DrClare Branigan

I have been employed since 2001 by theManagement Information Systems (MIS) Subject Area in UCD     I completed my PhD in December 2009, and since then I have been teaching in UCD and working on my research agenda Prior to joining UCD and pursuing my doctoral studies(2001), I worked with an international business consulting company  -VISION Consulting which employed over 400 people   One of my roles there included Personal Business Manager for the CEO Billy Glennon, which an initiative to fast track people by giving them experience of working closely with Director level people   Prior to that, I worked at MITRE (in Boston) an offshoot of MIT for 9 years where I managed a number of systems engineering projects primarily for the US Air Force   During the course of this work, I published technical papers which were fordistribution both inside MITRE and for public distribution MITRE is a research Facility funded by the US Department Defence  MITRE employees 7,600 scientists, engineers and support specialists  Prior to MITRE, I worked as a SoftwareEngineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, Boston, USA (Educational Institution; Defence & Space industry)My work involved designing,building and testing software to acquire and communicate with the MILSTARsatellite (using the C programming language) >>