Donal McNamara B. Eng (Hons)
 Mayorstone Drive, Mayorstone, Limerick 
 +353-87-9292022  donal_mcnamara@eircom.net
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PROFILE
An experienced engineer with strong business acumen accumulated over 15 years working in owner managed, indigenous and multinational companies. Experience includes software development, electronic hardware, production line yield analysis, provision of value added solutions to customers, marketing to define successful new products, relationship building with target industries through international visits and industry specific market research.
In addition, strengths include project management illustrated through the on-time, on-cost development and delivery of various products across a range of companies which also included addressing customer product scheduling issues and working with various departments and production plants to resolve delivery issues. This work involves supervision of teams both directly and indirectly motivating the team to produce maximum efficiency. Most recently, completed a postgraduate
Diploma in Software Engineering from NUIG.
CAREER SUMMARY
Cakecoded, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick
(http://www.cakecoded.com)
Cakecoded is a start-up web development company that provides professional programming services for the CakePHP framework.
Web Developer 2013-2014
The majority of my work has been spent on back-end programming with some incursions into frontend coding. The main programming language is PHP and the framework is CakePHP. All coding is done in object oriented design using the MVC pattern. Other skills that I use day-to-day are HTML,
MySQL, Git and Subversion. Occasionally I use Javascript and CSS.
McNamara Poultry, Glin, Co. Limerick 2010-2012
Family Poultry farm
CleanHomes, Ballynagool, Croagh, Co. Limerick
Cleanhomes was a start-up company which specifically targeted the domestic cleaning market in the mid-west region. It supplied fully equipped, highly trained professional teams that provided affordable exceptional cleaning for its customers’ homes.
Owner Manager 2007-2008
Manage the day-to-day operations of the company including the following
Analog Devices BV, Raheen Business Park, Limerick
Analog Devices, Inc. is a world-leading semiconductor company specializing in high-performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs).
Senior Applications Engineer 1998 – 2007
Participate actively in and lead the customer engagement activities associated with the development of product concepts through to product definition

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Product Engineer 1996-1998
Optimise yield at various testing stages and minimizing cost of scrap for products fabricated at the site
Interbalco BV, Shannon Industrial Estate, Co. Clare
Snap On corporation (previously Interbalco, BV) is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of tool and equipment solutions for professional tool users. Product lines in Shannon included automotive wheel balancers and wheel alignment systems for the automotive industry.
Hardware Development Engineer 1993-1995
Architect, define, and design digital/analog systems. Propose design solutions, prove concepts, evaluate new technologies, and provide design trade-offs
Bio-Medical Research
Bio Medical Research Ltd is a privately owned company established 30 years ago and specialising in the design, manufacture and marketing of muscle exercisers. The two product brand names are
Neurtech and Slendertone.
Development Engineer 1991-1993
Plan and complete process development and manufacturing support development projects
EDUCATION
National University of Ireland, Galway
Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering (1 st Class) 2012 - 2013
Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland
Bachelor of Engineering in Microelectronics (Honours, 2.1) 1988 – 1991
Limerick Institute of Technology
1988
NCEA Diploma in Electronics 1985
Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering Skills (GPA = 3.93)
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C, Java SE, J2EE, CORBA, Eclipse, NetBeans, UML, Agile, Distributed Systems, SQL, GlassFish, SOAP,
XML, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, MVC.
DRIVING LICENSE
Full
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