Project Manager
2020 - PRESENTFinance App for Fast-growing Start-up- Collaborated with the product manager and client team to establish the MVP requirements for new finance web application through discovery phase planning.
- Assisted the design and development team to create a project plan including timeline, cost and team resources required to deliver the MVP for the web application.
- Managed the design and development team using agile methodologies to successfully deliver the finance web application MVP for mobile and desktop, on-time and on-budget.
Project Manager
2020 - PRESENTBanpu Public- Created business strategy plans and documentation for a number of innovative products being developed in the Banpu Innovation Lab.
- Managed several projects and teams to deliver prototypes of new innovative products including a gas control system digital twin product and an e-mobility control and data tracking product.
- Managed the development of a new bespoke and interactive website for the Banpu Innovation Lab, which involved creating detailed requirements and working with the development team to successfully deliver the website in wordpress ahead of launch.
Co-founder
2020 - PRESENTThe Lock Inn- Co-founded The Lock Inn, which is Ireland’s first live, online and interactive event venue and production company that creates, produces, and manages all aspects of online livestreamed events delivered across a range of genres and audiences.
- Supported the delivery of over 50 livestreamed shows (theatre, comedy, film, live music, charity fundraisers, and quizzes) to audiences in over 30 countries, with an estimated 120,000 virtual attendees to date.
- Developed the online event venue website which includes event details, full ticketing solution, and fulfillment of the live stream event itself (including emails, ticket links, password protection, and live streaming of the event).
- Developed multiple similar sites for clients in Shopify to deliver similar platforms for customers to deliver online/virtual live streamed events such as gigs, concerts, plays, and corporate events.
Agile Coach and Scrum Master
2020 - 2020Freelance- Led the development team's day-to-day by managing priorities, feedback on development requirements, and daily stand-up meetings.
- Implemented a new agile framework for the development team to streamline development and ensure that the highest priority developments were being executed as per the senior product manager's requirements.
- Set-up a more appropriate weekly sprint process, including organizing and leading sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily stand-up meetings, and improving communication between the distributed development team and management.
- Implemented a Jira and Confluence framework to facilitate the new sprint framework and conducted a full set of automated KPI reporting on product development for senior management.
- Consulted on product and user requirements for the energy management industry based on previous experience in the industry.
Senior Project Manager
2014 - 2020IES- Delivered the MVP for a commercial launch of a SaaS web platform which combines IoT, data visualization, analysis, simulation modelling and machine learning to provide advanced analysis for the design and management of smart buildings.
- Delivered ideation to MVP of a web-based dashboard tool. It allows users to create bespoke dashboards to easily view key performance indicators and a range of other widgets targeted at the smart building and smart city sector.
- Managed the delivery of an MVP for the commercial launch of a desktop energy network simulation tool. It enables engineers and consultants to carry out advanced network design and analysis quickly and easily.
- Acted as project lead for an internal iOS- and Android-based energy auditing app.
- Served as technical project manager for several R&D and commercial software projects with budgets from $100,000-$1 million.
- Involved in managing cross-disciplinary teams and working with globally-based partners, suppliers, and clients to ensure successful project delivery.
- Served as Agile advocate for three years, providing coaching and process improvements to promote internal operational efficiencies.
- Coordinated and contributed to the writing of project bids to commercial clients and for R&D research grants. Lead writer of successful proposal bids to the competitive European Union Horizon 2020 grant program (projects in the six-figure range).
- Provided consultancy, technical input, and wrote several research papers relating to areas in building energy efficiency, smart building control, energy and smart network modeling, model calibration, data acquisition, data-mining, and visualization.
Project Manager
2009 - 2014Castlecool- Employed as a group energy manager for Ireland’s largest temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics. I advanced to the position of group project manager within the first year.
- Managed and implemented an extensive energy management project through the development of a software-based model of the company's warehouse facilities. Identified viable energy and cost-saving measures, resulting in an 18% reduction in energy cost.
- Developed a bespoke in-house preventative maintenance and energy database platform that reduced maintenance costs and allowed for better tracking and auditing of system and building performance.
- Led and implemented a project which streamlined the customer administration process by using data transforms to automate the input of data into the warehouse management systems, resulting in a reduced admin overhead of 35% and fewer errors in orders.
- Facilitated several external client-facing projects focused on system integration and process improvements, which directly reduced labor costs for the company.
- Managed and contributed to all active internal and client-facing projects, including IT, Operational, 'Lean Programmes', Energy, Management, Capital Spend, and Infrastructural projects as required, which resulted in cost savings and revenue growth.
- Managed all I.T. development, budgeting, and planning.
- Became a finalist for GradIreland Graduated of the year in 2011, as nominated by the company for the projects I had led.