Cirriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name Ciarán Joesph James Madden
Address Scairt, Clonmacken, Caherdavin, Limerick, Ireland.
Date of Birth 12th May 1976
eMail cmadde@ctp.com, ciaranm@skynet.ul.ie

Education

Primary Scoil Chriost Rí, Caherdavin, Limerick. 1980 - 1988
Secondary Ard Scoil Rís, N.C.R, Limerick. 1988 - 1993
University University of Limerick, Plassy Technological Park, Limerick, Co. Limerick, Ireland. 1993 -1997

Current Course of Study

Bachelor of ( Computer ) Engineering at the University of Limerick

Work Experience

Company Name Address Duration of employment Work Performed
ICL ITCentre South County Buisness Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 June 1995 - February 1996 Porting of ODB-II from Solaris to HP-UX, Unixware, NX/7 and AIX. Maintaince and extension of remote ODB-II demo. UNIX and Windows system administration.
CRH Hannover, Germany June 1996 - October 1996 Development of an accounting package to process and display on a PC database information taken from a remote AS/400 machine.
ECE Department University of Limerick Feburary 1997 - May 1997 Tutorial and lab assistant for module CE4206 Operating Systems 2 ( UNIX ).
Cambridge Technology Partners Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 1997 - Developer

Computer Skills

Programming C, C++, ObjectPascal, HTML, Pascal, Visual Basic, Java, ODQL, SQL, SDL, 8086 and z80 Assembler.
Operating Systems MS-DOS, Windows( 3.X, 95 and NT4.0 ), UNIX( Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, NX/7 and XWindows ) and AS/400.
Packages Delphi, MS-Visual Basic, MS Office, MathCad. Xemacs, SDT, Perl, DB4, Paradox, Borland VC++.

Interests

I enjoy and often take part in table quizzes in the University and in Limerick. I'm a member of the Quiz Society and was its President in 1994/95. I'm a fully paid up member of the Computer Soc, known as Skynet, this is it's web stite. I'm also a founding member of the Alochol Appreciation Society.
I speak reasonably good French and German and enjoy travelling to visit other countries, I hope to work abroad again in the future.
Other interests include Reading - anything from Asimov to Irvine Welsh or Aldous Huxley to Patrick Kavanagh, Music - as before Underworld to Beck or Jesus and Mary Chain to Leonard Cohen, and of course going out.

Achievments

Captain of the Ard Scoil Rís school quiz team whch won the national television show 'Blackboard Jungle' and the Cork Examiner Munster schools quiz in 1992/93.
Member of the University of Limerick team which reached the quarter finals of the intervarsity quiz show 'Challenging Times' in 1995/96.


Links to sites mentioned above

My more detailed CV is available for download in simple Text or in MS Word 6.0+ format.