This document provides case studies and details on Brendan McKenna's experience in various roles related to IT and technology. It describes his work as CTO at TravelWin Group implementing SIM cards and eSIM solutions, as capacity management lead at Vodafone Ireland, as consultant director for Ubanquity on mobile core banking applications, fulfilling an outsourced chief consultant role for 10n2 Technologies, co-founding Picsoft RFID Solutions to develop RFID asset management systems, and as chief technologist for Jinny Software.
2. CASE STUDIES
TravelWin Group – SIM cards & eSIMs, solving business problems with IT
Vodafone Ireland – Capacity Management
Ubanquity – Mobile Core Banking Applications
10n2 Technologies Anti-Messaging System – Fleet Management Tool
Picosoft Arete Asset Management System – cutting edge use of RFID
Jinny Software – Agile before it was defined
4. TRAVELWIN/ SIM LOCAL– CTO
CTO at TravelWin from Feb 2016 to present.
Initiated and implemented technical capability in the organisation
Analysed Requirements, Designed Solution, Hired Team, Deployed MVP, Proved
Commercial Viability
Led the implementation of Agile (Scrum, Jira) methods and a DevOps CI/CD platform
(Octopus, Jenkins)
Recommended & Hired manager for day-to-day IT operations
Company bottom line significantly improved as a result
Retained for ongoing SIM & eSIM strategic consultancy and network architecting
6. VODAFONE– CAPACITY MANAGEMENT
IT Capacity & Simplification Manager
Responsible for the right sizing of over 1000 servers and 350 databases
Correlated and quantified project system impacts
Managed P2V, decommissioning and SLA rationalisation
Business Owner for middleware and other system upgrades
Managed vendor SLAs and 3rd party support agreements
Key contributor to CIO budget management
8. UBANQUITY – MOBILE CORE BANKING
Consultant Director 2011-2012
Developed base material for all sales collateral
Audited security measures
Presented at the 2011 Web Summit
Prepared detailed proposals for banks
11. 10N2 TECHNOLOGIES
Fulfilled outsourced chief consultant function for 2 years on a project
basis
Brought product from idea to commercial reality
Developed EU Patent on SIM based anti-messaging while driving
product
Led a team of 7 and realised €1.5m revenues
Irish based requirements analysis, design and test
Indian based coding
13. PICOSOFT RFID SOLUTIONS
Co-Founder, Owner and Director 2005-2008
Multinational Customers including Analog Devices and EMC
Responsible for end to end RDCT of cutting edge RFID Asset Management System
and Warehouse Management System
Partners included Cisco, Motorola and Microsoft
LAMP, WAMP, WLAN, GS1/EPCGlobal asset tagging
Colour coded asset auditing using handheld RFID Readers
Asset track and trace using door based readers, web based interfaces, abstracted
middleware and database storage – classic model, view, controller architecture
14. PICOSOFT RFID SOLUTIONS 1 – RFID
BASED AMS
AreteAsset Management System
Deployed at Analog Devices
RFID Based Asset Management System
EPCGlobal Standard Passive UHF RFID Technology
15. PICOSOFT RFID SOLUTIONS 2 - RTLS
Proof of Concept with EMC2 and Mojix
Lean Sigma proven savings
17. JINNY SOFTWARE
Chief Technologist from 1999 – 2001
First Irish Employee (number 8 overall)
Set up the HQ
Software and hardware product design verification
Technical Writer for all collateral including detailed technical specifications
Technical sales support on many bids and tender responses
Attendance and presentation at trade shows and standards bodies meetings
Contributed to the sale of the company for €14m in 2001
Editor's Notes
responsibility for internal IT systems; ; analysis and design of Jinny project management techniques; analysis and design of Jinny product management techniques; company organisation and procedures analysis and design; ;.