More About Me
After graduating from TCD in 1993, I ended up with an IT graduate job at Mobil Oil Company in London. This gave me a good grounding in various aspects of IT.
When Mobil relocated from central London out to Milton Keynes, I declined the move and returned to Ireland, where I then worked as a network support and help desk technician in AIB Capital Markets.
In 1996, myself and my best friend embarked on a big adventure, taking off to live, work and travel in Southern African countries for 6 months, then moving onto Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. I came back to a booming Ireland in 1997 and got a good job in a young software company called Cunav Technologies (it subsequently became NewWorldIQ and finally wound up in 2003) in Dublin. I made good friends and learned loads there, honing my skills in web and database development and working directly with customers.
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In 2003 I decided to move on and do something a little bit different (just as NewWorldIQ was winding up, so it was great timing!). I ended up taking on a teaching role in the Computer Science department of a university in northern Ethiopia, as a VSO volunteer. As well as being a great experience, this gave me the opportunity to further hone my skills in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, the fundamental tools for building web pages, as well as in many other web-related things. I taught web development to degree students so I had to know it really well and really understand it.
I returned to Ireland two years later and set myself up as a self-employed freelance web developer and IT Trainer.
I returned to Ethioipa in July 2007 (for love!), where I built on my previous experience by spending more time working in higher education, both teaching and in a support/capacity building role on a project to improve the quality of education in Ethiopia.
I got married to Dawit, my lovely, wonderful husband in October 2008 - we had a great wedding, mainly Ethiopian in style but with some Irish traditions (like speeches and a rendition of River Dance quite late on in the night) included. We were delighted to get a big contingent of 25 Irish family and friends over to help make our day even more special.
I returned to Ireland in July 2009, hoping that, despite the recession, I can settle back in and continue to develop professionally. My goal is to keep working with IT in education if at all possible
Contact details: email: info@terriosullivan.com
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