Bio

I am a lecturer at University College Dublin. I've been involved in the development of software ranging from mass market applications to enterprise development tools. I helped shape software engineering management processes at Havok, the Irish maker of physics and game engine tools for video games. In Sepro Telecom we developed an awesome cross-platform rating and billing engine for the telecommunications industry; the company was subsequently acquired by Openet. I spent some key years in IONA Technologies during its rapid growth to IPO to maturity phases. It was in IONA that I became convinced of the superiority of Kent Beck's Extreme Programming and practice-based approaches for organising software development. While at Symantec - the US software security and utilities company - I was part of the growing localization group focusing on Asian products, multi-byte and unicode enabling of software. Symantec was (and still is) a great place to work. Specialties: software product development life cycle, management of teams, technology evaluation, software development