About
Who is Ciaran McHale?
Work
I have been working for IONA Technologies and Progress Software since 1995, where I am a principal consultant. My job involves consultancy (for example, programming, architectural design, code reviews, mentoring), writing training courses and delivering training courses.
My primary talent is the ability to digest complex ideas and re-explain them in simpler ways. This talent shows itself in subjects that stir my passion, such as multi-threading, distributed middleware, code generation, configuration-file parsers, and writing training courses. Over time, I hope to add more and more content to this web site to demonstrate my contributions to simplicity in these areas.
You can find more details in my résumé.
Contact details
Work email: Ciaran.McHale@progress.com
Personal email: ciaran_mchale@yahoo.co.uk
Mobile/cell phone: +44-(0)-7866-416-134
Fax: +44-(0)-118-954-6767
Pronunciation of my name
The name Ciaran is from the Gaelic (Irish) language, and it means “little dark one”. The name is pronounced “keer-ran”. The English spelling of the name is Kieran.
Ciaran/Kieran is a masculine name. The feminine version is spelt Ciara/Kiera. One famous person with this name is the actress Kiera Knightley.
A common name in India is Kiran or Kiron but, even though it is pronounced similarly to Ciaran, it has a different origin and meaning. It comes from Sanskrit, and means “ray of light”.
How this web site is built
All the pages on this web site are written using the LaTeX type-setting system. The Hevea tool is used to generate HTML pages from the LaTeX sources.