Meet the Team
Meet our Specialised Technology for Education Team
Did you know that Wriggle created an expert team specifically to cater to the technology for education needs of schools and colleges?
As well as a large, in-house Technology and Customer service team of more than 70 industry experts, Wriggle has a dedicated Education Solution Specialist team and 3 full-time teachers on staff, with over 80 teachers working on contract with us to deliver expert training in technology for learning and digital strategy and development planning to Irish schools and colleges.
With over 240 years’ combined specialised experience in the technology, logistics, customer service and teaching and learning industries, meet the leaders of our expert team.
Your Dedicated Management Team
Paul Dooley
Chief Executive Officer, Wriggle
21 years’ experience leading two of Ireland’s top tech companies, Sentrix and Wriggle as CEO.
Joe Duignan
Chief Operating Officer, Wriggle
27 years’ experience successfully growing company operations across the retail, finance, training and IT sector.
Beryl Furlong
Director, Wriggle
Founder of Wriggle with 24 years’ experience successfully supporting and managing Irish schools’ and colleges’ technology programs.
Simon Close
Chief Revenue Officer, Wriggle
Co-founder of Wriggle with 15 years experience successfully managing and supporting Irish school’s technology programs.
Seán Glynn
Chief Learning Officer, Wriggle
Qualified teacher with 20 years’ experience teaching, training and leading digital strategy planning and successful technology program deployment for Irish schools.
Ray McCutcheon
Head of Customer Experience, Wriggle
24 years’ experience building and leading high-performing service and success organisations across IT and global customer operations.
John Lanigan
Technical Operations Manager, Wriggle
21 years’ experience leading highly skilled teams of tech engineers to successfully deploy, secure, support and manage end user technology.
Aoife McEvoy
Head of Procurement & Supply Chain, Wriggle
16 years’ experience successfully managing the purchasing, logistics and supply of products from distributors through to end users across the tech and retail industries.
Our Technology Team Leads
Our large in-house tech team are trained and certified by the leading technology giants and have all the capabilities and experience to ensure your school technology is set up, managed and updated to the highest standards. Meet our technology team leads.
Dave O'Brien
Lead iOS Engineer, Wriggle
27 years experience successfully managing the configuration, deployment and support of schools’ and colleges’ 1:1 Apple technology program.
Matt Juszczak
Lead Windows and Chrome Engineer, Wriggle
7 years experience leading the deployment and configuration of windows and chrome devices to 1:1 Irish schools with Wriggle.
Your local education specialists
Our experienced Education Solution Specialists have helped 100s of Irish school leaders in your area to successfully plan for and integrate technology into their schools to enhance teaching and learning.
Dave Ryan
Sales Operations Manager
13 years experience managing and supporting sales operations at Sentrix and Wriggle, ensuring successful and effective technology deployment and support.
Dean O Kelly
Education Solution Specialist
10 years experience supporting the successful and effective deployment of technology to Irish schools and colleges.
Joanna Smith
Partner Marketing Manager
Qualified teacher with 14 years experience teaching and 8 years experience running digital strategy events & creating resources to support successful technology integration in schools.
Book your FREE consultation
Why not schedule a free no-obligation consultation with your local Education Solution Specialist today and get expert guidance and access to a range of tailored solutions to suit your school, including:
- Exclusive Discounts on Rugged School Laptops and Tablets
- Flexible payment options to suit any budget
- School Leaders’ Digital Strategy planning workshops and advice
- Effective training in technology for learning for teachers, parents and students
- Expert setup and safe management of student devices and school platforms
- Access to our loaner device programme to trial devices in your school
- Staff places at our extremely popular training events and webinars
- Access to a comprehensive library of technology for learning resources and supports
Your local technology for learning teacher trainers
Wriggle’s teaching and learning team is led by our Chief Learning Officer, Seán Glynn and Head of Educator Development, Jamie Johnston. With 20+ years of teaching experience and 17 years experience training and guiding schools, Sean and Jamie have helped 100s of schools and 1000s of educators to create and action a successful digital strategy plan for their school.
Seán Glynn
Chief Learning Officer, Wriggle
Qualified teacher with 20 years’ experience teaching, training and leading digital strategy planning and successful technology program deployment for Irish schools.
Jamie Johnston
Head of Educator Development, Wriggle
Qualified teacher with 15 years’ experience teaching, training and leading digital strategy planning and successful technology program deployment for Irish schools.
Meet our nationwide Wriggle Connect Ambassador Team
Together with our team of over 80 teachers based in every county in Ireland, our teaching and learning team has created 1000s of bite-sized training tutorials and 100s of courses on our platform, Wriggle Connect, to help teachers, parents and students to increase their confidence and competence in using technology tools to enhance learning.
