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Cathal Lavelle

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A budding software engineer entering into the world of tech. After studying Business and French in Trinity College Dublin and subsequently working in the property sectorfor a few years, I decided to change my career trajectory. My career to date has largely circled around finding creative solutions to unique client issues.

In my short career, I have managed multiple small teams and aided with process implementation and training. I have juggled completing a part-time Masters in Human Resources management while working full-time. My experience with high value clients and people management has taught me how to be creative as well as invaluable stakeholder management skills. I am excited to see how I can utilise these skills on my new journey as a software engineer

I believe in following good TDD principles and I look forward to applying this in my next role as a junior software engineer.

Projects

Name Description Tech/tools
Book-swap A booksharing app which was created to allow members of the public to share books that they have finished reading and collect other books they are interested in. This project was developed in an agile team of 6 over a 2 week period. MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS). Test suite: Mocha Chai, Enzyme, Cypress.
Acebook A social media app that was created to simulate facebook. It was created to allow users to login and share posts with one another React and Vanilla JS for frontend, Ruby on Rails for backend, Postgresql for database storage. Testing with Rspec.
Bank tech test A tech test completed to demonstrate clean code quality and good OO principals Ruby, testing with Rspec

Experience

Makers Academy (November 2020 - February 2021)

Software Development Student

  • Spent 16 weeks learning software development techniques by working in agile teams to craft software.
  • Have developed strong OOD and TDD practices.
  • Built projects using multiple tech stacks which were often self-taught.

Houst (October 2019 - July 2020)

Supplier Management Team Manager

  • Striking up partnerships and contracts with new suppliers to improve our operations and reduce overheads for the business and our clients.
  • Managing all supplier relations for Irish operations.
  • High volume recruitment and performance management of a team of 40+ housekeepers.

Houst (March 2018 - October 2019)

Client Success Team Manager

  • Leading projects surrounding process improvements and best practice.
  • Ensuring my team are reaching growth and customer satisfaction metrics.
  • Responsible for revenue maximisation of our Irish clientbase.

Skills

Working in teams

  • With my latest employer, my teams always operated on a basis of shared workload. I am very adept and comfortble in working in these environments where collaboration is the cornerstone of productivity.
  • I was in charge of designing and implementing a new workflow for all teams in my department to help better our organisational capability to collaboate and share work more seemlessly.

Working under Pressure

  • My latest role was in live operations, and I am comfortable dealing with a queue of time sensetive issues.
  • My ability to work under pressure is based on prioritisation and my ability to break down problems and think logically.

Problem-solving

  • I am comfortable in taking complex issues and breaking them down into small mangeable tasks.
  • My ability to prioritise and think rationally allows me to to follow a systematic process when coming up against problems or bugs.

Education

Makers Academy (November 2020 - February 2021)

  • OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD
  • Agile/XP
  • Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
  • RSpec, Jasmine

National College of Ireland (September 2018 - August 2020)

  • M.A. in Human Resources Management
  • 2.1
  • Studied at night while working fulltime.

Trinity College Dublin (September 2013 - May 2017)

  • B.B.S Lang in Business studies and French
  • 2.1
  • Recipient of the First Class Book prize for academic excellence 2016.

Personal Achievements

  • Three time National swimming champion
  • Completed a mediation course with the Mediators Institute of Ireland
  • Have quafifications as a sailing and swimming instructor

Hobbies

  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Classical Music
  • Writing (take a look at my blog)
  • Learning about algorithmic complexity (beginner)

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