Albert Shally

132 Castlelawn Heights,

Headford Road,
Galway.
Tel: 0866678788

Work Experience
Nov 2009 – Accenture – Junior Software Engineer
April 2010
• Provide customer support through the helpdesk and handled any queries that may
arise
• Modified various excel documents for weekly or monthly reports
• Created ad hoc SQL commands applied to various databases
• Created and executed test documents required to ensure the application and
environments met user performance requirements
• Maintained, improved and repaired client side applications and documentation
according to user specifications

June 2003 – Boston Scientific – Product Builder

August 2004
• Worked as part of a team in the medical device area, building products to be later
used for open-heart surgery.
• Worked in all areas of product building including inspection of device and pre and
post weighing of device after coating
• Worked quickly and reliably under pressure to meet deadlines

Third Level Education

Sept 2008 – Griffith College
May 2009
Post graduate dipolma in Computer Science
• Learnt new programming languages such as Lisp and C#
• Had hands on experience with developing a client/server architecture, threads and
socket programming in C#
• Elected to be class representative by my peers, whose responsibilities included
organizing class events, attending to problems and attending meetings and
institutional reviews.

Sept 2004 – Letterkenny Institute of Technology

May 2008
BSc Hons Science in Applied Computing
• Specialising in the commercial side of computing including software programming
with Java, C, C++, Python, UNIX
• Ability to use HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, ASP, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, VB and SQL
• Worked as part as a team to help design a web based video application that
combated problems of other similar applications i.e. Onfolio
• Acted as the class representative of the computing course in LYIT two years running,
whose duties included: reporting important information to the students, representing
the course in union council meetings, organising class events, etc.

Sept 2002 – Galway Technical Institute

May 2003
FETAC award in Information Technology
• Entered in a two week work placement program in an IT related business to gain
relevant experience in the work environment.
• Learned valuable skills in the concepts of web authoring, basic computer
programming, communications and desktop publishing.
Sept 2000 – Galway-Mayo Institute of technology
May 2002
• Studied Electronic engineering for two years gaining experience in not only
electronics but gaining valuable programming skills with C++ also

Positions of Responsibility
• Worked for a hostel with the computer lab, responsible for assigning computers and
collecting payments.

Skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to use photo editing software including Photoshop
• Very good Report writing skills.
• Languages: Spend five months in South America picking up a basic knowledge of
Spanish, adding to my basic knowledge of French

General Education
1995- St Joseph’s College
2000
• Achieved honours in five out of seven undertaken including Maths and English

Referees
Thomas Dowling, Head of Department of Computing, Letterkenny Institute of Technology,
Letterkenny, Donegal
Tel (074) 9186304
Waseem Akhtar, Course Director, Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin
Tel (01) 4163363