Postgraduate:PGCert in
Educational and Social Research, University of London ( — ), in progress; MBS in
Business Information Systems, National University of Ireland Cork ( — ), 2H2.
Undergraduate:MA in
Joint Honours in Economics & Management, University of St. Andrews ( — ), 2H1; BSc in
Software Engineering, University of Hull ( — ).
Further Education:UK NQF Level 5 in
Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), College of Teachers ( — ), in progress.
Experiences Relevant To :
Past Employers (permanent and
contract):
Advanced RISC Machines (ARM)
Applied Research Associates
Colton Software
Cork English College
Intelligent Systems Design (ISD)
Irish Hydrodata
Kestrel Communications
National University of Ireland Cork
Protechnic Computers
Setroson S.A.
Past Employment Roles:
Business Lecturer [Cork English College]
Chief Software Architect for EuroFighter Fuel & Hydraulic Test
Benches [Setroson S.A.]
Customer Support & Upgrading of PipeDream Office Software for Acorn
RISC-OS [Colton Software]
Debugging and 13% performance improvement of US DoD
Planning Project [Applied Research Associates]
Economics Lecturer [National University of Ireland Cork]
Further optimisation of US DoD Planning Project
gaining a further 10% performance improvement [Applied Research Associates]
Implemented Radio Over IP via Voice Over IP
(Asterisk) [Kestrel Communications]
Implemented distributed Post Office Address network query service over
TCP/IP [Protechnic Computers]
Implemented reliable wave buoy data collection solution [Irish Hydrodata]
Performance Optimisation of ARM7 GPS firmware for Guidance Systems [Intelligent Systems Design (ISD)]
Tutor in Economics, Business, Stats, Management and Web Programming [National University of Ireland Cork]
Wrote i/o driver, EEPROM programmer and refactored
DEC's StrongARM uHAL port [Advanced RISC Machines (ARM)]
Open Source
contributions:
Added void * support to the C++ Boost.Python library
Added symbol
visibility support to the GNU Compiler Collection
BEurtle BE distributed issue tracker GUI
plugin for the TortoiseXXX family of SCMs
Contributed EU VAT support to Plone's
Easyshop eCommerce Product
Implemented a Preemptive
Multitasker for Acorn RISC-OS
TnFOX template metaprogrammed C++
portability layer
nedHAL object-orientated Hardware
Abstraction Layer for ARM microprocessors
nedmalloc Thread Caching Memory
Allocator
nedtries Portable Bitwise Fredkin Trie
Library
Committees:
International Standards Organisation (ISO) Working Group 14
committee
National Standards Authority of Ireland ISO/IEC mirror committees
University of Hull Student Committees
University of St. Andrews Student Committees
University of St. Andrews Student Societies
World Economics Association
World Economics Association Conference Committee
Publications:
Books:
Economists and the Powerful:
Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards (), Anthem Press, ISBN:
978-0-8572-8459-4
Freeing Growth:
A Neo-Capitalist Manifesto (), ned Productions, ISBN:
978-1-4478-7962-6
Freeing Growth:
A Neo-Capitalist Manifesto (), Google Books
Freeing Growth:
How The World Can Grow Four Times Faster Sustained (), Working Manuscript
Papers/Conference Presentations:
Combining reliability and validity in assessment:
Can auditing create the Golden Goose in assessment quality? (), Institute of Education, University of London
User Mode Memory Page Management:
An old idea applied anew to the memory wall problem (), ArXiv e-prints,
Citation key: ArXiv:2011arXiv1105.1815D
User Mode Memory Page Allocation:
A Silver Bullet For Memory Allocation? (), ArXiv e-prints,
Citation key: ArXiv:2011arXiv1105.1811D
Choosing a distance TESOL/TEFL:
A Personal Report (), College of Teachers
ISO JTC1/SC22/WG14 (The C programming language) - N1527:
Latency Reducing Memory Allocation (), International Standards Organisation,
Citation key: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14/N1527
Modelling the Costs of Climate Change and its Costs of Mitigation:
A Scientific Approach (), University Library of Munich, Germany,
Citation key: RePEc:pra:mprapa:13650
Explain "conjectural variation" in Cournot duopoly, evaluate its
impacts and discuss the policy implication (), University Library of Munich, Germany,
Citation key: RePEc:pra:mprapa:13652
What is the evidence on the role of foreign direct investment in
economics growth, and on the determinants of foreign direct investment
flows? (), University Library of Munich, Germany,
Citation key: RePEc:pra:mprapa:13651