Lorcan McDonald

I am a highly experienced web developer with a particular interest in the software development process and computer languages, particularly dynamic (Javascript and Python) and functional (Haskell). I also have a deep passion for computer security and usability.
Outside of my professional responsibilities I have worked on personal projects using Processing, Django, Node.js and CouchDB, hosted on a personal Slicehost instance. I have spoken to various user groups on subjects such as the Git version control system, OpenGL and MIDI development in Haskell and writing electronic music. I organised and performed music and video at various venues, including the Electric Picnic Music Festival and Whelan's of Wexford Street.

Professional Skills

As the technical lead on the XPages Mobile Controls project, I am architecting and implementing the mobile web experience for Domino XPages (a web framework for developing modern applications on Lotus Notes-Domino).
While with IBM I have had the opportunity to contribute a chapter to a forthcoming book (XPages Extension Library - IBM Press), and present to large audiences (including Lotusphere 2012).
- Technologies
  - Java
    - Java Server Faces (2 years)
    - Eclipse - Rich Client Platform (2 years)
    - Android development (Phone gap) (6 months)
  - Javascript (Dojo Toolkit)
    - Dojo Toolkit (3 years)
    - Dojo Mobile (1 year)
  - Domino development (XPages) (2 years)

Working closely with the professional services team, I designed and implemented various user interface screens and business rules relating to the processing of credit card billing information. I had exposure to the full stack from a highly dynamic Javascript front end to Oracle Databases through the J2EE based middle tier. Another core responsibility was administration of iPlanet, Tomcat, Apache and BEA Weblogic servers on Solaris and Linux machines.
- Java (In house framework) (2 years)
- Javascript
  - In-house framework (2 years)
  - JQuery (6 months)
- XSLT
- Unix Administration (2 years)
  - Solaris
  - Linux
- C++

As a member of a small development team for a busy online trading exchange, I had the opportunity to work on various Java based web development technologies including JSPs applets and Java Beans. I was personally responsible for two major redesigns of customer facing websites. This furthered my knowledge of cross browser compatible Javascript and standards compliant HTML and CSS.
My period of employment coincided with a number of spikes in web traffic (both legitimate and malicious) for the customer websites which gave me hands on experience in dealing with scaling issues.
- Technologies
  - Java (In house framework) (2½ years)
  - Javascript (pre-frameworks) (2½ years)
- Cross Browser CSS (IE6 era) (2½ years)
- UNIX administration (2½ years)

I completed my BSc. in Computer Applications in 2003. It was a general computing degree which specialised in fourth year. I chose the Software Engineering stream (from a choice of Computer Science and Information Systems).
Modules included:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Networks
- Computer Graphics
- Parallel Computing
- Databases

As part of the main development team of six developers, I worked on network monitoring software which collected SNMP and Cisco Netflow statistics and displayed them in a visual form. My duties included writing and modifying Java applets and JSPs, porting projects to the Sun Solaris operating system (including high throughput networking code written in C++), and testing software.