Jonathan Clarke

Current

Business Analyst / Ruby Developer at Westwick-Farrow

Past

Senior Analyst / Programmer - Internal Systems at Arvato Financial Services
Software Engineer / Team Leader / Project Manager at Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Corporation
Manager at Euro Languages College

Multi-Lingual Network Engineer at COLT Telecom

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Education

National University of Ireland, Galway
Dublin City University
National University of Ireland, Galway

Athlone Institute of Technology

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Jonathan Clarke’s Summary

I'm a 27 year old software engineer from Ireland currently working in Sydney whilst also completing an M.Sc. Software Information Systems long distance.

Predominantly my main focus is on developing systems through the Ruby however I have had success developing large scale applications with J2EE, PHP and Oracle in the past.

Jonathan Clarke’s Specialties:

Large scale application development and deployment, application architecture, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, J2EE, PHP, French, Chinese, Open Source Software

Jonathan Clarke’s Experience

Business Analyst / Ruby Developer

Westwick-Farrow

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Senior Analyst / Programmer - Internal Systems

Arvato Financial Services

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Designed, developed, supported and maintained a number of project management, trouble ticketing, configuration and QA systems. Took responsibility for all stages of the implementation of new projects. Liaised with internal/external stakeholders, clients and vendors to discuss requirements and project issues. Used a large variety of tools such as J2EE, Ruby on Rails, Oracle, MySQL and Visual Basic.
Software Engineer / Team Leader / Project Manager

Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Corporation

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Programming - J2EE, Oracle, MS-SQL
Analyzing client systems
System Documentation - Full SDLC
Direct Customer Interaction (Sales and Project Management)
Outsourced as a private contractor to GE-Energy, GE-Healthcare, GE-Hydro Asia to work on large enterprise sized software applications
Manager

Euro Languages College

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

June 1999 — September 2004 (5 years 4 months)

Euro Languages College was established in 1989 to provide intensive residential French and German summer courses for second level students in Ireland. Students experience total immersion in the target language in a secure and safe environment.

They are provided with the opportunity of actually living a foreign language on a day-to-day basis without having to contend with the extra expense, difficulties and anxiety involved in going abroad. All courses are for a period of three weeks and are fully residential in selected boarding schools throughout the country.

As Manager I was involved in the complete day to day running of such courses managing up to 150 students and 20 staff at any given time throughout the French language only.
Multi-Lingual Network Engineer

COLT Telecom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT; Telecommunications industry)

August 2003 — May 2004 (10 months)

Management of Colts ATM / VOIP / Ethernet / Fiber Network
Resolution of Network Faults
Liaising with customers through French and English

Jonathan Clarke’s Education

National University of Ireland, Galway

M.Sc , Software and Information Systems , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Dublin City University

Diploma in Chinese Cultural Studies , Mandarin Chinese , 2005 — 2005
National University of Ireland, Galway

Software Design & Development , Software , 2004 — 2005
Athlone Institute of Technology

B.Sc (Honors) Computer & Software Engineering , Computer, Software, Engineering , 1999 — 2003