About Me 2004-02-29T06:05:24Z tag:www.redbrick.dcu.ie,2004:/~cokane/blog/about/3 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2004, Cokane Everything you never wanted to know about Conor O' Kane 2004-02-29T06:05:24Z 2004-02-29T06:05:24+00:00 tag:www.redbrick.dcu.ie,2004:/~cokane/blog/about/3.14 2004-02-29T06:05:24Z So.. you clicked on the link to bring you here. So you either want to know about me or you already know me and want to know what I wrote about myself :o) Mera naam Conor O' Kane hai and... Cokane So.. you clicked on the link to bring you here. So you either want to know about me or you already know me and want to know what I wrote about myself :o)

Mera naam Conor O' Kane hai and I am a 23 year old software developer with a B.Sc. in Computer Applications (aka Computer Science) from Dublin City University, Ireland.

After graduation I worked as a Developer Support Representative with Microsoft UK at a call centre in Dublin. In this job I learnt a lot about .Net stuff and many MS products I had previously never heard of. I already had played with C# since the beta compiler came out but got a lot more experience in my time with Microsoft obviously.

I left this job to do an AIESEC traineeship in Jaipur, India with a company called Compucom Software Ltd doing Java software development. I got a lot of valuable experience in this job on software development practises and a lot of trends and technologies in Java development as well as other aspects of the business.

I have completed my work in Jaipur and have now returned to Ireland and am currently working for a large firm as a consultant on IT security and Risk Management projects for clients.

In my spare time I try to learn languages and improve my fluency in ones I already have some knowledge of. I find language learning challenging and it requires a lot of discipline from me which is part of the reason I do it. Mostly I do it because I love to travel and to communicate with people in their own native languages where possible.

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