In conversation with Barry O'Sullivan, Head of IT Operations, UCC. Barry completed a BComm and an MBS in Business Information Systems in UCC and then worked in PwC for 6 years as a Systems Implementation Engineer working with various clients including Department of Education, CERT, Department Social Welfare, and GPA. Barry then moved to Motorola before moving to Avery Dennison in Cork as an IT Manager. In 2002 Barry joined UCC IT Services working in Enterprise Applications on new systems development and data warehousing projects. One of the first jobs Barry was tasked with was the development of a new system to support anonymous marking – this led to the development and rollout of DMIS that is still widely used today 20 years later! In 2014 Barry became Head of Platform Delivery Group in IT Services with responsibility for the campus networks and datacentres and earlier this year Barry was appointed Head of IT Operations.

IT Services has recently launched the ITBytes podcast, hosted by Noelette Hurley featuring Deirdre Keane and produced by Eoin O’Sullivan.  ITBytes will chat about all things IT in UCC and introduce you to a variety of guests from UCC staff, students, alumni and beyond.  It aims to inform, demystify IT and share some interesting stories with the guests featured on the podcast.