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Mr. Stakelum has come into FreeStar on the back of an extensive software localisation background. He holds Bachelor of Commerce Degree and an Advanced Diploma in Systems Analysis and Design from NUI Galway. Mr. Stakelum previously occupied positions of Technical Support and Software Development Engineering at Corel Corporation in Dublin. For many years he served as a Senior Software Localisation Engineer at Corporations such as Microsoft , Lotus, and Symantec in Dublin. He was responsible for overseeing the shipment of various Microsoft products in over 20 languages. Furthermore, he has overseen many developments in internal methodologies at a variety of companies that he has worked with.
Mr. Stakelum joined FreeStar Technology Corporation in 2001 and was made Director in 2002. Since joining FreeStar he has been Project manager for the largest Hardware and Software upgrade ever undertaken in a Finnish payments company in 2003. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Project Management from DBS in Dublin.
Mr. Stakelum, age 37, was appointed to our board of directors in October 2002. Since 2003, he has also served as our Director of European Operations. Mr. Stakelum is an Irish national who holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Hons) with a major in Systems Analysis obtained from University College Galway in 1990. His experience includes a position as a technical support engineer for the Corel Corporation, which he held from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Stakelum's experience also includes the position of localization software engineer, also for the Corel Corporation, for the period 1996 to 1997. He moved to Lotus Inc. in 1997 and remained there until 1999, when he joined Microsoft Inc. as a lead software development engineer (a position he held until the latter part of 2001). From that time to the present, Mr. Stakelum has functioned as an independent consultant. He was previously involved in the localization of MSOffice 2000 and XP in over 20 languages.
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