Academic CV - Distributed Systems Group - Trinity College Dublin

Mark Gleeson
+353 86 864 2583
mark.gleeson@gmail.com
Goal
To obtain full time employment in the field of information technology, communications or engineering, in the
form of a research and development, consultancy or an academic role. This role will challenge my engineering
problem solving abilities while expanding my knowledge of communications and computing.
Education
2004 - 2010 PhD in Computer Science, Distributed Systems Group, University of Dublin, Trinity College,
Ireland.
Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Weber
Research Synopsis: Addressing delivery reliability in wireless networks is the research focus.
By investigating the causes of packet loss and seeking to address them through a combination of
improved medium access control and scheduling flexibility in order to improve reliability.
Hierarchical Distributed TDMA forms the basis of the proposed solution combined with a
scheduling layer, which accounts for the failure modes of the underlying wireless communication
layer. A clustered binomial distribution exploits the statistical independence of communication
paths in order to minimise resource requirements.
General Research Interests: Real-world Performance of IEEE 802.11, Development of flexible
TDMA approaches, Adaptive wireless MAC layers to strengthen real-time communication.
2003 - 2004 MSc in Computer Science Networks and Distributed Systems, University of Dublin, Trinity
College, Ireland.
Dissertation Title: A Real-Time Implementation of TBMAC using IEEE 802.11b.
Supervisor: Prof Vinny Cahill
1999 – 2003 BA BAI Computer and Electronic Engineering, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland.
First class honours’ degree in Computer & Electronic Engineering.
Final year project consisted of the development of an internet based secure coursework
submission system.
1999 Leaving Certificate (all higher level papers)
Maths A1
Physics A1
Chemistry A1
Business A2
Irish B1
German B2
English C2
Honours
• Received an entrance exhibitionership at TCD as a result of Leaving Certificate results.
• Received a book prize in first, second and third year of engineering degree.
• Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology postgraduate scholarship.
Languages English Native speaker
Irish Fluent
German Basic

Work Experience
December 2009
- present
Research Fellow at the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC), Dublin. This role forms
the technical lead in a project bringing together 3D virtual worlds and existing learning
management systems, to build a virtual worlds learning management system.
Responsibility for overall technical solution to problem, team leader, system design,
implementation, project planning as well as engaging with end users during trial phase.
Development includes integration of web technologies and includes use of C++, PHP,
MySQL, TorqueScript, QT WebKit, Torque 3D and Moodle.
October 2004-
present
Technical Officer – Rail Users Ireland. This role consisted of numerous elements in order to
represent the interests of rail passengers and lobby for investment in rail infrastructure to
further improve rail services. This is a voluntary role. Key tasks undertaken include:
• Handling media inquiries, including interviews for both print and broadcast media.
• Design, implementation of organisation website including custom applications and
integration.
• Analysis of deficiencies in current rail services and producing realistic proposals to
address issues and presentation of such to local communities and political
representatives.
• Engaging with management and consultants in various state agencies to discuss
proposed infrastructural developments.
Summer 2000-
2003
Excellent communication, organisation and engineering problem solving skills were key
Worked as a bank official in Irish Permanent/PermanentTSB for four Summers 2000-2003,
in various branches in Dublin. Carrying out normal transaction processing as well as product
sales, customer service, and telephone queries while providing administrative support to
senior staff.
Cash handling, customer care, banking
Academic Experience
A series of lectures in the field of real time systems, computer networks, network hardware, security and related
topics at postgraduate degree and diploma level given at Trinity College Dublin.
September 2008
- March 2009
February 2008 –
2011
May 2008 -
2011
Real-Time and Embedded Systems - MSc in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing.
Course lecturer and chief examiner.
Computer Networking - Postgraduate Diploma in Health Informatics
Introduction to Networking - MSc Physical Sciences in Medicine

Publications
Peer Reviewed
Non Peer
Reviewed
Mark Gleeson and Stefan Weber, “Towards Optimised Retransmission Reservation in Real-
Time Wireless TDMA”, 8th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks RTN'09,
Dublin, July 2009.
Mark Gleeson and Stefan Weber, “Strengthening Real-Time Communication Support In
Wireless Networks”. Work in Progress Session of the 19th Euromirco Conference on Real-
Time Systems (ECRTS 2007), Pisa, July 2007.
Mark Gleeson and Stefan Weber, “Fault Recovery and Redundancy in Real-time Wireless
TDMA”. Technical Report TCD-CS-2008-24, May 2008.
Barbara Hughes, Mark Gleeson, Marcin Karpinski, Raymond Cunningham, Vinny Cahill,
“Real-Time Communication in IEEE 802.11 Mobile Ad hoc Networks A Feasibility Study”.
Technical Report TCD-CS-2006-55, September 2006.
Project Work
2009 - 2010 Enterprise Ireland funded innovation voucher project between TCD and Fort Technologies
Topics/Skills: Virtualisation, Network Description
2006/8 Planning and migrating to new research infrastructure for the Distributed Systems Group at
TCD, comprising migration to new servers and a CMS based website.
Topics/Skills: IT Systems Administration, Linux, PHP, MySQL, NFS, NIS, Drupal
2005 + 2009 Development of a secure, accountable online voting system for student elections
Topics/Skills: Security, Replication, Linux, PHP, MySQL.
2003 Development of an internet-based secure coursework submission system.
Topics/Skills: Security, Digital Signatures, Mac OS X, PHP, MySQL, GPG
Contribution to Community
2007 - 2008 Postgraduate Representative, Web Management Committee, Trinity College.
2007 - 2009 Assistant to the Registrar of Chambers, Trinity College.
2006 - present Systems Administrator for Graduate Students’ Union, Trinity College
2005 Postgraduate Representative for the Faculty of Engineering, Trinity College.
Additional Activities
• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, MIET.
Referees
• Stephen Barrett, Assistant Professor, Deputy Principal Investigator TCD/NDRC V Learning Project.
Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Email:
stephen.barrett@scss.tcd.ie
• Dr. Stefan Weber: PhD Supervisor. Lecturer and member of Distributed Systems Group, School of
Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Email: stefan.weber@scss.tcd.ie