Donal Doyle

Current

Senior Engineer at Idiro Technologies

Past

Commercialisation Manager at University College Dublin
Software Testing Consultant at Commission on Electronic Voting

Education

Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

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Donal Doyle’s Experience

Senior Engineer

Idiro Technologies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

- Viral marketing and social network analysis for the telecoms market
- Analysis of call data to develop and enhance churn prediction models
- Data manipulation, cleaning and feature selection
Evaluation and reporting on developed models
- Streamlining and automation of operational processes
Managing research projects and customer engagements
- Initiated Idiro’s involment in the establishment of the Clique Research Cluster Actively involved in the securing of €3.5m in funding from SFI for Clique
- Clique is a joint academic and industry research initiative involving UCD, DERI, IBM, Idiro and Norkom
Commercialisation Manager

University College Dublin

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 6 months)

- Development of a prototype on-line shopping tool for navigating through vast product spaces
- Commercial engagements with on-line retailers and platform providers
- Senior Researcher on collaboration project with a major multinational flavour and fragrance company
Software Testing Consultant

Commission on Electronic Voting

(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 10 months)

I was contracted as part of a team, by the Commission on Electronic Voting, to test the proposed Nedap/Powervote electronic voting system that was to be introduced for Irish elections. In this role I performed black box testing on the counting software and an investigation of potential vulnerabilities of the system. Our testing demonstrated flaws both in the counting software and in the overall system and were important contributions to the commission’s final report to the government.

Donal Doyle’s Education

Trinity College, Dublin

Ph. D. , Data Mining, Case-based Reasoning , 2002 — 2005

Research was based on machine learning techniques with primary focus on generating explanations and estimating confidence in Case Based Reasoning (CBR) systems.

My Ph.D. research also involved:
• Development of a Java and XML based framework for implementing CBR and Neural Network systems as part of a group project.
• Design and implementation of a CBR based decision support system that recommends if a child suffering from Bronchiolitis should be admitted or discharged from hospital. This system is currently in use by the Emergency Department, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, California.
• Gained experience at making presentations in front of colleagues, medical experts from California and at conferences with international audiences.
• Published papers in proceedings of international conferences and journals and so further developed my written communication skills.
Trinity College, Dublin

B.A., B.A.I. , Computer Engineering , 1998 — 2002

• Elected Scholar of Trinity College based on examinations in March 2000. Scholars are entitled to the following emoluments and privileges for five years: Campus accommodation free of charge, Full remission of annual fees, Commons (Evening meal) free of charge, Annual Salary
• Based on Leaving Certificate results received Entrance Exhibition Award on entering Trinity College which entitled campus accommodation for second year of college
• Successfully completed a major computer based project entitled ‘Automated Web Based TV Programme Recorder’.