The Spiralli team is made up of professionals who are passionate about what they do. As well as our core team, we partner with a select few quality businesses and contractors who add value to our core skill set.
Niamh Ni Chearbhaill
- Grew up in New-Two-Pot-House Cross, just North of Mallow, County Cork
- Web Designer, Trainer, Administrator, Sales and Marketing
- Left Ireland 1993, lived and worked in many countries: Netherlands, Germany, USA, came back to Cork in 2001, met Ivan 2002
- Creating digital designs since 1999 for organisations such as the Financial Management Association (USA)
Niamh
Niamh is an equal partner in the business. She has an Associates Degree in Business Technology and a Diploma (now called a lower degree) in Human Relations. Niamh is well versed in image acquisition/manipulation, web graphic design and internet aesthetics. She has been creating digital designs for web and print media since 1999.
Niamh has extensive experience in designing web sites for a wide range of businesses, large scale conference/exhibition presentation CDs – both CD cover/inserts and the self-running electronic content, politician ad campaigns involving web, newspaper, magazine, poster and signage media, business ad campaigns, logos/branding and PowerPoint presentations.
With experience in giving training and writing training manuals throughout her career, she now writes and gives training on topics such as: LinkedIn.com, Facebook.com for Business, Introduction to Computers, Using the Internet and Email for Business, PowerPoint presentations, Effective Networking (both online and offline), etc.
Personal Recommendations
Amy Shever, 2nd Chance 4 Pets
“Niamh provides exceptional talent and great attention to detail. She is responsive, easy to work with and a true professional. I highly recommend Niamh to others looking for outstanding results.”
Emily Hurley-Wilkinson, Owner at Academy Of Personal & Professional Development
“Niamh is a fellow member of the NCBA networking group. She is creative, innovative and enthusiastic and always endeavors to bring extra value to her presentations each week. If you are exploring ways to capitalize on your business online, I highly recommend Niamh.”
Ivan O’Donoghue
- Mallow native, also grew up in Charleville
- Web developer, Software Consultant, Trainer
- Lifetime working with computers
- Worked 13 years in EMC, Cork
- Ivan’s first experience on the internet in 1990 occurred before the World Wide Web existed. In Cork Regional Technical College (now the Cork Institute of Technology) Ivan procured an account for a mainframe which was linked to another machine in the UCC. The UCC machine was connected to another in Dublin, and from there a number of nodes extended to various academic and military machines throughout the western world. Ivan used the experience to augment his theoretical knowledge, and has seldom been offline since.
Ivan
Ivan is the second partner in Spiralli. He brings more than 13 years corporate IT experience to the company. Ivan is the primary web developer for the business. He has a B Sc. in Computer Applications from Cork Institute of Technology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computing for Commerce and Industry from The Open University.
His key skills include software development, user interface design, internet technology and security, W3C standards compliance and software testing. Ivan maintains a large technical library and adds to it regularly.
Ivan is also a trainer at Spiralli and gives training in Twitter for Business, Blogging for Business, Understanding Social Media, Introduction to Search Engine Optimisation, etc.
He also writes for technology and music blogs including:
The Cork Independent – corkindependent.com
Key Technologies
- PHP, including CodeIgniter and PEAR
- mySQL
- HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML
- JavaScript, including jQuery, AJAX
- Content Management Systems: WordPress, CMS Made Simple, Joomla, and more
- E-Commerce: Magento, Realex and Paypal integration
PHP 5.3 certified by Brainbench
Personal Recommendations
Brian McNamara
“I have found Ivan to be extremely professional and courteous since we started doing business together. He always has his clients best interests at heart and his integrity is unquestionable. He has been a great support to me throughout my business start up.”
