University College Cork

Coláiste Muire Secondary School

I help people let go of limitations to gain new perspectives and find the solutions already awaiting them within. 🙌✨

Skills: Microsoft Power BI · cPanel · Software Testing · Azure Sentinel · Microsoft Excel · Powershell · Microsoft Purview · Adobe Creative Suite · WordPress · Kusto Query Language (KQL) · Graphic Design · Cloudflare

CloudAssist

Senior Compliance Specialist

Compliance Specialist

Secure Remote Specialist

Small business owner. My first online business venture was an animated explainer video agency, which I created at the end of 2018. I joined a global online business mastermind to learn about marketing, sales, project management and delivery. I acted innovatively, applying what I was learning in the market as I went, successfully building a team of animators, scriptwriters, and voiceover artists who completed a variety of projects for clients in Ireland, the UK, the US, and Canada. Collaborating together seamlessly online through Slack, Zoom, G Suite, and other software, we produced high quality corporate animations that helped our clients convey their business services, improve branding, and ultimately win new clientele. I learned a great deal about marketing, sales, online business, managing a team, and satisfying my clients through this experience, which I am excited to combine with my scientific background and apply in my ongoing career.

Active Animations

Animated Videos that Explain your Business Concept and Boost Sales

• Successfully conjugated a variety of bacteriophage-resistance-encoding plasmids via food-grade means to generate three novel bacterial strains of high value to industry.
• Deconstructed four undefined, mesophilic, bulk, dairy starter cultures, revealing strains encoding phage resistance and other valuable traits for my industrial employers.
• Characterised the genomes of five previously unknown Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages, contributing valuable data toward future phage defence strategies.
• Created a comprehensive literature review on Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages and the species’ bacteriophage defence mechanisms.
• Designed primers using biostatistical software to successfully close a gap in bacteriophage genome sequencing results, yielding valuable insights.
• Successfully managed a laboratory, including requisition of supplies, organising SOP's, maintaining an aseptic environment, testing / retesting, assisting co-workers, etc.
• Contributed directly to at least three other colleagues’ theses and additional projects by assisting their work and sharing expertise in culturing and characterisation assays.

Key Achievement:
• Received Research M.Sc. ‘Genomics of Dairy Starter Cultures and their Bacteriophages’.

Teagasc

MSc Researcher & Lab Work

• Successfully balanced my time between part-time employment and university studies.
• Assembled goods with meticulous care, following manufacturer’s specifications.
• Regularly worked in a customer-facing capacity, with an amicable and helpful attitude.
• Helped with assembly, delivery, and store management, multi-tasking as required.

Key Achievement: 
• Delivered a quality service to customers and my employers, developed a great rapport with co-workers, and used my time there to partly pay for college expenses.

O' Brien's Furniture

Furniture Assembler / Courier

• Balanced my time between part-time employment and first year of university studies.
• 17 at the time, and first job, commuted by car with parent to reach work for every shift.
• Assisted in the stocking of shelves, inventory of items, and managing the premises.
• Worked in a customer-facing role, dealing with the public warmly and helpfully.

Key Achievement: 
• Gained valuable first experiences of employment, developing my organisational and interpersonal skills, as well as building my confidence and competence.

Conor Ronayne