Profile
Sarah Doran
Curriculum Vitae
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Work History:
Motorola, Curam Software, Norkom Technologies and Mobile Travel Technologies
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Current Job:
Technical lead/Web Developer
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Employer:
Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT)
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My Work: I’m technical lead for a team making a travel website for people who travel with their job
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Researching the best technologies to use to make our travel site faster, easier to work on, and looking awesome.
Writing code to create new features on the site (sometimes while sitting on bean bags listening to my favourite music in the company “Quiet Room”.
Attending meetings with the customer and providing updates on how the development of the site is progressing and discuss options for the next features we will be working on.
Helping a team of designers, developers, testers and business analysts work well together.
Sometimes I get to go to cool places for customer meetings like San Francisco or big conferences like AngularConnect in London
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My Typical Day: A few meetings, answering questions from the team and writing some code!
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What I'd do with the money: Donate to Coderdojo Coolest Projects Awards so more kids can take part and come to the awards for free to see awesome IT projects
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CoderDojo is a coding club for kids aged 7 to 17. It is free to attend and run by volunteers. CoderDojo has lots of clubs all over Ireland and the entire World (although we are very proud as it was started in Cork by a teenager!).
The CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards is a big competition for 1000 kids to take part in who have been creating their own Apps, websites, robots and other technology projects. All kids take part for free and all kids can go see the projects for free with their parents. There are really cool demos of new software like Microsoft XBox games, cool new Apps and flying Quadcopters.
I’m one of the volunteer organisers of this event and we have to raise a lot of money from Sponsors to run the entire event for free in the RDS in Dublin. €500 could pay for tshirts for the kids to wear or the lanyards around their neck that say what project they created or pay for some of the security we need to run the event safely!
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Creative, Practical, Adventurous
What's the best thing you've done in your career?
Teaching kids how to create websites & games at Coderdojo
What or who inspired you to follow your career?
Making a website at school
What did you want to be after you left school?
Something with computers or Sound Engineer
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Sometimes when a class was too boring
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
A vet ????
Who is your favourite singer or band?
BellX1
What's your favourite food?
Sushi ?
What is the most fun thing you've done?
Bungee jumped 130 metres freefall over a river ?
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
To always be happy, enjoy my work and have my own dog! ?
Tell us a joke.
What do you call a machine that turns coffee into code?……… A programmer ?
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