Gearoid Garvey
Employment Experience
June ’07 Aug ‘07
0877437741 | gearoid.garvey@gmail.com
BEZ Systems 345A Summer Street, Boston, MA. Paid Internship
Developed lab server website to manage server tasks in Ruby on Rails. Configured servers with various Operating Systems (Windows, Linux and Solaris) for the install of HPOV performance agent. Configured and installed Jboss on UNIX and SUSE servers. Updating and maintaining systems. Configured servers for the install of various Operating Systems (HPUX and AIX)
Summer ‘06
Triangle Computer Services Ireland Ltd Clanwilliam House, Clanwilliam Place, Dublin 2 Contract
Contracted to IBM for a refresh of EPOS System in a major retail store in Ireland, England, Scotland and Spain. Physical removal of old system. Installation of new hardware. Testing of new system.
Aug ‘04 Sep ‘05
Insilco Technologies Carraroe, Co. Galway
Prep and finishing cables of various sizes. Moulding machine operator. Awarded recognized safety certificate.
Educational Qualifications/Achievements
Third Level B.Sc (Honours) Computing in Multimedia Systems/Web Engineering 2008-2009 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Final Year Subjects:
Advanced Web Design Mobile Computing Usability and Information Systems Multimedia Systems Media Technology
Final Year Project: Developed blogs in CakePHP and Ruby on Rails to illustrate the advantages
and disadvantages of using frameworks to create web applications.
2005-2008
B.Sc in Computing in Multimedia Programming Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Final Year Subjects:
Database Management Systems Object Oriented Programming Computer Networks Multimedia Programming Digital Media Entrepreneurship
Final Year Project: Developed a football prediction website using Ruby on Rails.
Skills Profile
Programming: Java, C#, Actionscript, HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP Design Tools: Director, Flash, Photoshop, 960 grid system, Dreamweaver Databases: MySQL Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Final Year Project B.Sc (Honours)
Developed two blogs in Ruby on Rails and CakePHP No prior knowledge of CakePHP and some of Ruby on rails, but using the understanding of programming principles that had been gained, two fully functioning blogging systems were created A detailed description and screenshots are available at http://xurl.jp/d2q
Final Year Project B.Sc
Developed a social networking football based prediction game. Project was developed using Ruby on rails. A system for the user to log in and leave predictions based on the upcoming premier league fixtures was developed; also the user had a customisable homepage and could comment on other people’s pages and predictions.
References
References and letters of recommendation available on request, please email me at gearoid.garvey@gmail.com.