| O'Grady's restuarant |
| O'Grady's is a busy family owned b & b cum restaurant on the road into Waterford city. The business has a steady international clientele, so they needed a robust booking system to keep track of it all. I created a Visual Basic application with a graphical calendar interface, hiding any complexity away from the user. |
| South East Computers |
| South East Computers was a computer retail outlet in Dungarvan, County Waterford, selling both components and full systems. After several issues with double-billing from suppliers, they decided it was time to implement a full inventory system, and I was contraced to develop the solution. I used Visual Basic for the system, and delivered it in 3 months, along with comprehensive training. |
| C-teck Manufacturing |
| An offshoot of South East Computers, C-teck was started to service a contract from a start-up delivering internet kiosks throughout Ireland. After the success of the inventory system for South East Computers, C-teck needed their own stock control system, which I duly provided, again using Visual Basic running against a database. |
| Bausch & Lomb : IT support dept. |
| After working for several months in-house to update the company's website, I was given the contract to develop a helpdesk system for the IT Support department. This needed to be accessible from anywhere within the plant, where ever problems might occur. The system went through two iterations, starting with a Delphi solution, but then moving to an Internet application using ASP. This provided better access from anywhere in the plant, without the need for any setup at individual workstations. The ASP runs against SQL server at the back-end. |
| Bausch & Lomb |
| During the course of my time sub-contracting in Bausch & Lomb, I also worked on a project for the Personnel department, creating a time management system. This was intended to be used as a record of the issues dealt with by clerical employees during the course of the day. It used the same ASP / Internet Server system as the Helpdesk system, and set up accounts for each of the 200 employees scheduled to use the system. Training and consultation was also part of the development process, and involved updating software installations at users workstations. |
| Clan McGrath Website |
www.clan-mcgrath.com
A website commissioned by John McGrath, this site aims to create an online community for McGraths all over the world. |
| Tom O'Brien Construction Website |
www.tomobrienconstruction.com
A website commissioned by Tom O'Brien, proprietor of Tom O'Brien Construction |
| Meadowcourt Homes Website |
www.meadowcourthomes.com
Meadowcourt Homes are a builder of quality homes in the South East of Ireland |
| Shefflin's Pub |
Shefflin's is a very popular Public House situated near the center of Waterford City (Ireland.)
The Proprietor of Sheff's at the time, Mr. Paul Kennedy wanted a site that appealed to his local regulars, and also to the very large student population of Waterford.
The site went live in October of 2000. Mr Kennedy has since sold the pub. (May 2003) |
| Seirbhisi Mac Leinn Teo. |
www.sml.ie
Seirbhisi Mac Leinn Teoranta is the commercial services arm of the Students' Union of Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland).
SmL Teo. is the Irish for Student Services Limited.
The website for SmL Teo contains information about the company, and also serves as the home for the Institute Examiner, the college newspaper of WIT.
The company was disolved in 2002 by the Directors.
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| WIT Students' Union |
www.witsu.com (no longer active)
The Waterford Institute of Technology Students' Union has been in existence since 1976, and has had a number of websites since 1997, all created and maintained by myself.
The first website went live in January 2000, and was superceded by a new version in 2001 when the site was moved to a new web host. The new site was fully databased, through PHP and MySQL, and allowed update through friendly web-based forms.
The site served the 6,000 members of WITSU with relevant information on their Union, along with a wealth of information on welfare matters, such as accommodation and health. It also provided access to the Institute Examiner, the newspaper I edited for the Students' Union. After leaving the Union in the Summer of 2002, I no longer maintain the website. |
| South Eastern Health Board |
| The South Eastern Health Board needed work done on a number of annual reports and documents, assing them to their website. This involved a week or so of off-site work, and then a day on-site updating the organisation's intranet server. |
| Waterford Institute of Technology |
| I was webmaster for a European Union Socrates Project exploring the potential of Open Distance Learning for nearly two years. I developed the web site used by the research partners, which included teams from Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and England. My work also involved testing different ODL technologies and implementing demonstrations, as well as providing comprehensive documentation of the process. |
| Direct Debt Recovery Ltd. |
I created a website for this Irish debt recovery company operated by Andrew Byrne and David McGarry.
Visit the site at directdebtrecovery.com |
| Martin Cullen - Fianna Fail |
| Martin Cullen is a Fianna Fail TD, and wanted an advertising campaing run on the outdoor display screen I designed for, to coincide with his electoral campaign. The campaign was successful, and I ended up doing a number of adverts for Minister Cullen. |
| Ogilvey & Maher |
I was contracted through Ogilvey & Maher on behalf of their clients to design a series of 4 adverts.
The video advertisements were for the new Superquinn store, which opened on November 1st in Kilbarry, Waterford. |
| Bolands Waterford |
Bolands Waterford is a major seller of new & second-hand cars in the South East region, and is main dealer for BMW and Mazda.
The company wanted to attract attention to its scrappage deals, which allowed for attractive trade-in deals on used cars.
Bolands change their adverts on a regular basis, focusing on specific deals and offers.
The company has placed more than 6 different adverts on the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen, all of which I have created. |
| Declan Walsh Financial Services |
Declan Walsh owns Pikewood Advertising Ltd., which runs the Display Screen I produce the video adverts for.
He also runs a Financial Services Company, for which I designed two 25 second advertisements. |
| Sony Centre Waterford |
The Sony Centre is situated in the Tramore Road Business Park.
In order to raise awareness of their presence, and various of the product lines they carried, they ran tow advertisements, both 25 seconds long.
The video segments carried on the Sony Go Create theme. |
| Club LA Nightclub |
Club LA is a popular nightclub in Waterford which caters to both students and locals.
The Club has taken a number of spots over the last two years, and as the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen actually hangs on the exterior of the nightclub, how more immediate and relevant could the advert's be? |
| Preachers Nightclub |
| Preachers Nightclub is situated in the heart of the city, and has uses the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen to advertise various special events. |
| Marlborough Group |
The Marlborough Group are a Recruitment Agency which operates all over Ireland.
In order to enhance awareness of their services, they took out a 25 second advert with the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen. |
| Rigney Dolphin |
www.rigneydolphin.ie
Rigney Dolphin is a recruitment agency in Waterford city, and wanted to attract potential clients by advertising exactly how many jobs they had at any given time.
Thus the video advert led with 'XX jobs available from Rigney Dolphin.' |
Rapid Cabs |
| A taxi firm in Waterford, the Rapid Cabs office happened to be just yards away from the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen, so they advantage of that fact, and flashed their contact number on their advert. |
| Irish Spanish Properties Ltd. |
Irish Spanish Properties Ltd. sells properties in Spain to Irish buyers, and as well as a number of seminars and conferences, they decided to add the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen to their marketing campaign.
The timing of the advert was fortuitous, as Winter was well and truly established, and their advert was showing sunny, sandy beaches and idyllic locations. |
| Mo's Fish & Chip Shop |
| Situated right underneath the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen, Mo's is perfectly placed to make the best use of the screen, and has an advert playing from day one. |
| K Recipe Chicken |
| Situated right beside the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen, K Recipe Chicken is perfectly placed to make the best use of the screen, and has an advert playing from day one. |
McInerney's Builders |
| A major construction company in Waterford, McInerney's wanted to advertise a new and much sought after housing development. |
| Morris Builders & Providers |
| One of the leading Builders suppliers in Waterford, Morris' used Pikewood Advertising Video Screen to give customers an idea of where they were situated. |
| AOL |
www.aol.com
America On Line operates a major call cenrtre from Waterford city, and is constantly on the lookout for new staff.
Various recruitment campaigns have been run on the Pikewood Advertising Video Screen. |
| Pikewood Advertising |
Pikewood Advertising runs the Video Screen on which the majority of the adverts featured on this page are destined to be played on.
I have done a large number of short promotional segments for playing on the screen in between adverts, as well as two VHS showreels for sending to potential clients, and giving them an idea of our capabilities. |
| Iarnroid Eireann |
| Irish Rail operates the rail services in Ireland, and they wanted to push their advantages to potential customers, so I took a 30 minute internal corporate promotional video, and edited it down to 30 seconds of video and new overlaid messaging. |
| Esat Digifone Centre |
| A new agent of one of the Mobile phone operators in Ireland opened in the City Square shopping centre, and wanted to advertise special promotional offers. |
| Hewden Communications |
| A rapidly expanding mobile phone retail chain in Waterford, the company wanted to advertise the opening of its new stores. |
| Compustore |
www.compustore.ie
The major Irish computer retail company had just re-opened it's Waterford store, full refurbished and enlarged.
The company wanted to make people aware of the makeover and relaunch. |
| Mulligan's Pharmacy |
I have created more than five video adverts for the Mulligans Pharmacy group, which has five outlets in Waterford. |
| Seirbhisi Mac Leinn Teo. |
www.sml.ie
Seirbhisi Mac Leinn Teoranta is the commercial services arm of the Students' Union of Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland).
SmL Teo. is the Irish for Student Services Limited.
I designed the company logo and letterhead for SmL Teo., along with the two colour cover of an A4 Refill pad for sale to students at WIT. |
| Vibe fm 107.4 Radio Station |
| As a member of the Radio Programmes Committee, I undertook to create promotional posters for the Waterford Institute of Technology radio station, including promoting individual shows, and also creating an schedule overview visual, showing what was on at any given time, as well as who was presenting. |
| Pikewood Advertising Ltd. |
| Pikewood owns the Large outdoor Video Display screen for which I produce videos, and I also created a company logo and letterhead for the company, along with a full colour A4 rate card and information brochure. |
| WIT Students' Union |
www.witsu.com
The Waterford Institute of Technology Students' Union has been in existence since 1976.
I have worked there since 1995, and in that time I have created between 10 and twenty posters, varying in size from A3 to A0, full colour and commercially printed.
My main job in the Students' Union is to produce the Union newspaper, which is called the Institute Examiner. You can read issues of the Examiner at www.sml.ie/examiner
I am nominally the Editor of the paper, but I also do the layout and design, and write articles, and do the majority of the photographs.
The Union newspaper became the Institute Examiner in 1998. Previous to that it was called the Grapevine, which I also produced. That was A4 and monochrome, and came out every week.
The Institute Examiner is produced in association with the Irish Examiner, and is tabloid in format, with around 6 pages in full colour. It comes out fortnightly, and is distributed free of charge to the 7,000 students and staff of Waterford Institute of Technology.
I have also designed various logos for the Students' Union over the years, responding to the changing focus of the organisation. This has included the graphics for posters and clothing for Rag Week, the charity fund-raising drive by students every year.
The Union produces a Handbook each Summer for the new intake of Freshers', and I have produced three of these. Two have been A4 with full colour sections, and the most recent was super A5. two colour throughout, with full colour inserts.
As well as laying out the handbooks, I have also created the bulk of the content myself.
With the Freshers' handbooks, I have also produced a wall planner, which was distributed to all students. The 'planner was A2 and full colour.
I designed a series of flyers and posters for the Rhythm Room Nightclub during this year, delivering a total of 20 designs, 13 of which were used. |
| Joan Sandford Kirby |
Joan Sandford Kirby is my grandmother, and when she decided to write a book about her life, she came to me to edit and design it.
You can find out more about the book here. |
| Bausch & Lomb |
www.bausch.com
I produced Ergonomic Stretching posters for the Health and Safety Department of Bausch & Lomb Contact Lens, in Waterford City.
The posters were A4 in format, and were hung at every manufacturing workstation. |
| Intacta Print |
| I did several design jobs for Intacta Print over a period of six months, putting together two annual reports. These were for the Waterford County Council and a local football club. Both were full colour glossy productions |
| Town & County Magazine |
A start-up local magazine, Town & County was distributed throughout Waterford County. I did the layout & design on the full colour, glossy magazine for four issues, until the publisher decided they were not going to make any money and gave up. |
| Club LA nightclub |
I produced a series of promotional posters and flyers over a period of two years for this Waterford nightclub.
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| Irish Times |
www.irishtimes.ie
I wrote an article on the proliferation of student Portal sites on the internet in Ireland, and interviewed representatives from the two major players. This was submitted to the Irish Times, and printed in their regular Computimes section, on 2/3 of a broad sheet page. |
| Vibe fm 107.4 Radio Station |
From September 2000 to January 2001, I hosted a daytime talk and information show for one hour a week. This was my first exposure to broadcasting, and I loved it.
I interviewed and talked to at least four people per show, and had regular slots with local talent, including authentic Chinese Astrological readings.
In the course of this time I got to interview Christy Dignam of Aslan, a veteran Irish Rock band. The interview was aired the following day, and also ran in the College newspaper.
Others of note I talked to were the head of the Samaritans in Waterford, and Billy O'Sullivan, who coaches martial arts in the city of Waterford. He was recently on the Late Late Show, in a segment relating to the female bouncers he trains.
I later took on a second hour of a Thursday night, this time concentrating on the DJ aspect, and more into the music. |
