About Dermot Carmody

Dermot Carmody has been working as a web designer and developer since 1997. He has designed and built corporate sites and personal sites for a range of clients from the worlds of business and entertainment. Dermot has also produced multimedia CD-ROMS, authoring in Flash and Director, and is an experienced digital audio music producer. See the Portfolio page for recent web site examples.

Dermot is committed to using clean functional HTML and CSS in conjunction with open source CMS options such as WordPress and Joomla to provide cost effective professional web solutions for his clients.

ShakaBang

Dermot is a director of ShakaBang Ltd., a Dublin company formed to create high quality children’s music and media, and a performer and musician.

Mobile

In 2005/6 Dermot was co-founder and director the Irish Comedy Channel Ltd. (ICC) a company formed to produce comedy content for mobile. The ICC’s content was distributed through 02, Vodafone & Meteor. It consisted of some licensed content from external providers along with content, chiefly voice tones, devised and produced in-house. The latter featured well-known Irish comedy talent including Jason Byrne, Joe Rooney, PJ Gallagher, Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly and others. Dermot’s role in the ICC was chiefly creative, producing the ringtones and working on development of ICC WAp and iPhone applications.

Radio/TV

Dermot has worked as a writer and broadcaster with his work broadcast in Ireland and the UK. His play “Galvin’s Cross” was broadcast on RTE radio in 2005 and worked as a writer on the BBC3 TV comedy pilot “Be More Asian”, broadcast in 2007. Dermot was script editor of the RTE radio 1 series “Bull island” for which he also wrote. He also co-wrote the 30 episodes of Chatherine Maher’s radio soap “Driftwood”, broadcast in 2005.

Other Writing

Dermot worked as a columnist for Hotpress and has worked as a freelance copywriter. The Irish Times also published his article about his own pioneering appearance as a performer in an LA comedy club. Dermot performed live from his Dublin apartment in 1997 using MS NetMeeting and a 28.8 modem dialup connection. Astoundingly, it worked.