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Brendan McKenna adding capability
- 1. BRENDAN MCKENNA – ADDINGCAPABILITY Case Studies Updated 02/01/19
- 2. CASE STUDIES TravelWinGroup – SIM cards & eSIMs, solving business problems with IT Vodafone Ireland – Capacity Management Ubanquity – Mobile Core Banking Applications 10n2 Technologies Anti-Messaging System – Fleet Management Tool Picosoft Arete Asset Management System – cutting edge use of RFID Jinny Software – Agile before it was defined
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- 4. TRAVELWIN/ SIM LOCAL–CTO CTO at TravelWin from Feb 2016 to present. Initiated and implemented technical capability in the organisation Analysed Requirements, Designed Solution, Hired Team, Deployed MVP, Proved Commercial Viability Led the implementation of Agile (Scrum, Jira) methods and a DevOps CI/CD platform (Octopus, Jenkins) Recommended & Hired manager for day-to-day IT operations Company bottom line significantly improved as a result Retained for ongoing SIM & eSIM strategic consultancy and network architecting
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- 6. VODAFONE– CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IT Capacity & Simplification Manager Responsible for the right sizing of over 1000 servers and 350 databases Correlated and quantified project system impacts Managed P2V, decommissioning and SLA rationalisation Business Owner for middleware and other system upgrades Managed vendor SLAs and 3rd party support agreements Key contributor to CIO budget management
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- 8. UBANQUITY – MOBILECORE BANKING Consultant Director 2011-2012 Developed base material for all sales collateral Audited security measures Presented at the 2011 Web Summit Prepared detailed proposals for banks
- 9. UBANQUITY – MOBILECORE BANKING
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- 11. 10N2 TECHNOLOGIES Fulfilledoutsourced chief consultant function for 2 years on a project basis Brought product from idea to commercial reality Developed EU Patent on SIM based anti-messaging while driving product Led a team of 7 and realised €1.5m revenues Irish based requirements analysis, design and test Indian based coding
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- 13. PICOSOFT RFID SOLUTIONS Co-Founder, Owner and Director 2005-2008 Multinational Customers including Analog Devices and EMC Responsible for end to end RDCT of cutting edge RFID Asset Management System and Warehouse Management System Partners included Cisco, Motorola and Microsoft LAMP, WAMP, WLAN, GS1/EPCGlobal asset tagging Colour coded asset auditing using handheld RFID Readers Asset track and trace using door based readers, web based interfaces, abstracted middleware and database storage – classic model, view, controller architecture
- 14. PICOSOFT RFID SOLUTIONS1 – RFID BASED AMS AreteAsset Management System Deployed at Analog Devices RFID Based Asset Management System EPCGlobal Standard Passive UHF RFID Technology
- 15. PICOSOFT RFID SOLUTIONS2 - RTLS Proof of Concept with EMC2 and Mojix Lean Sigma proven savings
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- 17. JINNY SOFTWARE ChiefTechnologist from 1999 – 2001 First Irish Employee (number 8 overall) Set up the HQ Software and hardware product design verification Technical Writer for all collateral including detailed technical specifications Technical sales support on many bids and tender responses Attendance and presentation at trade shows and standards bodies meetings Contributed to the sale of the company for €14m in 2001
Editor's Notes
- #18 responsibility for internal IT systems; ; analysis and design of Jinny project management techniques; analysis and design of Jinny product management techniques; company organisation and procedures analysis and design; ;.