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Speeches, Presentations, Seminars and Articles

October 2010

“The Mullarkey Report, Corporate Governance and Internal Audit in the Irish Public Sector.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 26 October 2010.

October 2010

“Social Media: Getting To Grips With The New World.” Presentation to CIO-Connect Annual Conference in London on 5 October 2010. 

September 2010

“Internal Audit and Public Sector Management Effectiveness.” Article published in August/September edition of Public Affairs Ireland Journal.

June 2010

“Social Media: Creating Collaborative Conversations.” Presentation, via Telecast, to CIO-Connect event in Hong Kong on 30 June 2010.

June 2010

“Deploying Microsoft Project and Project Server in Trinity College Dublin.” Presentation to Microsoft and PM-Centrix customer event on 22 June 2010.

May 2010

“Social Media: Creating Collaborative Conversations.” Presentation to CIO-Connect event on 20 May 2010.

April 2010

“Value for Money and Policy Reviews.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 28 April 2010.

March 2010

“The Mullarkey Report, Corporate Governance and Internal Audit in the Irish Public Sector.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 10 March 2010. 

March 2010

“Managing the Public Procurement Process and Achieving Value for Money.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 8 March 2010. 

November 2009

“The Mullarkey Report, Corporate Governance and Internal Audit in the Irish Public Sector.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 19 November 2009. 

October 2009

“Managing the Public Procurement Process and Achieving Value for Money.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 22 October 2009. 

June 2009

“Internal Audit in the Irish Public Sector.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 17 June 2009. 

February 2009

 “Public Sector Efficiency Reviews.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 18 February 2009.

February 2009

“Value for Money and Policy Reviews.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 12 February 2009.

January 2009

“Presentation and Influencing Skills.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 30 January 2009.

October 2008

“Presentation and Influencing Skills.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 22 October 2008.

June 2008

“Public Sector Efficiency Reviews.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 18 June 2008.

May 2008

“Value for Money and Policy Reviews.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on 21 May 2008.

May 2008

“Public accounting concepts; Performance measurement: information use and management; IT aspects of financial and performance measurement systems.” Presentations to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Introduction to the Management Information Framework on 13 May 2008.

Data file management and security.” Presentations to Annual Conference of the Irish Local Government Audit Service on 25 April 2008.

April 2008

Managing public sector consultancy assignments.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Procurement and Management of Consultancy Contracts in the Public Service on 17 April 2008.

April 2008

Practical writing skills – Guidance for public servants on effective written communications.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Practical Writing Skills on 9 April 2008.

February 2008

Achieving value for money under the management information framework in a public sector context.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Managing Budgets and Resources in the Public Service on 28 February 2008.

February 2008

Managing public sector consultancy assignments.” Presentation to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Procurement and Management of Consultancy Contracts in the Public Service on 26 February 2008.

January 2008

The role of internal audit in public sector governance” and “Key challenges for internal audit in public sector entities.” Presentations to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Internal audit in the public service on 17 January 2008.

July 2007

The role of internal audit in public sector governance” and “Key challenges for internal audit in public sector entities.” Presentations to Public Affairs Ireland seminar on Internal audit in the public service on 10 July 2007.

May 2006

“Making effective presentations to audit committees.” Presentation to Institute of Internal Auditors Annual Conference on 11 May 2006.

October 2005

“Career paths – from wax seals to digital signatures.” Article contributed to ‘The Inside Careers Guide to Information Technology 2005/2006′ published by Cambridge Market Intelligence in association with the British Computer Society (ISBN 1 86213 099 X). Also featured on the Inside Careers web site http://insidecareers.co.uk.

September 2004

“Career paths – from wax seals to digital signatures”. Article published in ‘The Inside Careers Guide to Information Technology 2004/2005′ published by Cambridge Market Intelligence in association with the British Computer Society (ISBN 1 86213 090 6). Also featured on the Inside Careers web site http://insidecareers.co.uk.

May 2003

“All systems go?”  Article on planning for information and communications technology (ICT) continuity published in the British Computer Society members’ magazine, The Computer Bulletin, and on the BCS web site http://www.bcs.org.uk.

December 2002

“Don’t let a crisis put you out of business.” Article on business continuity planning published in International Purchasing and Supply Magazine, December 2002.

April 2002

“Getting projects into gear.” Article reprinted with permission in “Delphis Update,” the monthly employee magazine of Delphis Consulting plc.

November 2001

“Getting projects in gear” article published in the British Computer Society members’ magazine, The Computer Bulletin, and on the BCS web site http://www.bcs.org.uk.

October 2001

“Understanding and addressing e-business risks: technical, people and process risks.” Presentation to Institute of Internal Audit conference on Total Risk Management in Ireland, 23 October 2001.

May 2001

“Planning for success – basics of good project management” Article published on KPMG web site and in International Purchasing and Supply Magazine, May 2001.

January 2001

“Building a framework to manage the key e‑business risks.” Presentation to the Institute of Internal Audit conference on Total Risk Management in Ireland, 29 January 2001.

November 1999

“Managing project risk.” Presentation to industry group of public and private sector organisations on project risk management in connection with benchmarking capital procurement projects.

November 1997

“Mobilising for the Year 2000.” Presentation to Institution of Engineers of Ireland seminar.