Odhran O’Brien has utilised his people & project management skills in the last 10 years, working firstly in a highly technical, customer facing IT environment, delivering large scale solutions to a wide variety of clients. Having both sold & project managed in this area, Odhran showed his entrepreneurial flair, taking the initiative by setting up his own company in the field of advertising. He learned & experienced all the aspects that make up running a business. The company traded successfully from the outset & was sold before moving to Australia with his family in July 2008. He has worked as an Executive Headhunter in Melbourne since his arrival. He has shown an ability to quickly assess what is going on in an environment, an ability to integrate within different management teams, the personality & drive to get on with people at all levels and the capability to deliver solutions – quickly and effectively.

Career History:

Company:                    Brennan Executive.                    www.bexec.info

Position:                      Senior Consultant                      Dates:   10/2009 – Present                     

Responsibilities:          Headhunter dedicated to identifying, attracting and procuring the highest-calibre professionals in the area of Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T).

Company:                    Citak Pty.                                  www.citak.com.au

Position:                      Consultant                                Dates:   11/2008 – Present                     

Responsibilities:          Responsible for recruiting Professional Services candidates within the IT Sector.  Development of business with existing clients & identifying new sources of revenue.       

Company:                    Club Print Media Ltd.                 www.clubprint.ie

Position:                      Owner                                       Dates:   05/2004 – 07/2008                    

Responsibilities:          Day-To-Day running of the company and developing business plans for the long term future of the organisation.    

Achievements:             Successful set up of a company which attained profitability from the outset & maintained steady growth throughout.  Signed up & managed contracts with some of the countries most prominent sporting organisations.  Received official endorsement from each province of the Irish Rugby Union Board.  Recruited & managed commission based staff to work on individual club contracts.  Complied with the appropriate rules & regulations set out in Irish Company Law.  The company sold over $1 Million worth of advertising in a 4 year period, working off a 60% profit margin.  Successfully negotiated the sale of the business in June 2008.          

Company:                    Crescent Communications        

Position:                      IT Consultant                             Dates:   07/2003 – 04/2004                    

Responsibilities:          Offered complete design, supply, installation, maintenance, consultancy & training services for data networking and inter-networking projects.          

Achievements:             Identified, developed & closed key opportunities for the complete portfolio of Crescent Communications’ services and solutions to clients, with particular focus on new building constructions & extensions. 

                                    Took the lead in Crescent Communications becoming NetBotz’s first Irish Accredited Reseller, meeting all the training & certification requirements.  Successfully introduced the suite of IP-based intelligent physical security solutions to the market, negotiating a large scale deployment within the Irish Police Force.  The Force chose the NetBotz suite of physical security appliances to monitor their main Data Centre as well as 14 distributed, understaffed locations in a deal worth $305K.

Company:                    Logica Mobile Networks                        www.logica.com

Position:                      Project Manager                        Dates: 05/2000 - 08/2002                       

Responsibilities:          Managed highly technical, short messaging service (SMS) infrastructure installations at customer sites.

Achievements:             Assigned a number of high profile accounts, such as Vodafone Sweden, Mobilkom Austria, GoMobile Malta, Vodafone Malta, T-Mobile Croatia & Meteor Ireland.  Used project & risk management skills to ensure delivery across multiple geographies.  Ensured that deliveries from offshore, in addidition to being simply cost-effective, were also delivered to time, budget & functionality.  Placed pilot teams on client sites to create domain expertise & enable knowledge transfer.  Project managed the implementation of solutions.  Maintained presence at clients sites for enhancements, analysis & design activities.  Conducted regular reviews throughout the process.  Dealt effectively with the issues arising from the migration of one of Logica’s Core Products throughout the customer base.  Project Schedules had to be pushed out, resources reallocated & customer facing skills put to the test before the migration was eventually completed.

Company:                    Crannog Software                     www.crannog-software.com

Position:                      Sales Executive                        Dates:   09/1998 – 05/2000                    

Responsibilities:          Set up and managed a Reseller/Distribution channel in Europe, with particular emphasis on the German, French and Scandinavian markets.

Achievements:             Joined a small start-up Software company as one of its first dedicated Sales staff.  Crannog had developed a package which would monitor a companies usage of their ISDN lines.  The product was used as a stepping stone to the eventual design of a suite of network monitoring products.  Developed business relationships with Crannog’s foreign clients, generating many opportunities for new business & identifying future opportunities.  Put together business plans and marketing strategies in order to successfully secure funding from Enterprise Ireland.  Took the lead in identifying & negotiating a bundling agreement with the German Router manufacturer, Bintec.  This agreement led to an additional $160K of sales, a significant amount for a start up company.

Educational Background:

Dates: 09/02 – 05/03                              Institution:       University College Dublin

Higher Diploma in Computer Science.

Subjects: Computer Programming, Object Orientated Programming, Multi-Media Computing,
Communication and Network Systems, Information Technology and Applications,
Systems Management, Operating Systems, Information Systems, Computer Architecture,
Artificial Intelligence, Program Design & Verification, Systems Design and Development.

Dates:   09/91 – 05/95                            Institution:       University College Dublin          

Bachelor Of Arts Degree in German & Economics.

Hobbies:

Keen participant in sporting activity, particularly soccer, golf & cycling.

Member of Toastmasters International.  Have achieved level of Competent Communicator.