain/road bikes at an Elite/Pro level.
Fluent in Java, J2EE, J2ME, GWT, C++, Eiffel, HTML, XML, Perl, MySQL,
Web Services
Working knowledge of C, Prolog, Sybase, Struts, Open GL, MFC
Proficient with OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems
Competitive programmer – algorithmic based programming competitions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years )
Bespoke Software Development Consultancy
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — January 2008 (3 years 6 months)
Formed Edgespace, an entirely self-funded software consultancy company with a bunch of fellow graduates after finishing my Computer Science Degree. Ireland based, we have been profitable from inception. The company provided a wide variety of technical skills mostly to Bay Area technology companies.
We excel at quickly becoming immersed in and understanding our clients' code base, understanding problems that need to be solved and providing a timely and cost effective solutions.
More details about our company can be found at www.edgespace.net
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2006 — March 2007 (1 year )
Responsible for the design and implementation of several web-based back office management applications for what is now RSA Adaptive Authentication, a tokenless two-factor authentication and fraud monitoring suite for financial institutions.
* Design, build, support and enhancement of J2EE/Struts/Spring-based back office application suite on a wide variety of J2EE platforms including Tomcat, WebSphere 5.1, 6.0, 6.1 and WebLogic 8.1 and 9.1.
* Carried out re-brand of back office applications following RSA acquisition including integration with RSA UI look-and-feel and standards
* Provided advanced troubleshooting and implementation assistance for customer deployments including the implementation of customer-specific enhancements, patches and documentation.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 8 months)
* Developed bespoke Perl testing framework for client's web-based J2EE/JSP management console
* Created suite of automated tests for the management console using this framework
* Scoped and implemented bug fixes for J2EE/JSP/Struts-based management/monitoring console, Swing configuration application, UNIX scripts and long-running C++ background process.
* Implemented web management console and monitoring system feature enhancements
* Responsible for responding to customer support technical queries (tier 2 response)
* Built an automated web crawler that was used to map out a sophisticated web UI and then perform automated fussy testing. Application was written in Perl.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)
Investigated and prototyped the concept of a "smart road". A "smart road" is a stretch of roadway equipped with a network of sensors that allows the roadway to sense the state of the road including the presence and behavior of vehicles and other road users such as pedestrians and cyclists as well as the conditions of the road surface and surrounding environment The project involved specifying the hardware and middleware needed to support a range of “smart road” applications and creating sample applications demonstrating this technology
Involved in “Think Tank” type discussions on governmental initiatives
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)
Responsible for creating test documentation and procedures for a state of the art network monitoring system. Within this I developed a test framework using C, Java and Perl on the Windows and Linux platforms Involved in product development using C, Java and Perl.
Trained members of the Sales Team on product deployment and operation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)
BA-MOD , Computer Science , 2000 — 2004
4 year honors degree (BA-Mod) in Computer Science (Equivalent to USA Masters)
Subjects: (Selection)
Specialized: Distributed Systems, Computer Vision
Mathematics, Advanced Programming Techniques, Systems Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture/Engineering, Statistics, Database Design, Systems Modelling
Results from 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th year:
1st (Equivalent to 4.0 GPA)
Won prizes from 1st to 3rd year due to my final grade.
Game Changing Technology, Mountain/Road Cycling/Racing, Travel, Cinema, Gourmet Cooking
Level 1 Cycling Coach
2009
Ranked 41st in UCI World Marathon rankings
2008
Current Irish Mountain Bike Marathon Champion
2nd UK 100km National Marathon Series
National medals in Cycling, Basketball and Karate
Won the 2002 Barclay Capital International Java Programming Competition
Ranked highly in numerous national and international programming competitions both as part of a team and individually. Competitions include the Red Eye 24 Hour programming competition and 3 international BCS team programming competitions
I won prizes for achieving exceptional results in my first, second and third year college exams