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Neil is a computer scientist and software engineer from Dublin, Ireland, who has used computers since he first laid hands on one in 1982. He started programming a few years later, and as a young adult earned his primary degree in Information Technology. Generally he is interested in supercomputing and solving very large computational problems, with a focus on making it all easier to do.
He spent 7 years working as part of an exceptionally competent team of engineers on supercomputers and, in the end, decided to continue advancing his work he needed to move on. Around the same time, he realized that many of the problems which face users of very large computers were remarkably similar to those that would soon face an increasingly network-dependent consumer. He then started tackling those common problems.
In 2007, he joined Trinity College Dublin's Computer Architecture Group and started working on his PhD. It became a quest to not only help users to get the most out of the resources that they already had, but to also enable new technologies. The solutions would help tackle aspects of technology that are advancing more slowly, and therefore better allow the use of those which were advancing at a more rapid pace.
He has completed most of this research, but his plans for graduation took a bit of a detour when he moved to remote Northern BC, Canada, with his wife. During one of his many trips from Ireland to Canada, he met with one of the board members of iGEN Knowledge Solutions and decided to join their team of skilled professionals.