Pat Croke

Pat Croke is a retired IT professional with over 40 years of experience and currently serves as a Senior Agile Product Manager in the insurance industry. They began their career loading punch cards for an IBM 4331 mainframe and have since programmed in 15 languages while designing influential information management systems. Pat has managed multi-million Euro EU-funded projects in Natural Language Processing and has contributed to educational initiatives as a part-time lecturer at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. With extensive experience across various domains, they have also held significant roles at Pramerica, Tata Consultancy Services, and Hyperassure Ltd., and are actively involved in Toastmasters as the Area 27 Director.