David Cotter

Current

CTO at IGOpeople

Past

CTO/Architect at Alatto Technologies Ltd
Software Contractor at E*TRADE Financial
Principal Architect at betmart.com

Sontware Consultant at Credo
Senior Software Engineer at DreTec
Senior Software Engineer at ISOCOR

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Education

University College Dublin
University College Dublin

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Industry

Computer Software

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David Cotter’s Summary

Software developer and manager delivering enterprise products to Vodafone, O2, KPN, Orange and T-Mobile

• Development
• Presales/Sales
• Project Management/Team Leading
• Technical Architecture
• Agile development
• Managing outsourced projects

David Cotter’s Specialties:

• Java/J2EE/Spring/Hibernate
• Postgres/MySQL/Oracle
• Ruby on Rails/Prototype/Web2.0
• J2ME/iPhone/Mobile Internet
• Test driven development

David Cotter’s Experience

CTO

IGOpeople

(Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

IGOpeople.com – A Web 2.0 B2C social network built on Ruby on Rails

• Responsibility for realisation of IGOpeople.com
• Responsibility for choice of development technologies and methodologies
• Identification and hiring of key talent
• Development with Ruby on Rails/JavaScript prototype/CSS
• Successfully launched in December 08
• Hosting/uptime/support
CTO/Architect

Alatto Technologies Ltd

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — March 2008 (8 years 3 months)

Mobile software company delivering bother server and mobile client applications to mobile operators.

• Responsible for the architecture, development and delivery of Alatto’s MMS server products
• Delivered enterprise software to Vodafone, O2, KPN, Orange and T-Mobile.
• Managed development of 4 major products and many minor projects
• Development with Java/J2EE/J2ME/Spring/Hibernate
• Developed several J2ME apps for 3/Vodafone and ROK (roknet.com)
• Responsibility for h/w sizing, hosting, scaling and uptime
• Identification and hiring of key talent
• Active in sales process
• Managing outsourced projects
Software Contractor

E*TRADE Financial

(Public Company; ETFC; Financial Services industry)

December 1999 — March 2000 (4 months)

J2EE/EJB/C/C++/Oracle development on the ETrade online stock trading web site.
Principal Architect

betmart.com

(Internet industry)

January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

A start-up internet company providing a person-to-person betting exchange. Responsible for design, development and team leading of J2EE/Oracle web, wap and SMS application where users bet with each other on sporting events (like BetFair). Brought system from concept to live production in less than six months, to become the first of its kind in the world. Betmart evolved into Alatto Technologies in 2001.
Sontware Consultant

Credo

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

September 1998 — May 1999 (9 months)

Banking Server project using OO/C++/Unix/CORBA/Informix/SQL
Responsible for trouble shooting and delivering crucial multithreaded banking application on NT which was ported from a Unix multi process application and had to get to the market quickly.
Senior Software Engineer

DreTec

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Senior Software Engineer

ISOCOR

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1993 — December 1998 (5 years 4 months)

ISOCOR’s email gateway servers translate email from disparate systems to X.400 and SMTP Internet mail. I was responsible for the complete design and development of cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail systems on a variety of platforms including NT, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Stratus in C and a Management component in C++/MFC on NT.

Responsible for managing, porting and delivering ISOCOR’s EDI gateway to AIX OSI/6000 for IBM in Rome in C.