About Us
Dovetail was founded in 2002 by Trevor Jobling and Martin
Wallace.
Martin has over 20 years commercial experience in the IT
industry. He has developed mission critical software for the
retail, wholesale and financial services sectors on Unix and
Windows, using a range of languages and technologies.
Martin's IT career began in Musgrave/SuperValu/Centra where he was lead
analyst, developer and team leader for its core group buying and
central billing systems' development. These systems are used to
manage pricing and ordering for wholesale and retail aspects of
Musgrave's billion-euro business.
After Musgrave, Martin joined RTE, where he was the sole
engineer responsible for modernising their enterprise financial
system. This project, which took 18 months, received a commendation
from PriceWaterhouse for coming in before time and under
budget.
Martin then went on to become Technical Manager for RTE Interactive, overseeing its
growth into Ireland's most popular free news and information site,
before co-founding Dovetail Technologies in 2002.
Martin holds a degree in Computer Applications from the Cork
Institute of Technology.
Trevor has over 15 years commercial IT experience. He has
developed bespoke solutions for small and medium enterprises
covering sectors as diverse as recruitment, travel and sports, as
well as working for larger organisations such as Citibank.
Before founding Dovetail Technologies, Trevor was the Lead
Developer in RTÉ Interactive. Among other projects he developed the
Content Management System used by journalists and editors to
populate www.rte.ie and
Aertel (Teletext). Skills include object orientated design and
development in a variety of languages, database design,
requirements analysis web application development.
He previously worked on data migration projects (Citibank) and telecoms billing
systems (Conduit)
Trevor has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.