Michael Rudden is CONNECT Programme Manager at Tyndall National Institute in Cork.

Michael has been a programme and project manager in Accenture, S3 Group, and GoS Networks, Cyantel Ltd. and Statistical Solutions Ltd., managing innovation and technology groups and development teams for telecommunications and life science industries.

In the mid 1990’s Michael worked as a research scientist in the National Microelectronics Research Centre (now Tyndall National Institute), specializing in research on photovoltaic and alternative energy applications.

Michael is a graduate of University College Cork with a B.E. (1987) and M.Eng.Sc. (1990) in Electrical Engineering.