Paul Browne

Paul Browne

Senior Development Advisor at Enterprise Ireland

Ireland

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Education
  • University College Dublin
  • Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
  • University of Ulster
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Paul Browne’s Summary

Interested in helping companies who are solving business problems using IT. Over 15 years experience on projects in Ireland , UK , US and Europe.

Paul Browne’s Specialties:

Creating Business and Technical Solutions.

Paul Browne’s Experience

  • Senior Development Advisor

    Enterprise Ireland

    (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

    Business advisor to software companies in the Finance and Enterprise Sector

  • Author

    Packt Publishing

    (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

    2008 — 2009 (1 year )

    Author : JBoss Drools Business Rules

  • CEO

    FirstPartners.net

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1999 — July 2008 (9 years )

    Technical Director, with additional responsibilty for pre-sales and Client Solution Delivery.

    Have carried out projects for the following clients through FirstPartners.net:

    IBM
    Red Hat / JBoss
    VHI
    O2
    IIB Bank
    Version 1 Software
    Aer Lingus
    Merck (Brussels)
    Belgacom (Brussels)
    ACC (New Zealand)
    Siemens
    Logica
    Permanent-TSB

  • Senior Developer

    IBM

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

    2008 — June 2008 (less than a year)

    Senior Developer working on the Open Source Mifos Micro finance Project

  • Senior Consultant (Assigned)

    VHI

    (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2007 — 2008 (1 year )

    (Assignment via Curach Consulting)

  • Author (Online)

    O'Reilly & Associates

    (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

    2004 — 2008 (4 years )

  • Principal Services Specialist (Contract)

    O2 Ireland

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  • Principal Services Specialist (Contract)

    02 Ireland

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  • Consultant

    Ward Solutions

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  • Senior Consultant

    IIB Bank

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

    2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  • Senior Consultant (Assigned, Part Time)

    Version 1 Software

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2006 (6 years )

  • Senior Consultant

    Aer Lingus

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AERL; Airlines/Aviation industry)

    2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  • Technical Lead

    Vision

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

  • Senior Consultant

    Merck

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MRK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    2002 — 2003 (1 year )

  • Senior Consultant

    Belgacom

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

    2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

  • Senior Consultant

    ACC

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

    2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

  • Senior Consultant

    Siemens

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SI; Financial Services industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  • Senior Consultant

    Logica

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LOG; Telecommunications industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  • Senior Consultant

    Permanent-TSB

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

    2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  • Team Lead

    Case New Holland

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CNH; Computer Software industry)

    1999 — 2000 (1 year )

    Team Lead with responsibilities for recruiting / managing Internet / E-Commerce Team.

  • IT Consultant - Procurement & Sales

    Dell

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)

    January 1997 — January 1999 (2 years 1 month)

    IT Consultant with wide ranging brief to implement projects to improve Dell Ireland's Sales / reduce inventory levels.

  • Project Manager

    BT

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

    September 1994 — January 1997 (2 years 5 months)

    Project Manager ensuring the delivery of Internal and External (Outsourced) IT and Technical Projects.

Paul Browne’s Education

  • University College Dublin

    MSC , Advanced Software Engineering , 2004 — 2006

  • Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply

    mCIPS , Project and Supply Chain Mangement , 1994 — 1997

  • University of Ulster

    Ba Hons , European Business Studies with French , September 1990 — May 1994

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Paul Browne’s Interests:

Kayaking , Surfing , Travel, New Technology

Paul Browne’s Groups:

Plato - Business Networking for Northern and Republic of Ireland
Irish Computer Society - ICS
Irish Internet Association - IIA, Irish Java Technologies Conference, Trigraph, Irish Web Technologies Conference

  •    Friends of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Enterprise Ireland
  •    Business Process Management Professionals Group
  •    Web2Ireland.org
  •    Venture Capital and Private Equity Ireland
  •    OpenCoffee Ireland
  •    Digital Network IE
  •    The Digital Future Group
  •    IT Ireland
  •    Irish people in the Public Sector
  •    Novation EPP
  •    Innovation Ireland

Paul Browne’s Honors:

Msc Advanced Software Engineering
m CIPS
BA European Business and French
Sun Certified Java Architect
Sun Certified Java Developer
MCSD C# XML and Webservices
MCSD SQL Server

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