Curriculum Vitae

Name:              Noirin Shirley
Email:             noirin@apache.org
Telephone:         +1-646-450-4596

Personal Statement

I am passionate about Open Source, community development, documentation, and
communication. I'm at my best when I'm teaching people about the things I love,
facilitating individuals and groups in learning how to do things for
themselves, and generally connecting people with knowledge and information.

Employment

Technical Writer, Google (Aug 2008 - Present)
* Document internal and external APIs and products, including:
  + Google Chart API
  + Authentication and Authorization for Google APIs
  + Google Base Help
* Support engineers in writing of all kinds, such as:
  + Announcements (via email and blog posts)
  + Product plans
  + UI text
  + Conceptual documentation of new designs and features
  + Reference and API documentation
* Work with software engineers, product managers, and support teams to ensure
  that end-user documentation is clear and user-friendly
* Work with operations teams to ensure that complex technical information is
  communicated internally in a well-organized and accurate manner
* Provide an engineering perspective and background to other technical writers,
  and mentor writers in technical and open source efforts

Conference Lead, ApacheCon EU (Sept 2007 - April 2009)
* Led the organisation of ApacheCon EU for the 2008 and 2009 conferences.
* Co-ordinated all activities for the organisation of the conference
* Issued Call for Papers and oversaw talk selection
* Oversaw speaker travel and reimbursement
* Worked with PR and Sponsorship teams to ensure adequate technical detail and
  focus
* Liaised with media and managed volunteers, before and during the events

Technical Librarian, Joost (Sept 2007 - June 2008)
* Managed documentation and information publishing for the client engineering
  team
* Created and maintained inter-departmental documentation, trained engineers in
  creating internal documentation
* Took on other tasks as necessary, including taking ownership of wiki and
  bug-tracking software to ensure engineers could get their work done more
  easily
* Interfaced between business and engineering teams, including collection &
  integration of status reports

IT Consultant/System Administrator, Zoology Dept, TCD (June 2006 - Aug 2008)
* Administered and maintained IT systems for a research group working in
  conjunction with the University of Edinburgh
* Provided end user support and liaison with the IT team in Edinburgh
* Consulted on development of new systems, both hardware and software
* Installed and customised these systems

Language Assistant, Multimedia Language Lab, Ludwig Maximilians Universität
(May 2006 - August 2006)
* Managed technical aspects of the multimedia programme
* Assisted learners in improving fluency and expressiveness in written & spoken
  English

Localisation Engineer, Office Online, Microsoft (July 2004 - October 2005)
* Developed processes for management of external links from office.microsoft.com
* Trained local, US & Japanese teams, and external vendors to maintain external
  links
* Managed and maintained market-specific content from subsidiary offices
  globally
* Automated and outsourced the maintenance of market-specific content


Achievements
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Technology:
* Director & Executive Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation
* Vice-President for Conferences, Apache Software Foundation
* Project Management Committee member at the ASF
  + Community Development
  + httpd
  + Incubator
  + Infrastructure
  + Publicity
* Director, Digital Rights Ireland
* Secretary, Open Cloud Initiative
* Technical reviewer for several books & publications related to the Apache
  webserver
* Single-handedly organized tech events from a regular series of talks to
  working retreats/dev sprints
* Keynote speaker at OSDC 2010 and Open World Forum
* Speaker at linux.conf.au, TransferSummit/UK, ApacheCon, as well as BarCamps
  on three continents

Education:
* B.A. Mod (Hons) in Computer Science, Linguistics & German, First Class
* Gold Medallist, Trinity College Dublin
* Erasmus Scholar, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, September 2005 - July 2006
* Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Europe, February - June 2003
* Research Assistant, Maths Dept, TCD, June - August 2003

Extracurricular:
* St John Ambulance Brigade volunteer, Emergency Medical First Responder
* First aid demonstrator
* Grade IV (Distinction) in Irish Harp
* Grade V (Distinction) in Piano, Grade V in Music Theory
* Grade VI (Merit) in Concert Harp
* Keen swing dancer