Ciaran Rooney

Current

CTO at Skimbit
CTO at Skimlinks
Director / Lead Developer at Weeno Ltd

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Past

Lead Developer at Skimbit
Web Developer and System Admin at Realm Communications

Education

Ballyfermot Media College
Dublin City University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ciaran Rooney’s Summary

I developed an interest in media production with my background in Digital Media Engineering at DCU and I also have qualifications in Multimedia Production. I enjoyed working as a freelance developer, developing accessible and standards compliant XHTML and CSS and PHP, MySQL applications before establishing Weeno Ltd. In my current position I work as lead developer and system administrator for one of Ireland's largest communications companies, developing Web, SMS and IVR applications. I also run the development end of Weeno Ltd.

Ciaran Rooney’s Specialties:

Accessible and Standards Compliant XHTML and CSS, PHP and MySQL development, DB admin, SMS and IVR application development.

Ciaran Rooney’s Experience

CTO

Skimbit

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

In 2008, Skimbit launched Skimlinks http://skimlinks.com. It is a service that helps publishers make money from affiliate marketing with no technical or administrative effort. Publishers sign up for free, and add a piece of code to their site template. Then Skimlinks converts URLs on the publisher's site into their respective affiliate link equivalent, on-the-fly. With 6000 merchants, unique support for non-deeplinking merchants, and high conversion rates, Skimlinks is a simple solution for large and small publishers wanting to add an incremental revenue stream with no risk or cost.
CTO

Skimlinks

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

In 2008, Skimbit launched Skimlinks http://skimlinks.com. It is a service that helps publishers make money from affiliate marketing with no technical or administrative effort. Publishers sign up for free, and add a piece of code to their site template. Then Skimlinks converts URLs on the publisher's site into their respective affiliate link equivalent, on-the-fly. With 6000 merchants, unique support for non-deeplinking merchants, and high conversion rates, Skimlinks is a simple solution for large and small publishers wanting to add an incremental revenue stream with no risk or cost.
Director / Lead Developer

Weeno Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Director and Lead Developer for new Multimedia company, Developing PHP, MySql, XHTML, CSS, ActionScript, AJAX, also Flash and 3D development.
Lead Developer

Skimbit

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)
Web Developer and System Admin

Realm Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2006 — July 2008 (2 years )

IT Head of Dept.. Maintaining IVR, SMS and Web servers and developing new online web service's for Realm. Responsible for keeping this medium sized communication's company services online.

Ciaran Rooney’s Education

Ballyfermot Media College

Multimedia , Multimedia and Web Development , 2004 — 2006

Final Year Project was developing a full shopping cart in PHP/MySql
Dublin City University

B Eng , Digital Media Engineering , 2002 — 2004

Activities and Societies:

DCU Snowboarding - Co-Founder,
Students Union