Caroline Corkery is a Career Guidance teacher at Clongowes Wood College located in Abbey, Galway. When comparing Caroline Corkery's ratings to other teachers in the county of Galway, Caroline Corkery's ratings are above the average of 4.33 stars. Additionally, the average teacher rating at Clongowes Wood College is 4.44 stars.
very dedicated always looking to help you in any way possible. very good at gettinf speakers to come to the school
A bit of a step up from our last career counseller! very sharp, this woman knows the inside story. Shes nice aswell
Hosted annually by IECRM (Independent Electrical Contractors Rocky Mountain), the Career Fair features a variety of great companies hiring for many in-demand positions offering great career opportunities for men and women from entry-level to management, electrical apprentices, journeyman electricians, project management, warehouse workers, drivers, and more.
JOB SEEKERS: Meet directly with local employers holding interviews on-site. You could potentially leave with a job!
VETERAN JOB SEEKERS: Meet with employers looking to hire veterans. It’s men and women like you that can find a new home within the construction trade and business industry.
STUDENTS: This is a chance for new electrical students to visit the brand new IECRM state-of-the-art facility, tour the classrooms and labs, meet instructors and staff, and learn more about the Four-Year Electrical Apprentice Program.
Start your new career as an electrician in Denver, Ft. Collins, or Online! With Colorado’s high demand for electrical workers, this skilled trade offers great paying jobs. Work full time as an apprentice in the field while you go to school only 1 night a week, and begin your career debt-free.
EMPLOYERS: Booths are available to IECRM Members in good standing as a complimentary member benefit. Please contact Mary Beth Armbruster (marybeth@iecrm.org) with questions.
Marilyn Akers Stansbury was named CEO of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Independent Electrical Contractors (IECRM) in 2015. IECRM is Colorado’s top electrical and renewable energy trade association and the largest IEC electrical apprenticeship training program in the country. Marilyn is a long-time executive leader and change advocate, she has moved complex initiatives from vision to sustainability by reflecting the basic importance of people as the secret sauce in making change stick. For the past 30 years, she’s brought her special brand of leadership to bear on creating teams of equals that work as one powerful force to unlock an organization and sustain its potential.
As Chief Financial Officer, Kori Hemans acts as the primary financial point person at IECRM. She oversees every aspect of financial management, legal issues, and human resource activities. She has spent the past 20 years engulfed in Accounting and Finance, and she “loves all aspects of the craziness.”
Kori is a Denver native who wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. She and her husband, Aaron, are proud parents of a son named Aiden, and a daughter named Reagan, who both keep them laughing and on their toes at all times. Kori loves creating crafts and spending time with her family.
Mary Beth Armbruster, Director of Operations & Member Services, is responsible for serving the members of IECRM, business development, corporate member relations, and overseeing daily operations of the association. She joined IECRM in spring of 2016 after serving as a membership consultant for two years, preceeded by 20 years creating and managing successful and large membership programs in the museum field.
Paul Lingo, Training Director, is a Journeyman Electrician who oversees all IECRM instructors and assists in providing the necessary planning and implementation for all training-related activities (both classroom-based and web-based). Paul oversees curriculum enhancements, supplementary training materials and equipment, and the ongoing development of lab facilities and exercises. He implements IECRM’s workforce development initiatives, and in the creation and execution of a wide variety of other specific training classes and programs. Paul serves as First Year SME (Subject Matter Expert) for IEC National.
Paul was born in Billings, Montana. He is a US Navy Veteran – Landing Signalman and Search and Recovery Swimmer. Paul is a proud parent.
Annette Gauna, Training Manager, recently celebrated her 18th year at IECRM. Annette manages the day to day needs of students in the Apprenticeship and Training Program and in Career College classes. She manages class registration, grades, and attendance. Annette coordinates Graduation for Fourth Year Apprentices, and manages the Live-Online Apprenticeship Program. For the past ten years, Annette has volunteered at Colorado Construction Career Days.
Annette has a seven year old son named Jamez whom she is very proud of. Annette is a Denver native, and she spends much of her time exploring new places in Denver with her son, and visiting family in California and Trinidad, Colorado. Her future goal is to learn Spanish as a second language with her son (who knows more than her, by the way).
Katie Shobe, Marketing Manager has an extensive background in the offset and digital print industry. She served in many roles including prepress operator, graphic designer, marketing consultant, sales representative, customer service representative, and operations manager. Being recruited to serve as Marketing Manager for IECRM has opened up the opportunity to pursue her passions for creative writing, coordinating events, web design, video production, and most exciting of all, to give back to the community and create awareness about the many programs that IECRM offers to benefit our U.S. veterans, emerging business leaders, contractors, industry partners, and students. To be able to witness and be a part of such a positive force is something that she is truly proud of!
Katie is a Colorado native that enjoys spending her free-time exploring and going on adventures with her two sons, ages 8 and 10. Next on her list to explore is Disneyland and Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California and the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM. She hopes that her passion to give back to the community is passed along to her two sons.
Terri Reynolds, Compliance Manager, will implement and maintain the Registered Apprenticeship Program, assist contractor members and students with registrations/cancellations, OJT, certificate requests, hire lists and compliance reporting to EGTC, DOL & DORA. Previously, Terri was our Administrative Specialist here at IECRM for almost two years. She was employed at SimplexGrinnell for 16 years, with the last 7 years as the Western Operations Executive Assistant. Prior to that was at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA for 13 years as Administrative Assistant supporting five Advertising Managers.
Terri grew up in the California Bay Area, and has been in Colorado for 18 years. She will be married to her wonderful husband Bob for 18 years, and they have three beautiful boys and three beautiful grandkids. Terri belongs to a wonderful group called the Colorado Patriot Guards, giving support to our veterans and their families.
A post-processing method suitable for low bit rate spatial domain block-coded images is described. An adaptive filtering process is employed to reduce the visually annoying artefacts introduced from compression. The decision-based filtering uses an estimation of the local characteristics of the coded image. For the areas of low image detail a smoothing operator is used; whereas in the high image d... View full abstract»
The blocking effect is known to be the major degradation in block based video compression techniques. In this paper, we describe an adaptive postprocessing algorithm for the reduction of blocking effect in video coded sequences. It is based on a visual model for the prediction of blockiness visibility. The postfiltering operation is based on a 3D adaptive filter. A space-variant spatial filter is ... View full abstract»
We investigate a new postprocessing approach to reduce blocking artifacts in DCT-based video compression. Because blocking artifacts occur due to quantization of DCT coefficients, we effectively adjust the low-order DCT coefficients to remove discontinuities at block corners in smooth areas of the image. For blocking in detailed areas of the image, we camouflage black corners by adding a noisy dit... View full abstract»
Block transform coding is widely used in image and video compression methods. Due to quantization error, there are blocking artifacts in the decoded image. This paper presents a pre-processing method, called pre-distortion, to reduce both the bit rate and blocking artifacts. The proposed algorithm is an iterative algorithm which reduces the blocking artifacts of the decoded image by introducing di... View full abstract»
The major artifacts of the JPEG compressed images are blocking and ringing, which are mainly due to the coarse quantization of low frequency and high frequency DCT components, respectively. At a very low bit rate, these artifacts might be rather disturbing to human eyes. While research for reduction of blocking effects has been relatively extensively conducted, little has been done for improving r... View full abstract»
In this paper, a non-iterative post-processing method is proposed to restore the images encoded with block-based compression standards such as JPEG. This method classifies small local boundary regions according to their intensity distribution and then select appropriate linear predictors to estimate the corresponding boundary pixels in the regions. This approach is easy to implement and we found i... View full abstract»
With limited additional effort, one can obtain valuable information on the subjective performance of image compression schemes. The choice of an appropriate experimental technique, however, is not always trivial. We show that the different nature of the artifacts introduced by different coders causes problems when evaluations are carried out using direct numerical category scaling. We demonstrate ... View full abstract»
A joint source-channel coding technique is proposed for transmitting grey-level images over a binary channel with additive Markov noise. In this scheme, inherent or residual (after source coding) image redundancy is exploited at the receiver in an appropriately designed MAP detector. Two methods are presented. The first method relies on MAP decoding of uncompressed bit-plane encoded images. The se... View full abstract»
Astronomical images currently provide large amounts of data. Lossy compression algorithms have recently been developed for high compression ratios. These compression techniques introduce distortion in the compressed images and for high compression ratios, a blocking effect appears. A new algorithm based on the regularization theory is proposed for the restoration of such lossy compressed astronomi... View full abstract»
Error concealment of still image and video streams with multi-directional recursive nonlinear filters
A novel approach for error concealment in block-based image and video coding systems over the ATM networks is presented. This new approach aims at reconstructing the lost pixels in the intra-coded frames by spatial interpolation of the nearest undamaged pixels with a recursive multi-directional nonlinear filtering scheme. The lost interframe information are also reconstructed by using robust nonli... View full abstract»
A postprocessing algorithm is proposed to reduce the blocking artifacts of joint photographic experts group (JPEG) decompressed images. The reconstructed images from JPEG compression produce noticeable image degradation near the block boundaries, in particular, for highly compressed images because each block is transformed and quantized independently. The reduction of these blocking effects has be... View full abstract»
A spline-based adaptive filter for the removal of blocking artifacts in image sequences coded at very low bitrate
In this paper, a method for the reduction of blocking effect in image sequences coded at very low bitrate is presented. The proposed operator is capable of adapting its behaviour to the local characteristics of the images. In areas containing details, the degradation introduced by block-based coding is often masked by the texture itself and a satisfactory visual effect can be achieved by simply le... View full abstract»
In ATM networks cell loss causes data to be dropped in the channel. When digital video is transmitted over these networks one must be able to reconstruct the missing data so that the impact of these errors is minimized. In this paper we describe a Bayesian approach to conceal these errors. Assuming that the digital video has been encoded using the MPEG1 or MPEG2 compression scheme, each frame is m... View full abstract»
A projection-based post-processing technique to reduce blocking artifact using a priori information on DCT coefficients of adjacent blocks
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In the area of robotic vision we are interested in developing algorithms for the control of a robot manipulator by means of visual feedback. Image analysis and exploitation of the image features are therefore steps of importance. This paper deals with the problem of three-dimensional localization of objects representing circular patterns. The first part of the paper is concerned with the parametri... View full abstract»
We propose a new technique of rate control for very low bit rate video coding for visual telephony. The scheme is optimized for a video coder conforming to the H.263 standard and outperforms the linear rate control scheme used in the test model in terms of visual performance and frame jerkiness at the output. The rate control scheme,is designed for a variable bit-rate and variable frame rate coder... View full abstract»
A new transform, called the rounding transform (RT), is introduced which employs a pair of rounding operations namely, rounding up and rounding down operations. The RT is of interest in pyramid data structured coding for progressive and lossless image transmission, since the total number of data to be transmitted is the same as that of the original without overhead bits and since it has the advant... View full abstract»
We present a control scheme for a rate scalable video codec. We describe a wavelet based video codec with motion compensation used to reduce temporal redundancy. The prediction error frames are encoded using an embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) approach which allows data rate scalability. Since motion compensation is used in the algorithm, the duality of the decoded video may decay due to the propag... View full abstract»
A new rate control scheme is used to calculate the target bit rate for each frame based on a quadratic formulation of the rate distortion function. The distortion measure are assumed to be either the average quantization scale of a frame or mean square error. The rate distortion function is modeled as a second order function of the inverse of the distortion measure. We presented a closed form solu... View full abstract»
In this paper, we present a fast and optimal method for the lossy encoding of object boundaries which are given as 8-connect chain codes. We approximate the boundary by a polygon and consider the problem of finding the polygon which can be encoded with the smallest number of bits for a given maximum distortion. The presented scheme is an extension of the approaches introduced in [l, 2], in that th... View full abstract»
We propose a hybrid fractal wavelet coder (FWC) which adopts adaptive fractal prediction in the wavelet domain and wavelet coding in this research. This new compression scheme uses wavelet coding as the core component, and applies contractive mapping (or the so-called fractal prediction) whenever it offers additional rate savings. A model based rate-distortion (R-D) criterion of low complexity is ... View full abstract»
We examine the problem of reconstructing a signal from periodic non-uniform samples, i.e. a uniform train from which samples are deleted in some periodic fashion. We develop the necessary and sufficient conditions for reconstruction, both for one and multiple dimensions. We prove that one-dimensional multiband signals which have arbitrary frequency support can be sampled without loss arbitrarily c... View full abstract»
This paper presents a frame-work for joint source-channel coding of images over time-varying wireless channels. The source coding algorithm produces an embedded bit-stream to support decoders at different bandwidths. The embedded (source) bit-stream produced is prioritized with bits arranged in order of visual importance. The subjective quality of compressed images improves significantly by the us... View full abstract»
This paper presents a near-lossless image compression system where the coded image is within some prespecified maximum error of the original image at each and every pixel. The system is predictive and codes the image one row at a time. The encoder uses the Viterbi algorithm to choose among all admissible reproductions for the given image row the one that can be described with the fewest number of ... View full abstract»