Colm Gallagher

Colm Gallagher

Owner, Coralquest Limited and Utilities Consultant

Kilmarnock, United Kingdom

Current
  • Technical Business Analyst at Scottish Power
  • Owner at Coralquest Limited
Past
  • Technical Business Analyst at SCI
  • Software Engineer at Abbey National
  • Analyst/Programmer at Pointer
  • Software Developer at Ryder Systems
Connections
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Industry
Utilities
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Colm Gallagher’s Summary

Computer junkie with just the right amount of business savvy thrown in to avoid the "geek" tag (I think anyway....). Confirmed GTD addict.

Colm Gallagher’s Specialties:

Requirements Management, Technical Business Analysis, Database development (Oracle, SQL Server), Web Programming, C, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP, XHTML, XML, SQL


Colm Gallagher’s Experience

  • Technical Business Analyst

    Scottish Power

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)

    2006Present (4 years )

    Business Analyst responsible for managing Requirements change for Scottish Power's I&C Billing System. Also responsible for migration from Legacy mainframe systems to new Oracle based billing system. Also responsible for defining requirements for and maintaining Data Warehouse.

  • Owner

    Coralquest Limited

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

    March 2000Present (10 years )

    Chief, Cook and Bottle Washer of a busy little IT consultancy. Two other employees: the accountant and the company secretary (aka as Mrs Gallagher).

  • Business Integration Analyst

    BSkyB

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BSY; Broadcast Media industry)

    20042005 (1 year )

  • Web Developer

    Scottish Enterprise

    (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

    March 2004September 2004 (7 months)

    Developed Corporate Training System web system.

  • Technical Business Analyst

    Alba Life

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

    March 2002March 2004 (2 years 1 month)

    Worked on the Alba-Life Contact Environment, an in-house web-based CRM system. In this role, I managed to convince Mainframe developers (you know who you are!!) that XML was a great idea!

  • Technical Business Analyst

    SCI

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2000April 2002 (2 years 2 months)

    Developed supply chain software (migrating from EDI to RosettaNet) for this multinational electronics manufacturer.

  • Software Engineer

    Abbey National

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    May 1998March 2000 (1 year 11 months)

    Worked as an Analyst/Programmer on bonds and pensions administration products for Abbey's Scottish Mutual subsidiary.

  • Analyst/Programmer

    Pointer

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

    April 1997May 1998 (1 year 2 months)

    Developed CCTV Controller software for security industry. Also developed an SMS messaging query system for managing jobs for Alarm Installation Engineers

  • Software Developer

    Ryder Systems

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 1996March 1997 (1 year 3 months)

    Software developer (Clipper/DBASE and VB/Access) on Telecommunications billing systems. Developed Geneva billing system and maintained Atlas billing system.


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Professional Contractors Group

  •    Energy & Utilities Network
  •    Alba Life

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