Ballina-born Liam Quinn gets new accolade to stellar career Dell

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BY ORL4 HEARNS
been named Dell Inventor of Year
for 2005,2007and 2014.
BALLINA man Liam Quinn is
Liam also represents Dell on
celebrating yet another unprecedented
various boards, alliances and
accolade in his long and
groups dealing with global
hugely successful career with the
regulatory and policy matters
leading computer corporation,
relating to spectrum. He is the
Dell.
member of a number
of
Having been promoted last year
engineering advisory boards in
to Dell Fellow - one of just six in
several US universities as well
the entire company - Liam was
and was adjunct professor at the
recently promoted again to Dell
Dublin Institute of Technology,
Vice President and Senior Dell
the University of Texas and Texas
Fellow.
State University
This latest promotion is a
Already a published author on
unique achievement among technicalDell Vice President and Senior Dell the subject of networking, Mr
engineers and represents
Quinn is currently writing a book
Fellow Liam Quinn.
the pinnacle of the engineering
on his current focus which is the
discipline within Dell and
in electrical
and computer
Internet of Things - whereby
bestows Mr Quinn with the
engineering in Dublin and, following household appliances like fridges
responibility for setting the
a period lecturing and working,and other devices can become
technical vision for Dell as well as
moved from Ireland to the US connected to the internet. But
the executive leadership team.
were he attained a Masters degree Liam, who regularly returns
A son of the late Bernard and
in computer engineering and was home to Ballina, maintains that
Betty Quinn of Creggaun,
ultimately recruited by Dell in the key to his phenomenal
Ardnaree, Ballina, Mr Quinn was
Austin, Texas.
international career has been the
educated at Bofield National
He has been with Dell for over foundational elements of a great
School and graduated from
18 years now and holds over 100 education
and
family,
in
Ballina Vocational School in 1976. granted and pending US and particular, the principles that
He went on to obtain BSC degrees
international patents. He has also were instilled by his parents.