Shane Mc Allister - Founder
Shane Mc Allister founded MobaNode in early October 2007. Prior to founding MobaNode, Shane Mc Allister was the Executive VP at MagneticTime, a text to speech software company, where he led the business development, partnering and sales activities for the organisation. In MagneticTime, Shane secured a world's first for an Irish software firm by closing a deal that saw MagneticTime's products being carried by Apple Computer's prestigious retail stores globally.
Previously, Shane spent 5 years as Director of Business Development and Channels for PrimeLearning.com, an eLearning firm specializing in soft skills training for the corporate market. Before this, Shane was head of design at Eurologic Systems, a data storage solutions manufacturer that has since been acquired by Adaptec, Inc. He started his career as a product designer specialising in consumer electronic devices at Allies Design, an award winning product design consultancy.
Shane holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics from University College Dublin, and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Industrial Design from the University of Teesside in England.
Pat O'Hora - J2ME Guru
Pat's main role involves J2ME development, but he's also involved in researching new ideas and technologies. Pat previously worked at Avocent, and holds a degree in Information Technology from the University of Limerick. Fond of quirky T-shirts, Pat is an avid developer and when not programming, can be seen out running and mountain biking in between planning his next meal and drinking coffee!
Mike O'Connor - Graphic Artist
Mike is MobaNode's graphic artist and is responsible for all the "creative" imagery behind MobaNode's Content and Applications. Working part time, whilst not pursuing other interests, Mike holds a degree in sculpture (or so he tells us!) and quite how that qualifies him to do tasty graphics work in Photoshop all day is unknown, save to say he wields a Wacom digital tablet like no other.
Advisory Board
MobaNode is a small team, but luckily we benefit in being able to call on the advice and guidance of the following members of our Advisory Board
Oisin O'Connor - Head of eircom mobile - Eircom
Oisin is a senior telecoms professional with 14 years experience of general management, program management, product marketing, product development, business startups and new business development across the telcoms and technology sectors. Previously with 3 (UK & Australia), Betmart.com, Enba and IDA Ireland.
Paul Sweeney - Director of Innovation - Voicesage
Paul has been a business development adviser to over 40 high technology start-up ventures in the telecom and software sectors, where he specialised in identifying future market positions and developing product and route-to-market strategies. He worked as a project lead at eircom New Ventures, and with the eircom enterprise fund. He also acts as senior advisor to Aventura, a dublin based venture capital advisory company.
Paul Hayes - Founder - Beach Hut PR
Paul has over 10 years of public relations, marketing, lobbying and branding experience in Ireland and the US. He was marketing director of Havok, a leading multinational games technology company, prior to founding his own PR firm, Beach Hut PR. Beach Hut PR specialises in Technology, Financial services, Government, Healthcare and the non-profit sectors.
Dr. Martin Hayes - Head of the Wireless Access Research Centre, University of Limerick
Martin Hayes has lectured at the University of Limerick since 1997, is currently course leader for the BSc in Electronics programme, and is a Researcher in the Wireless Access Research Centre. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Electrical Science, Automatic Control, Computer Controlled Systems and the control of Non-Linear systems.