Ian Kavanagh
PhD | Dublin, Ireland | IanKavanaghIE@gmail.com
I am an ambitious, high achieving Director, Manager and Software Engineer with a diverse range of skills. In 2018, I received a PhD in Electronic Engineering. Now, I am studying for a Diploma in Business Finance to take a more active role as a senior manager. I'm a problem solver, always looking to improve processes with a proven track record for implementing changes. I have strong technical skills as well as excellent interpersonal and management skills, which has produced improvements in employee retention and satisfaction. My time management and organisation skills have enabled me to accomplish a lot in my career to date.
Experience
Technical Director
Azyra
2021 - Present
- Developed next-generation cloud companion application with the latest C# and .NET and using Azure Service Bus and Blob Storage
- Lead recruitment of all technical employees
- Manage and develop onboarding plan for all developers
- Create and implement software development practices and standards
- Determine architecture and best technologies for projects
- Investigate new technologies and propose enhancements to existing and new processes to improve efficiencies
- Supervise framework upgrades and obsolete system removal
Technical Recruitment Manager
Azyra
2019 - 2021
- Increased development team size by 100% in 2 years
- Developed onboarding plan and training for all new developers
- Improved retention rate of developers after 6 months from 50% to 90%
Senior Software Engineer
Azyra
2018 - 2021
- Top GitHub Contributor for additions and deletions
- Oversaw and produced modern website for the first time in 20 years
- Designed and developed implementation of HMRC Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) in C#/X#/SQL which received first time approval and praise for ease of use and closeness to HMRC guidelines
- Implemented new Git workflow to improve productivity, trained new and old developers and developed scripts to reduce the time to release
Consultant Web Developer
W39 Services
2011 - 2018
- Consulted on IT issues and solutions including website and business processes to improve the efficiency of management and employees
- Continuously managed and developed company website using HTML and CSS
Consultant Electronic Engineer
BlueBridge Technologies
2014 - 2015
- Produced feasibility studies on viable technologies for new prototypes
- Developed an embedded system and IoT prototypes for client proposals
Support Engineer
SAP Ireland
2013
- Perform SAP services for customers to proactively diagnose potential issues, also provided real-time analysis of customer issues
- Develop automated solutions for manipulating data using ABAP and SQL
Software Engineer
Electric Ireland
2012
- Increased debtors reporting efficiency by 90% through proactive development of a custom VBA tool with input from relevant team
- Built a graphing and monitoring tool to manage complaint resolutions
Credit Control Team member
Electric Ireland
2011
- Communicate with customers who had overdue accounts by phone, email and post as well as help agencies acting on their behalf e.g. SVP
- Process debtor queries and complaint resolutions
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in, Business Finance
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
2022 - Present
PhD in, Electronic Engineering
Dublin City University
2014 - 2018
Thesis: Accurate and efficient full-wave modelling for indoor radio wave propagation
- Awarded fully funded 48 month GOI Postgraduate Scholarship
- 1st in Student Paper Contest at Royal Irish Academy 18th URSI Research Colloquium, Dublin, Ireland, 2017
- 1st in Student Paper Contest at LAPC 2017, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 2017
- 2nd in IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest, Salamanca, Spain, 2015
- Published 2 journal papers and 12 conference papers
B.Eng in, Electronic Engineering
Dublin City University
2010 - 2014
- 1st in class with 1.1, First Class Honours
Skills
Problem Solving
Engineering Management
Team Leadership
Interpersonal Communication
Coaching
People Management
Project Management
Business Process Improvement
Application Development
Programming
Software Engineering
Teamwork
Programming Languages and Tools
Currently use
Previously used
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Interests
When I'm not working or learning new things I can usually be found with my 11 year old puppy like Labrador Toby. At the weekends, I'm travelling to a GAA match or watching another sporting event. I also like building Lego Star Wars spaceships and playing Pokémon and Zelda on the Nintendo Switch.
Publications
Thesis
Journal Papers
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Validation of a volume integral equation method for indoor propagation modelling,” IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 13, pp. 705-713, May 2019.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Full wave indoor propagation modelling using the volume integral equation,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, vol. 84, pp. 171-187, July 2019.
Conference Papers
I. Kavanagh, S. Hussain, and C. Brennan, “A full wave propagation model for indoor wireless communications,” in The 17th Research Colloquium on Communications and Radio Science into the 21st Century, pp. 1-4, 2014.
V. Pham-Xuan, I. Kavanagh, M. Condon, and C. Brennan, “On comparison of integral equation approaches for indoor wave propagation,” in 2014 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Prop- agation in Wireless Communications (APWC), pp. 796-799, 2014.
I. Kavanagh, V. Pham-Xuan, M. Condon, and C. Brennan, “A method of moments based indoor propagation model,” in 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1- 5, 2015.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Computationally efficient extension of a 2d integral equation propagation model to 3d,” in 2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 187-190, 2015.
I. Kavanagh, “Developing a method of moments based indoor propagation model,” in IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), pp. 1-6, 2015.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Preliminary comparison of 3d integral equation based indoor propagation model and ray tracing,” in 2015 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), pp. 350-354, 2015.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “A hybrid 2d to 3d full wave indoor propagation model,” in 2016 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 748-751, 2016.
I. Kavanagh, S. Hussain, and C. Brennan, “Comparison of 3d volume integral equation and ray tracing for indoor propagation modelling,” in 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1-4, 2016.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Analysis of full wave 2d to 3d propagation models and ray tracing for indoor environments,” in Communications and Radio Science for a Smarter World, Royal Irish Academy Research Colloquium, pp. 53-56, 2017.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Preliminary investigation of power delay profile computation from full wave frequency domain indoor propagation model,” in 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), pp. 2242-2245, 2017.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Validation of a volume integral equation method for indoor propagation modelling,” in Loughborough Antennas Propagation Conference (LAPC 2017), pp. 1-5, 2017.
I. Kavanagh and C. Brennan, “Volume integral equation based modelling of in building propagation,” in 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 1498-1501, 2017.