• Cormac McKenna

    Hello, this site is an overview of my career.

    Currently I’m the Head of Technical Operations for the ADAPT Centre.

    As Head of Technical Operations I lead and define ADAPT’s research and production infrastructure, technology operations and strategy.

    This involves coordinating, organising, and managing the mission critical IT infrastructure across the ADAPT Centre and its locations both on-premise and in the cloud. The mission critical infrastructure contains university leading HPC GPU Clusters and virtualisation clusters capable of supporting both research and industry projects.

    These locations consist of eight Higher Education Institutions including Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University College Dublin, Technological University Dublin, Maynooth University, Munster Technological University, Technological University of the Shannon, and the University of Galway) with over 300 active users and spanning a multitude of research fields with 85+ academics (Principal Investigators and Funded Investigators).

    Under my leadership Technical Operations has supported multiple projects such as virtualtreasury.ie (2.5m), Vigilant (4m), Aial.ie (1.5m), signon-project.eu (5.6m), Estor.ie,
    and provided support to many more projects from various ADAPT associated universities and members.

    I hold the following degrees:
    BSc Honours in I.T. Management
    BSc in Computing in Systems Administration

    03/2018 – 08/2019

    Systems Administrator
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    Enovation Solutions

    09/2019 – 06/2020

    Systems Administrator
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    Technical Operations, ADAPT Centre,
    Dublin City University

    06/2020 – 10/2021

    Interim Senior Systems Administrator
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    Technical Operations, ADAPT Centre,
    Trinity College Dublin

    10/2021 – 12/2024

    Senior Systems Administrator
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    Technical Operations, ADAPT Centre,
    Trinity College Dublin

    12/2024 – Present

    Head of Technical Operations
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    Technical Operations, ADAPT Centre,
    Trinity College Dublin