Edward O'Connor

Chief Technology Officer at Continent 8 Technologies

Edward O'Connor has extensive experience in the technology industry, with a specialization in network services. Edward currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at Continent 8 Technologies, a role they have held since February 2023. Prior to this, Edward served as the Director of Technical Operations at the same company from November 2020 to February 2023. Before joining Continent 8 Technologies, they worked at Amazon Web Services as the Edge Data Center Manager for EMEA Deployments from January 2017 to August 2018. Edward also has significant experience at open eir, where they held the roles of Mobile Core Network Design & Support Systems Manager from January 2015 to December 2016, and Senior Mobile Core Network Design Engineer from January 2012 to January 2015. Edward started their career at Meteor Mobile Communications as a VAS (Packet Core & Messaging) Operations Engineer from an unspecified start date to 2010, and as an SMC/ NOC Engineer from an unspecified start date to 2008. Edward's earlier experience includes working as a Senior Mobile Packet Core Operations Engineer at Telefonica | O2 Ireland from July 2010 to December 2011.

Edward O'Connor pursued their education at Technological University Dublin from 2002 to 2006, where they earned an Honours Bachelor Degree in Science. Their field of study during this time focused on Network Computing & Software Development. Prior to that, they attended Crumlin College of Further Education from 2001 to 2002, where they completed a program in Computer Network & Software Systems (FETAC), though the specific field of study is not mentioned.

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Timeline

  • Chief Technology Officer

    February, 2023 - present

  • Director Of Technical Operations

    November, 2020

  • Head Of Global Network Services

    August, 2018