Current

• Technical Consultant at Navigator Blue

Past

• Sales Representative at Laser Electrical Ltd
• Software Engineer at Ericsson
• Sales Representative at Laser Electrical Ltd

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Education

• Queen's University Belfast

Recommended

3 people have recommended Andrew

Connections

31 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Blog

Summary

Engineering Student with a history of experience in consumer relations and advertising, Freelancing as a Technical Consultant (Jack of all trades)

Currently focused on the Advertising and Marketing possibilities presented by new-media, and delivering maximal ROI for stakeholders.

Also open to Consultation on:
Network Architecture / Wireless Deployment / NAS / Penetration testing.
Graphic / Web Design
General IT Troubleshooting
Event Planning / Advertising
Social Media Analysis

Specialties:

Experience

• Technical Consultant

  Navigator Blue

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Applying my expertise and experience in Social Media Marketing, Web Design, Networking, and Electrical Engineering to the Marketing and Advertising.

• Sales Representative

  Laser Electrical Ltd

  (Retail industry)

  August 2009 — December 2009 (5 months)

  Sales

• Software Engineer

  Ericsson

  (Public Company; ERIC; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Working to streamline the product release cycle from a waterfall style development to a more Agile, incremental system. So far in my work i have reduced release testing time from 3 days to half an hour, with fully automated reporting for a Proprietary client application. Currently moving on to server-side performance benchmarking for multi-gigabyte aggregation applications built on MySQL

• Sales Representative

  Laser Electrical Ltd

  (Retail industry)

  July 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 1 month)

  Consumer Electronics Sales

Education

• Queen's University Belfast

  MEng , Electronics & Software Engineering , 2006 — 2011 (expected)

  Course Content Available from http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/ProspectiveStudents/UndergraduateStudies/pathinfo/?pathCode=HG

  Cliff Notes Version:
  This is a four-year Extended Engineering course. It has been established to provide an adequate supply of well-qualified engineers with an appropriate blend of engineering knowledge and skills in business practice and management.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Representative On Student-Staff Consultative Committee,
  Film Club,
  Queens Radio Club,
  DragonSlayers ( Computer Games Society ),
  Design Editor for The Gown (Independent Student Newspaper)

Additional Information

Websites:

• My Blog

Interests:

Computer Networking, Stability, and Security, Mobile Device Convergence, Human-Machine Interaction, Computational Robotics, Social Media Marketing and Advertising, Web Design, Machine Learning

Groups:

IET Student Member,

•    Irish Linux Users Group
•    Ericsson Former/Current Employees Networking Group (3000+)
•    Google Android
•    Ericsson Global
•    Ericsson Network
•    WiFi Penetration Testers
•    The Institution of Engineering and Technology - IET
•    SC10: SuperComputing 2010 Conference
•    Ericsson Ireland Network
•    Mobile Monday Belfast

Honors: