Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details:
Name : Seán Fitzgerald
Address : 18 Craike House,
Dean Court,
Francis Street,
Dublin 8.
Telephone : 087 9890335
E-Mail: [email protected]
Date of Birth : Oct
08, 1973
Skills:
Oracle 8i/9i, PL/SQL, Visual Basic .Net, ASP.Net, Visual Basic 3.0-6.0 (including considerable experience with COM and ADO), Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, 7.0 & 2000, VBA for Access & Excel, Microsoft Transaction Server, .Net Web Services, ASP, ADO.NET, Crystal Reports 8, Jscript, HTML.
Certifications:
Microsoft Certified Professional: Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft Certified Professional: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual
Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
Work Experience:
Mar 2003 – Sep 2004 Department of Agriculture.
Maynooth Business Park, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
- Design and Coding of new and existing Oracle PL/SQL packages for use within the Corporate Customer System: Creating Customer Associations, Assigning Customer Administration Areas, Generic Customer Upload, Extracting Data to the SAP Payments system.
- Design, Coding and Support in the integration of Department of Forestry customer data into the Department of Agriculture Customer database – PL/SQL, SQL and Packages.
- Design and Coding of a Visual Basic search application used to match and “clean-up” Forestry customer data against existing Dept of Agriculture customer data.
Feb 2001 – Dec 2002 Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture House, Kildare St., Dublin 2.
- Development of a prototype Sheep Tagging and Registration system using VB.Net, ASP.Net and MS SQL Server.
- Development of a prototype of the existing Fallen Animal Payment Scheme in a .Net application – using ADO.Net and VB.Net.
- Design and Coding of new CCS procedures: CCS to NASA (SAP) Customer Extract (PL/SQL, SQL).
- Implementation of a European Fund Accounting reporting system – combining account details from SAP and EFA mainframe data into a summary on Oracle 8i. Developed using PL/SQL (Views, Stored Procedures and Packages).
- Design, development, implementation of the Fallen Animal Payment scheme – developed using VB6, SQL 2000 and Crystal Reports 8.
- Design, development, testing and implementation of the Payments and Animal Movements Phase for the BSE Purchase for Destruction scheme. Design, development and implementation of the Payments phase of the Special Purchase Scheme. All development completed using VB6, SQL Server 6.5 and SQL Server 2000.
Dec 2000 – Jan 2001 Delta Systems. 1-3 Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin 2.
Development of VB6 components
for use with the Goldmine Contacts Management system. These included a hotel reservation system used in conjunction
with Goldmine and a data import application.
VB6 components interacted with proprietary Goldmine COM objects.
Aug 1999 – Oct 2000 Performix Technologies. The Warehouse, 35 Barrow Street, Dublin 4.
Development of various VB6 Call Centre Performance Management components (ActiveX DLLs). Development of Oracle 8 queries for use by VB6 data access components (ADO). Development and support of web-based performance appraisal software (ASP, Jscript, HTML). Conversion of the Performix Call Centre software from Oracle to the MS SQL Server 7.0 platform. Development of software to allow the Performix product to integrate with most major commercial databases through ODBC. Development and support of Performix Overnight VB code and SQL procedures. All VB components were developed with the aid of a UML lifecycle. Providing assistance and training in the use of MS SQL Server and SQL Coding.
Jan 1999 - April 1999; AMPlus. 70 Philip Street, Sydney 2000,
Australia.
Mar 1998 - Sep 1998 Job Title: Tool Designer/Software Engineer.
Design and implementation of a web based System-Healthcheck intranet site using Microsoft Transaction Server, Visual Basic 5 components, JScript & ASP. Design and implementation of a Server Analysis tool using VB5 - used to automatically analyse a server for any new/changed files. Provided support on the department's web-based Superannuation system using VB5 activeX components, MTS, ASP & JScript (particularly the in-process & out-of-process RDO and ADO data access components). Optimising VB performance and response times using the Numega suite of VB instumentation tools.
Dec 1997 – March 1998 Fineos/Managed
Solutions Corporation.
Pembroke House, 8 – 10 Lower Pembroke St., Dublin 2.
Job Title: Software Engineer.
Design and bug fixing of MSC's VB 5.0 Insurance software. Design of Visual Basic ActiveX components (Custom Controls and In-process/Out-of-process servers). Packaging various sections of the insurance software into custom controls to allow reuse throughout the company's. Design & implementation of a language translation server to allow built software to be localised. Using VB5.0 to manipulate MSC's in-house technical architecture (Visual C++ servers & Orbix).
June 1996 – Dec 1997 Microsoft EOC. Blackthorn Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.
Job Title: Application Support Specialist
Support/design of client-server applications using Visual Basic 4.0/5.0 & SQL Server 6.5. Design/Support of Internet applications using ActiveX documents, IDC & HTML. Support and enhancement of internal Access 2.0/7.0 order processing applications.
Education/Qualifications:
Microsoft Certified Professional: Developing Applications in Visual Basic 5.0
(Expired).
Microsoft Certified Professional: Implementing a Database Design in SQL Server 6.5 (Expired).
Third Level :
1995 - 1996 University of Limerick, Plassey Technological Park, Limerick.
Graduate Diploma in Computing.
1991 - 1995 University of Limerick, Plassey Technological Park, Limerick.
Bachelor of Business in Accounting and Economics,
Second Class Honours Grade 2. Minor Option: Information Technology.
Final Year Thesis: "The Commercial Applications of the Internet: An Irish and American Perspective."
Secondary Level :
1986 - 1991 Árdscoil
Rís, North Circular Road, Limerick.
Leaving Certificate 1991.
Additional Information:
My experience in the Department of Agriculture, Performix, AMP, Microsoft and MSC has taught me an enormous amount about the development and support of Client/Server applications, database & web development and the IT environment in general. I believe my skill and experience would be of benefit to any Information Technology department.
I have experienced work in a wide range of companies in
Ireland, U.S.A and Australia and I have always been efficient, hardworking and
trustworthy. I am also friendly,
courteous, outgoing and have always got on very well with fellow
employees. I work excellently as part
of a team and I believe I would be of benefit to any IT department with a
requirement for my skills.
Achievements:
Received an AMP
Bronze Award from AMPlus for developing solutions for problems on their
web-based Superannuation system.
Elected as Postgraduate Representative on the College of Electronics and Informatics Faculty Board for 1995-96.
Awarded a certificate in weight training supervision by the National Coaching and Training Centre (NCTC) in January 1996.
Full Driving License.
Interests:
I have a keen interest in surfing and golf. I also like to travel and have backpacked/surfed in Australia, New Zealand, South America, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco. I’m also interested in music and I have an in-depth knowledge of audio recording and various audio packages such as Steinberg Cubase, Wavelab and Soundforge.
References:
Department of Agriculture (Maynooth): Breege Meehan, 01 5053369; [email protected]
Department of Agriculture: Sean Keevey, 01 607 2000 ext 2491; [email protected]
Delta Systems: David Larkin, 01 6787061; [email protected]
Performix Technologies: Clem Prendergast; 01 6778222; [email protected]
Managed Solutions Corporation: Karen Furlong; 01 6399700; [email protected]
Microsoft: Steve
Nolan; 01 7065377; [email protected]