Director, Mobile Products at The Associated Press
Greater New York City Area
Director, Mobile Products at The Associated Press
Greater New York City Area
Mobile, Strategic Consulting, VC/financing.
(Newspapers industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Head up Mobile News Network and AP Mobile Products
(Newspapers industry)
October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 1 month)
- Co-ordinate group activities around Enterprise software, middleware, software tools, software-as-a-service, travel technology and translation software.
- Assist and advise Irish software start-ups on US market.
- Raise awareness of Ireland as destination for sourcing high quality software.
- Project manage 1:1 client engagements.
- Thought leadership around and research into new market opportunities for Irish companies.
- Manage IP licensing networks.
- Manage comprehensive funding and executive network.
- Support clients in networking, business development, sales and marketing activities.
(Think Tanks industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
- Supported Professor Eli Noam, Director of CITI, Member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee.
- Contributed to development of "Media Concentration", a book focusing on the economic factors leading to concentration within the information technology and media industries.
- Assisted in organizing industry-focused conferences on wireless technologies and media concentration.
- Prepared material for Columbia Business School MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications and Information.
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2003 — June 2003 (4 months)
- Shadowed digital media account management and technology teams on pitches, client meetings, and project management meetings.
- Interviewed key management on benchmarking methodologies and website best-practice methodologies.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LAZ; Investment Management industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
- Managed marketing material processes (including over 150 monthly and quarterly performance reports, client sales pitches, proposals, marketing presentations, supporting trade-fair marketing materials and white-papers).
- Renovated an electronic asset database and updated the electronic marketing materials work-flow system to facilitate fund management teams as well as consultants working with both institutional and private clients.
MSc , Information Systems (Honors with Distinction) , 2002 — 2003
- Areas of study: Information Systems; Information Systems Management and Strategy; Systems Development; Information Technology: Issues and Skills; Implementation and Use, Security in Information Systems for Organizations; Interpretations of Information.
- Dissertation: “The Practice and Impact of Benchmarking in the UK Government”, focused on the effects of developing public sector website benchmarking methodologies. Developed in conjunction with a summer placement at the UK Crown Office’s Central Office for Information. Accepted for publication in Information Systems Journal for 2007.
BSc , Biological Sciences (Honours) , 1996 — 2000
- Areas of study: Biometrics; Molecular Genetics; Mechanisms of Evolution; Genes and Gene Action; Cellular Metabolism and Regulation; History of Medicine.
brainstorming with friends, building information systems, coffee and coffee makers, theatre, reading novels, writing, poetry, listening to music (jazz, classical), fly fishing, researching and thinking about computer human interactions, hot new technologies, information systems research, philosophy of information, cooking for friends.
Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), NYSIA, NY Tech Meetup, Executive Council,
New London Writer’s Poetry Award, 2003