I am a qualified Telecommunications Engineer, having graduated with honours from DCU in 2002. Following that, I completed a two-year MSc in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). I have a PG Cert in Energy Management, which covers all aspects of energy e.g. sustainability, alternative energy supply technologies, energy purchasing, etc.

From September 2004 until September 2006, I worked as a Technical Training Consultant with Ericsson, teaching mobile technology courses to Ericsson staff and customers worldwide. From September 2006 to December 2008, I worked as a Senior Core Operations engineer with O2. The main purpose of my job was to provide third line, on-call support to O2′s packet core network to ensure high-availability of services for customers and staff.

I am currently (from January 2009) doing research in the area of autonomic networks (the concept of autonomic network management (ANM) offers a framework to manage various network functionalities in an autonomic way without requiring active human intervention). Until March 2011, I was working on a successful, pan-European project called “MAGNETO”, which designed and implemented a distributed, autonomic management framework for home area networks (HANs).

Since March (2011), I am investigating the opportunities in ICT and the Smart Grid as part of newly formed FI-PPP project “FINSENY” (Future INternet Smart Energy). This project brings together key actors from the ICT and energy sectors to identify the ICT requirements of Smart Energy Systems.

-          Green ICT, Smart Energy, Smart Grid

-          Autonomic network management

-          Future Internet

J. Kielthy , K. Quinn, R. Toribio, P. Arozarena, S. Handurukande, M. Garcia Mateos, M. Zach Design of a HAN Autonomic Control Loop in proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments, MACE 2010, Niagara Falls, Canada, October 28, 2010.

C. Kulatunga, J. Kielthy, D. Botvich, W. Donnelly Exploiting the In-Network Capabilities of Multicast to Discover Proximate IPTV Channels Future Internet Journal 2010, 2, 431-445.

P. Arozarena, R. Toribio, J. Kielthy, K. Quinn, M. Zach, Probabilistic Fault Diagnosis in the MAGNETO Autonomic Control Loop in proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, June 21-25, 2010.

C. Kulatunga, J. Kielthy, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlú, Implementation of a Simple Bandwidth Broker for DiffServ Networks in proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Inter-Domain Performance and Simulation, IPS 2004, Budapest, Hungary, March 22-23, 2004.

J. Kielthy, R. Frisby, M. Ó Foghlú, An evaluation of QoS provisioning for a UBR application in a DiffServ Network in proceedings of the 3rd Information Technology and Telecommunications Conference, IT&T 2003, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland, October 22-23, 2003 PDF

J. Kielthy, R. Frisby, M. Ó Foghlú, An initial investigation into QoS provisioning in a DiffServ Network in proceedings of the 2nd IEE/IEEE Telecommunications Systems Research Symposium, ITSRS 2003, Dublin, Ireland, May 6, 2003.

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member
- Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2011)

- Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS 2011)

- Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN 2010)

Current Study 
Post-Graduate Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Cork Road, Waterford, Ireland
Qualification Masters Degree in Science (MSc)
Course MSc in Sustainable Energy Engineering, active

Qualifications                         
Post-Graduate Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Kevin Street, Dublin, Ireland
Qualification Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert)
Course PG Cert in Energy Management, graduated 2010

Post-Graduate Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Cork Road, Waterford, Ireland
Qualification Masters Degree in Science (MSc)
Course MSc by Research, graduated 2004
Thesis QoS in Converging Networks: Implementation of an IPv4 / IPv6 QoS DiffServ Bandwidth Broker

Under-graduate Dublin City University (DCU), Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
Qualification Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications (BEng)
Course BEng in Telecommunication Engineering, graduated 2002 (2:2)