Business Analyst, Finance Data / AIB

Since January 2018

Business Analyst working with Financial Reporting and Treasury teams and Data Design and Architecture.
Projects include IFRS9, Liquidity Reporting, and various internal data quality or regulatory projects.
Producing requirements, user stories, functional specifications, process flows and maps.
Using a range of tools from JIRA to Visio to Teradata SQL.

Project Manager / Square1 Software

2017

Project Manager for multiple clients in sectors such as Fin-tech, crowd-sourcing and data analysis and reporting, managing from MVP to Scale and Support.

• Managing the Client's journey from Scoping Sessions, Requirements Gathering, Wireframing, User Stories and support.
• Managing Android, iOS, Web and design teams using Agile tools, working with distributed teams in Spain and Dublin.
• Working with clients to guide them through risks, opportunities and product vision, designing roadmaps and features from scratch or via support tickets for production apps.

Web Developer / trusthub.ie

July 2015 - Oct 2016

Developer and Product Owner for this online security and forensics application for car sales on classified ads. I developed a Rails 4 API on PostreSQL, with Web and Admin app clients also in Rails. I prepared technical documentation for internal training and for client integration.

Tools and technologies used include:

• EC2 production and staging, Capistrano deployment with ejson encryption and http auth
• OAuth with Devise Authentication, Stripe Payments, New Relic, Piwik Analytics, Tinfoil Security
• Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery, MorrisJS and RaphaelJS graphs and charts, Google Vision, Twilio, Stripe
• Slack, JIRA, Kanban and Confluence (wiki pages)

Web Developer / bourbon.fm

June 2014 - June 2015

As a junior developer and product manager for Bourbon.fm, I helped secure early stage investment and a place on the Wayra accelerator programme. I built Bourbon's platform, a medium.com-style CMS in Rails, designed the landing pages, and managed contributing senior developers and designers using Scrum tools.

Tools and technologies used include:

• Justinmind and Balsamiq prototyping and wireframing
• Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Twitter Bootstrap, Haml / ERB
• Heroku, AWS S3, EC2 and Route 53

Change Management, Operations / Allied Irish Banks plc

May 2006 - Aug 2011

Retail and Business Banking representative at requirements gathering and planning groups, working closely with Business Analysts, Project Managers and Department heads to influence change in many areas from IT to compliance and data protection.
Internal communications, training and project roll-outs for the Branch network.
Operations support for the Branch Network, dealing with queries ranging from technical to legal.
PA to the Managing Director during the restructure of the Republic of Ireland business.

Training and Design / Freelance

ongoing

I build responsive HTML5 sites or Wordpress sites for small businesses such as Nadasen Ram Ravi HollaDee, Fresh Perspectives and Victoria Mary Clarke.

I have built Rails prototypes and planning documentation for early stage startups, as well as training courses in Web Development at BigWave Media

At Swanfield, London (May 2012 - May 2013, part-time) and at Razorback, New York (Aug 2011 - Feb 2012) I produced web content and worked on photo shoots for new collections.

Between August 2000 - April 2006, I delivered language training in France: l'Université de Reims, l'Université de Paris 12, Siemens, Infineon Technologies, Jean-Claude Jitrois.