Shannon Garrahy

Building on a software development education focused on C, Java, Delphi and others, Shannon taught himself PHP and has accrued over a decade of experience in open source based web application development. In his years with Accella, he has been involved with projects such as The BCAT, National Archives, iWannamaker, and Parker-Hannifin. Prior to joining Accella, Shannon spent over four years in a leadership role developing a partner portal platform which allowed tens of thousands of users worldwide to access marketing materials, training, register sales leads and request Marketing Development Funds (MDF) for clients including Palm, Informatica, Arrow ECS, Ipswitch and ExactTarget.

Shannon is an alumnus of Bond University located on the beautiful Gold Coast in his native Australia. After completing his Bachelors degree in Information Technology with majors in Software Development and Multimedia Design, he went on to attain a Masters of Information Technology Management. Shannon followed his wife to the US and spent several years in Silicon Valley before moving to to the East Coast.