My CV is available for download in Word format here

Qualifications achieved:

Year 1996-2000 1994-1996 1989-1994

Level Degree A Level GCSE

Subject Computer Science - Upper second Computer Science Art Chemistry General Studies 5Bs, 3Cs, 1D

Additional Skills

The following is an overview of the key skills obtained during the years spent in either A levels, University or working in the Industry:

• Programming: C, Modula-2, Smalltalk, Visual Basic 5 and 6, VBA, Java JDK 1.2, JavaScript 1.1, SQL and Haskell.

• Microsoft: Works, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Visio, Outlook and Outlook Express. (Office ’97 and 2000).

• Internet: HTML 4.0, Applets, Hot Dog, FrontPage ’98 and 2000, FTP, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Apache.

• Graphics Tools: Paint Shop Pro 5/6/7, Adobe PhotoShop, PhotoDraw 2000, Macromedia Flash and Director.

• Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 3.1 / ’95 / ‘98 / 2000 / NT and Unix.

• Miscellaneous: Liberate’s DTV Suite, NT/Exchange Administrators, Select SSADM, Pegasus Mail and other less mainstream applications and IDEs.

• Courses: Consulting Skills 1 (3 days), Consulting Skills 2 (3 days), FrontPage ’98 (1 day).

At this interactive TV games development company in Kensington, it is my role to use JavaScript and HTML to produce games for the Liberate platform of digital TV Set-Top-Box used by NTL/Telewest. This entails working with graphics, and programming the underlying functionality to produce fully working, multi-player, pay-per-play quiz games.

On a six-month contract, using JavaScript/HTML and working as part of a three-man team, through research and discussions on communication between client and server architectures, I developed a series of cutting edge, experimental applications. From this, I also gained a greater understanding of Liberate’s DTV platform used for set-top boxes in interactive TV.

This temporary job included NT and Exchange administration for the Council and solving problems raised by schools. It required a great deal of communication in a calm manner due to the number of schools within Essex and the urgent problems they encountered. I feel this was useful in gaining a different perspective of IT than my usual programming viewpoint.

The job role was to maintain, update and provide support for mission critical tools for Microsoft Consulting Services. This directly gave me skills in Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications as well as Access and SQL. I also gained a greater understanding of the repercussions involving Y2K issues through participating in discussions and helping identify problematic projects. The role regularly involved human interaction to either provide help or discuss improvements/problems with the tools and their usage; this greatly improved my communication skills and maturity. Over time I gained an understanding of the business and work environment, and soon realised the importance of deadlines and time management.

I enjoy most sports and play football occasionally. I belong to two snooker/pool clubs and therefore play quite regularly, and enjoy racquet sports when weather permits. I also use my own computer for both work and recreation. I often watch films at the cinema or home and like to try different restaurants. At the end of last year, I went to Australia for a month.

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