Ciaran Rooney
CTO at Skimlinks
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://ciaran.ie |
| Industries: | Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile |
| Skills: | AJAX, Architecture, Business, Database Administration, Databases, Design, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Facebook platform, Flash, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, Perl, PHP, Public Relations, Public speaking, Python, Recruitment, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Visas: | EU |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company |
| Schools: | Dublin City University, University of London |
FULL BIO
Ciarán's role as Skimlinks CTO is to lead the technical innovation for Skimlinks' products and the platform's infrastructure. Ciarán relishes this opportunity to develop technologies that enable exceptional experiences for clients and end-users of the Skimlinks technology.
Before joining Skimlinks, Ciarán worked in his native Ireland as Head of IT at one of the country's largest mobile communications companies. He has worked as a freelance developer before establishing Weeno Ltd, a web application and design company.
Ciarán also leads the development team on the hair front, but insists that he can't cut the 'fro. He takes his lunch when everyone else in England is taking tea and enjoys elegantly falling down a mountain while attached to a snowboard.
Ciarán can be found on twitter here: @CiaranR
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Skimlinks |
| Position: | CTO |
| Time period: | June 2008 - Present |
| Employer: | Ciaran Rooney |
| Position: | Freelance Developer and Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2003 - Present |
| Description: | I have worked as a freelance developer for many different clients during my time at college, developing in XHTML and CSS and later in PHP and MySQL. One project of significance that I worked on, initially on a freelance basis and later with Weeno Media was the CMS and design of an Irish language, Dublin radio station, Raidió Na Life. More recently, I have been doing more consulting together with development work. An interesting project that I worked on recently was the design of the TwitterFone site with Sabrina Dent for Pat Phelan. |
| Employer: | Realm Communications |
| Position: | I.T. Head of Department |
| Time period: | March 2007 - May 2008 |
| Description: | Responsible for the maintaining of all the IVR, SMS and web servers for this Large Irish communications company and also oversaw all technical developments and actively developed many large scale web and SMS applications. |
| Employer: | Realm Communications, |
| Position: | Web Developer and Junior System Admin |
| Time period: | August 2006 - March 2007 |
| Description: | A first hire to a new position responsible for developing new online web services there. Other elements of the job were assisting the Senior System Admins in the running of their SMS and IVR services. |
| Employer: | Weeno Media |
| Position: | CEO and Lead Developer. |
| Time period: | May 2005 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Co-Founder and CTO of Weeno Media developing custom CMS and web applications |
EDUCATION
| University: | Dublin City University |
| Degree: | Digital Media, BEng |
| University: | University of London |
| Degree: | Multimedia, BA |
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Skimlinks
Skimbit helps websites to monetise their content in a user-friendly way. Their main product is Skimlinks, which converts existing retailer links on a publisher's site into their affiliate link equivalents. We monetise blogs, forums and content sites.
