As I mentioned in the About Me page, I have gone through a rich set of life-skills.
Some of these are:
I'm Co-Founder, Managing Director and Software Engineer at Tekanero Ltd.
- Active since 2013
- Check out my Tankmonitor I did through Tekanero.
![Tekanero Logo](/assets/images/about/tekanero.png)
I completed my B.Sc. Honours Degree at Dublin IT.
- My final year project (DITO) has been a finalist project at the Accenture Technology Solutions and Innovation Award.
- I completed this 4 year degree in just 3 years (by transferring subjects from my Technical High school).
- My results were amongst the top 30% of my class.
- DIT has been named as one of the world's top 100 Universities under 50 years of age.
I'm a hobby Photographer, but I also did a few paid jobs and had some of my images published:
- In 2007 I did product photos to produce a wholesale catalogue for Cathy Prendergast
- I took property photos for the sale of a Villa in Spain
- My images of the IFSC Dublin appear with in the German Magazine Versicherungswirtschaft
- One of my early photos made it into the cover of the local newspaper Heilbronner Stimme
- One of my images has made it onto Wikipedia articles in 12 different languages and onto other articles across the web.
I worked as a Localization Video Game Testerr at Activision.
- You can find me in the credits of some of games (I worked on a few more).
I consider myself as being relatively good at DIY:
- I did camper conversions on vans.
- I renovated a few houses.
- I work with wood, metal.
- I can work with most types of paint.
- I install solar setups and can do most basic wiring in cars.
- I do work on my own cars and motorbikes.
- I do repair work on electronic and IT equipment.
![Making parts for ceiling lights in my dads workshop Making parts for ceiling lights in my dads workshop](/assets/images/about/diy_preview.jpg)
I have worked in a few heavy industries jobs and locations:
- LNG Gas Plants
- Iron Ore Mines (shutdown work at Rio Tinto Mesa J)
- Ports (as yard operator at Woodside and Mermaid Marine)
- Ships (as a TA and Fire watch doing boat mobs on numerous offshore supply vessels)
- I have gotten numerous High Risk work licenses:
- Forklift (I moved heavy loads with a 16t machine)
- Working at Heights
- Confined Space Entry
- Maritime Security Induction
- I assisted with very heavy crane operations (rig mooring anchors, 12t chains, drill pipe)
- I prepared drill pipe and well casing for off-shore gas drilling.
- I prepared items for Quarantine
I have managed a caravan Park
- As temporary Relief Manager at the Dampier Transit Caravan Park
I have experience as a Sales Person.
I have extensive experience of life and travel in across the globe:
- Visiting most major European Cities.
- Riding over 50.000km by motorbike through South East Asia: from Thailand, through Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Back in several trips.
- Driving over 80.000km through Australia covering every state and over 8000km of dirt.
- Living in Thailand for 2 Years and hold a Thai Driving license.
- Learning the basics of the Language and the Thai Alphabet.
- Organizing a motorcycle group where we did weekly outings into Countryside.
- Living in Ireland for 3 years.
- Living in Spain for 6 months.
- Living in the UK 4 months.
- I'm a Permanent Resident in Australia
- I organized the Visa and all processes myself.
- I organized the transport of motor vehicles into the country.