Meet Clarity PM Consulting's Founder
Since his first year studying construction project management in school for state exams, on the very first day of planning his first project Seán was hooked on the process and knew his career as an adult lay very much in professional project management.
That was 34 years ago, and today Seán is even more in love with project management than ever. Completing numerous certs and diplomas in the profession over the years, culminating in a Masters Degree in 2012, becoming a proud member of the Association for Project Management Professionals and the PMI!
Over the years his career has involved all kinds of projects from IT, Data Centre Builds and Operations, Oil and Gas, Telescommunications, Banking and Finance to Aviation and Media/Film Production, to setting up and running Project Offices that better help to streamline and assist project management teams adhere to well established project management standards and best practices.
A Prince2 and PMBoK best practices practitioner, along with bringing countless projects to succesfful conclusion using other methodologies, Seán took the reigns of Project Offices at IBM, training several Project Office Managers for multiple departments within IBM and subsequently helping setup many new external 'Project Offices & Systems' upon leaving IBM in 2012.
Founder of several successful small businesses, Seán is a strong believer that people and culture are the core fiber to every project's and business' success, always striving to find the best people that attract A+++ players to the team, and make the most of everyone's strengths to completely mitigate weaknesses for a total success outcome.
"I believe in people, because people get the job done, everything else is a means to an end, mere tools to assist us in achieving and streamlining our goals and outcomes."
"No matter what size of project, duration, type or location, I always bring 100% of my energy, focus and experience to the table, as well as a wide network of business and technical resources."
In 2022 when his wife got cancer for the first time, Seán founded a new voluntary initiative with a vision to help people cope with the trauma of cancer through the therapeutic healing power of music. Beacons of Hope™ was launched in 2025 and this spare time altruistic endeavour has led to a wonderful project that will see some incredible music and songs released on Vinyl in the near future with all proceeds going to cancer support charities such as CanTeen Ireland.
As a keen amateur astronomer, Seán founded and chairs the Boyne Valley Astronomical Society in 2023, is on the management team of the Astrophotography Club Ireland and is currently working on a PhD in Astrophysics in his spare time.
Seán studied for his Masters in Project Management at Robert Gordon University in from 2009 to 2012 having previous completed numerous professional and academic body certificate and diplomas in the profession since 2005.
See a comprehensive history of Seán's experience and methodologies here