Deirdre is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Deirdre joined I-Form in May 2023, from her recent role as Financial Controller for Hanley Automation. Prior to that she worked as a financial controller for Avectas, a research & development company where she gained over 4 years of experience in grant applications and grant management with research funders such as European Commission, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Enterprise Ireland and Interreg Europe.

Deirdre is responsible for the financial management of grants in I-Form to include the co-ordination and consolidation of institutional budgets and reports to the Centre's key stakeholders.