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 Nationality: British

§ Date of Birth: 28/01/1978

§ Place of Birth: Epsom, Surrey

§ Full, Clean Driving Licence

Education

The Nottingham Trent University

 1996 - Date The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

§ BSc Computing Studies:

Year 1:
IT Applications 61 2:1
Information Systems 57 2:2
Software Implementation 1 51 2:2
Developing Professional Skills 67 2:1
Computer Technology 1 51 2:2
Applied Mathematics 40 3
Data Modelling & Database Design 48 3
Problem Solving & Software Design 57 2:2
Software Implementation 2 40 3
Developing Group Interaction Skills 40 3
Computer Technology 2 53 2:2
System Implementation 45 3
Overall: 51 2:2
Year 2:
Database Management Systems 41 3
Data Structures    
Distributed Systems 40 3
Maths for Software Engineering 40 3
Systems Methodologies 38  
Systems Software 46 3
Advanced Program Design 52 2:2
Business Computer Interaction 65 2:1
Case Tools 66 2:1
Formal Methods 36  
Functional Programming 40 3
Group Project 67 2:1
Overall: 47 3
The Peter Symonds College 1994 - 1996 Peter Symonds' College, Winchester, Hampshire

§ A Levels:

Computing C
Graphical Communication D
Geography D

§ BTEC GNVQ Information Technology Level 3

The Henry Beaufort School

 1989 - 1994 The Henry Beaufort School, Winchester, Hampshire

§ GCSE's:

Art and Design D
Design & Communication D
English Literature C
English Language B
French E
Geography B
Mathematics C
Double Science C C
Work Experience

Winchester City Council

 19/04/1993 - 30/04/1993 Winchester City Council

Graphical Office Assistant

§ Assisted in graphics & planning departments, Operated graphical machinery, Helped in production of leaflets and other promotional material.
Employment

Sainsburys

 1994 - 02/01/1998 Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, Winchester

Checkout Operator / Stock Level Controller

§ Over three years of reliable service in busy retailer where I operate ICL EFT POS. terminals. Commended for my efficiency and politeness by customers I have served. Gained cash handling skills.

Lucent Technologies

 10/08/1998 - Date Lucent Technologies, Malmesbury, Swindon

Placement Student

§ Currently on an industrial placement in the Switching department for a year, where I am building a web front-end to a number of databases and Unix tools. The projects involve designing easy to use web pages to replace elements of exisitng dated UNIX interfaces. The web solutions offer easy access to formally dated UNIX Interfaces by reducing the number of tool interactions through automation. New solutions are built by combining output from a range of databases. and This inloves a parent to child relationship that requires writing Unix shell scripts with embedded SQL and Perl CGI scripts that .
Community activities Helped at local Cub Scout Unit meetings for several months.
References
Mr Dermot O' Sullivan   Mrs Sharon Webster
Computing Placement Tutor   Personnel Officer
The Nottingham Trent University   Sainsbury's
Burton Street   Badger Farm
Nottingham   Winchester
NG1 4BU   Hampshire
Tel: (0115) 9418418 x2188   SO22 4QB
E-mail: [email protected]   Tel: (01962) 867896
Objective To serve in a company where my computing skills can be applied to challenging problems where there is opportunity to be creative. Also hope to gain skills of the workplace and advance my knowledge in computing.
Interests and activities Venture Scouts: Active member of Venture Scouts, have been chairman of the unit where I attended a Getting Organised Course which developed team building, communication skills, leadership and problem solving skills among others. Undertook Duke Of Edinburgh Bronze Award. Completed a British Red Cross Society emergency first aid course.

Travel: Well travelled, have spent 5 years living on Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Also visited South Africa, USA, and parts of Europe.

Music: Former member of promotion team on University radio station KICK FM. Keen interest in music, particularly enjoy listening to dance music and help in making electronic music with my brother using MIDI equipment. Also maintain a popular unofficial band web-site.

Sport: Enjoy various recreations particularly football, badminton and mountain biking, which generally help in keeping fit.

IT Skills

  Type Typical use Frequency
Hardware IBM PC Carry out all work, very well experienced. Everyday
  Amiga Making music with OctaMED Infrequent
  Sun Sparcs Transparent to users, but have used to check e-mail. Occasional
  Apple Mac To browse the Internet Infrequent
Software Microsoft Word 97 Write all work documents. 1-150 page reports conforming to set standards. Simple use of WORD BASIC macros for amending a database using a series of forms and sorting into alphabetic order. Templates, Drawing Tools and Web facilities also used. Regularly
  Netscape Navigator 4.07 & Internet Explorer 3.1, 4.0 Browsing the Internet for research purposes and for keeping my website up-to-date. Also use Microsoft Exchange and Netscape Mail for e-mailing. V-Frequent
  Microsoft FrontPage 97 & Netscape Composer Composed all pages of my website, WYSIWYG editors offer considerable time saving over hand coding the raw HTML, however often there is a need to edit code manually. V-Frequent
  Java & JavaScript For programming simple standalone and distributed software packages. Also use as simple JavaScript on website pages such as scrolling text and to offer real time HTML form input validation. Frequent
  Perl Used to code CGI script where a programming language is needed. Common task is to format HTML form input, run appropriate functions depening on the value entered, then interigate a nightly data dump from a numer of databases. The returned output is as an HTML webpage that is formatted as a series of tables with real time generated hyperlinks. Frequent
  CGI using CGIWRAP Implementation of a web front-end to Unix tools and databases acheived through using CGI scripts containing Ksh Unix commands, Perl & JavaScript. The CGIWRAP service is used as a dubugger to fix CGI script errors. V-Frequent
  Borland C++ 4.5, 5.0 For programming software such as a graphical editor and various small programs. Also in data structures Heap, Expression Tree, and Weighted Graph ADT's. Programs of 1-10 include files, 4 levels of inheritance, up to 600 lines of code. Frequent
  Turbo Pascal 7 Programmed during A-Level computing course, writing simple programs. Infrequent
  Select SSADM To model systems, for software analysis and design in system methodologies. Also use in Case Tools module. Around 5-6 entities. Occasional
  Fox Pro 2.0 & Borland Paradox 4.5 Use of queries, scripts, SQL, menu builder etc in implementation of a Squash Club Membership program for a team project of 5 members. Infrequent
  Access 97 To implement databases, using SQL for queries, joins etc Also maintain database as an organiser of telephone numbers. Occasional
  Adobe PhotoShop 5 & Corel Draw 4 Touching up scanned images and any graphic design especially for artwork used on website pages. V-Frequent
  Real Audio Encoder/Real Producer To provide on demand streamed audio and video content on my website, this means recording audio as WAV format then encoding as RA format. These RA files are linked via a RAM file for transmission through the HTTP protocol. Frequent
Op-Sys Windows NT 4.0 As a client server terminal in University computer labs. V-Frequent
  Windows 95, 3.1 At home and during placment year, very experienced in using both either offline or networked. V-Frequent
  MSDOS File handling such as zipping files, editing simple batch files. Quite experienced. Occasional
  Unix Experienced gathered over my placement year and through Computer Based Training Courses. Have written hundreds of lines Unix Shell script using Ksh commands to implement database extraction routines. Frequent
E-Mail [email protected] (If you require my mailing address to enquire feel free to request it via e-mail.)

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