Professional Experience
Since completing my BSc. in Computer & Software
Engineering @
Athlone Institute of Technology in 2002 I have worked as a C#.NET developer
and web designer. Initially I spent 2 years developing mobile applications with
Qubos
before setting up my own internet advertising company which
kept me out of trouble for a few years until my return to college in 2009. In 2010 I added a higher
diploma in Software Design & Development from
NUI Galway to my CV...
PhD
I am now in the second year of my Energy Informatics PhD. My most recent paper is entitled: "An Energy Efficiency Metric to Report the Cost of Data Centre Services to Consumers in Real-Time". My research also involves a programming collaboration with the
Green & Sustainable IT UNIT (DGSIT) in DERI.
I am a member of the
European Alliance for Innovation. I have recently redesigned the NUI Galway
Civil Engineering
website and the new NUI Galway
Energy Night website (of which I am also webmaster). I supervise postgraduate labs and occasionally write code for off-campus companies on a freelance basis.
I also tutor @ the Programming Drop In Support Centre in
NUI Galway known as
DISC...
MusicI play guitar - gigging a covers set most weekends around the midlands and here in Galway, where I currently live while at college. My blue-laquered
alto saxophone gets a run out every so often - but mostly only at home these days. My current favourite bands / artists are: Elbow, Snow Patrol, Coldplay and the very talented Ed Sheeran. Clapton, Knopfler, R.E.M and The Eagles are my blue chips...
RugbyIn the past I have played outhalf for Blackrock, Longford & Buccaneers and still maintain my 'non-player' memberships - in case the damage to my dodgy left knee can be reversed with some miraculous surgery not yet invented...
ReadingI have read every John Grisham to date and check Easons on a regular basis for his next offering. Between Grishams I am making my way through a list of 'must reads'. Joseph Heller's
Catch 22 has just been added to the 'reddit' pile. Jo Nesbo is my new 'favourite' author...
Mark 'Scooby' White: 21/05/2012
