Major Barry Byrne is a Communications and Information Services officer in Irish Defence Forces Headquarters, Dublin. He is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of Trinity College Dublin. Barry is leading an internationally acclaimed programme developing policies, procedures and technological solutions to improve Information and Knowledge Management in the Irish Defence Forces. This programme grew out of years of academic and empirical research conducted for his master’s thesis and has won numerous international awards. The technical platform, delivered through SharePoint 2013 provides full EDRMS capabilities, enterprise social, innovative knowledge management solutions, and has been recognised by international military and corporate organisations. Barry has served in a variety of roles overseas with the United Nations; Logistics in Liberia in 2006, chief ICT officer in 2007 in Lebanon and civil-military coordination and operations officer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2011.