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.

1. BRENDAN MCKENNA –
ADDING CAPABILITY
Case Studies
Updated 02/01/19

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

3. TRAVELWIN

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

5. VODAFONE

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

7. UBANQUITY

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

9. UBANQUITY – MOBILE CORE BANKING

10. 10N2 TECHNOLOGIES

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

12. PICOSOFT RFID
SOLUTIONS

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

16. JINNY
SOFTWARE

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