PATRICK MULVANY: CURRICULUM VITAE

Tel: (087) 0766 2701   Mob: 07814 880830   Email: pmulvany@gmail.com

Nationality: British   DOB: 6 October 1972   Married   Full clean driving licence

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Highly experienced ‘heavyweight’ software professional, with a proven track record in managing teams and delivering medium scale business-critical implementations. With broad ranging experience in IT support, programming and web design, capable of quickly adapting to changing environments. A flexible committed individual with excellent communication and troubleshooting skills, looking for an opportunity to be involved in delivering medium to large-scale projects.

SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES

· Team player, with a passion for software development and delivering IT projects.

· Able to work under pressure to time critical deadlines.

· Familiar with and experienced in standard procedures and models for requirement gathering, development, code control, change/configuration management, support and testing.

· Fully trained in a wide set of development languages and tools on a variety of platforms.

· SC Security Cleared.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Databases:            Oracle (7.3/8/8i/9iR2/10g inc high availability, fail-over)                   8 Years

MS SQL Server (6.5/7/2000 inc replication, HA, active-passive, active-active) 8 Years

MySQL (3/4/5 inc stored procedures)                                       6 Years

Sybase, Paradox, Access, Berkley DB

· Operating systems: Unix/Linux (Red Hat/Fedora Core/CentOS/Debian)                       9 Years

Unix/Solaris                                                               7 Years

Windows Server (MCSE Certified NT/2000 inc clustering)                 8 Years

Unix/HP-UX, Windows (9x/NT/2000/XP), Novell (3/4 inc SFT)

• Programming: PL/SQL (inc stored procedures, triggers)                                   8 Years

Transact SQL                                                             8 Years

SQL                                                                        11 Years

Perl (perl 5.003/5.6/5.8 / mod_perl 1&2 / DBI / CPAN / Metadot)          12 Years

ASP                                                                          4 Years

Visual Basic (5/6)                                                         2 Years

C++, Java, PHP, Word/Excel (Macros/VBA)

• Internet: HTML (inc XHTML, DHTML, XML, WML, CSS)                                11 Years

JavaScript (inc Dojo toolkit)                                                8 Years

Apache (1.3/2 on Unix/Solaris, Unix/Linux, Windows 9x/NT/2000)          8 Years

MS IIS (3/4/5)                                                               6 Years

Firewalls (Netscreen 2/3/4, ipchains)                                      5 Years

VoIP (Asterisk/SIP)

• Mail Servers: Unix (Exim/Courier/Sendmail)                                                                               8 Years

NT (Exchange/SLMail)                                                                                             6 Years

• Version Control:     CVS, Subversion, Visual Source Safe (VSS), PVCS               7 Years
• Development Tools:TOAD, OEM, Tora, Dezign
• Graphics Tools:      Dreamweaver, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator
• Other Tools:          Xerox DocuShare, Trillium Discovery

CAREER AND CURRENT POSITION

- Mar 06 – Present Technical Director, Online Galleries

Responsible for leading the development and implementation of web based systems for CINOA and their art and antique dealers.

Main job requirements are team building, recruiting, leading the next phase in system design specification, hands-on leading of development life cycles and production systems support. These cycles included new functionality, increased scalability, legacy and third party integration and redundant support.

- Nov 04 – Mar 06 Senior Application Support Specialist, ATOS Origin

Oracle DBA and PL/SQL specialist working on support and development of a large government project for the Home Office. Performance tuning and optimization of complex overnight batch processes. Third line application support. SC Cleared.

- Jun 04 – Oct 04 Senior Application Support Specialist, Siemens Business Services

Transferred from SBS to ATOS Origin under TUPE regulations. (see above)

- Feb 04 – Jun 04 Database and Web Developer, Limitless Web

PL/SQL and web development. Sites included Carsource, CarsByMail and a number of related car dealership websites.

- Oct 03 – Jan 04  ET Enterprises (Consultancy Contract)

Installation and configuration of office network. Configuration and remote management.

- Apr 01 – Sept 03          IT Development Manager, Tuskerdirect.com

Responsible for leading the architecture and overseeing the ongoing development of mod_perl based on-line vehicle leasing system. Primary designer of PL/SQL financial quotation engine.  Main job requirements were team building, recruiting, leading the next phase in system specification, hands-on leading of development life cycles and production systems support. These cycles included new functionality, increased scalability and redundant support. Managed team consisting of :-  2 DBAs, 4 Programmers, 2 Graphic designers and 2 Testers.  Reporting to IT Director.

- Feb 00 – Apr 01  Team Leader, Torrington Interactive

Managed team of ten software programmers, team and technical lead in the development of online financial system. Responsible for introducing and enforcing code and documentation standards. Led internal response to successful Accenture systems due diligence. Deputised as Head of Development, reporting directly to COO.

- Sep 97 – Feb 00  Senior Developer, Torrington Interactive

Main programmer and database architect on a number of web-based implementations in the Entertainment and Financial sectors, reporting to Head of Development.

- Jun 96 – Sep 97  Network Administrator, Saphir Vegetables

EDUCATION

• 1996 – Present   Open University (PG Dip in Computing for Commerce and Industry)
• 1993 – 1996 City University (studied for BA in Computing)
• 1992 – 1993 Imperial University (one year, Physics)
• 1985 – 1992 Millfield School, Somerset (4 A Levels BBCD)

OTHER INTERESTS

• Open source development (Perl, Metadot), computing history
• Swimming, wellness and nutrition (Independent Herbalife Distributor).
• Being a father and playing an active role in the growth and development of my children.

REFEREES AND TRANSCRIPTS available on request.