Skills |
Core SkillsASPs (VBscript) , HTML , DHTML , CSS , Javascript , Visual BASIC , Relational databases , SQL (MS Access) , SQL (MS SQL Server 7+) , Pascal , Delphi , SCSI Systems , PC Hardware Diagnostics , Multi-processor Systems , Networks (10/100BaseT) , MS IIS 4/5 , SMTP Protocol , Domain transfers/renewals , VBA Marcos , E-commerce SystemsSecondary SkillsASP.Net , C# , Java , Windows NT , Windows 2000 , Windows XP , XML , XSLT , C++ , SBS , Sybase SQL , Perl , Intershop 4 Database Administration , Diagnostics of e-mail systems , WAP systems , SMS gateways |
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May 2004 -
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British Computer Society New Qualification Changes in the BCS (British Computer Society) and practical experience allowed me to become a MBCS (Member of the British Computer Society)
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27 August 2002 -
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BrightFusion Ltd
(Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Programming/Internet Services After returning back to University for the finial year of my degree, Brightfusion Ltd was setup to enable me to do freelance programming work.
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June 2001 -
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Seven.Net (domain since sold), Cheltenhamspa.Net
(Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Hosting Services Agreed with Garden-Technology to takeover hosting services. Hosting services provide income while at last year of University course.
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21 June 2000 -
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Garden-Technology Ltd
(Staverton, Gloucestershire) Web Developer + Administrator (University placement)
Garden-Technology Ltd services included a garden centre card loyalty system, website hosting and design
, gardening portal www.gardenworld.co.uk and the online retail site www.gardening-online.co.uk (since closed).
The role included maintaining the computer systems (hardware, software, NT servers, IIS, SBS, network, lease-line, firewalls).
Developing ASPs (Visual Basic/SQL) for the retail website/Intranet and writing bespoke Visual Basic applications.
Note: the company has since scale down actives.
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December 1999 -
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Publication in "Engineering Technology" I wrote a four page article for the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) magazine on gyroscopic propulsion systems.
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September 1998 -
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PCW (Nov 98), What PC (Nov 98 issue) & PC Plus (May 99 issue & Jan 2000) Publication (On the cover CD) of a program written in Visual Basic 4 Professional
A birthday reminder program that I wrote for a college assignment was refined,
improved and then submitted to a number of well-respected computer magazines.
The magazines thought that it was good enough to include on the cover CD.
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20 July 1998 -
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Kraft Jacobs Suchard
(Bayshill Road, Cheltenham) Summer job in the information systems department
Using the recently introduced SAP R/3 system, I helped to add the authorisations for
Irish plants to give them access to the new system. I also developed a number of
VBA programs to produce audit reports on user authorisations from extracted SAP data.
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February 1998 -
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Paragon Laundry
(Hatherley, Cheltenham) Sunday job - Just to earn a little money while completing my degree course. |
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June 1997 -
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Personal Computer World Magazine Request in the magazine for people to work part-time writing 'long term tests'
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April 1997 -
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The Furniture Recycling Project
(Gloucester, Gloucestershire) College Work Experience Placement (BTEC Course)
Working in a team to provide a Visual Basic 'custom made' contacts database, with mail merge facilities.
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9 June 1996 -
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The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
(Gloucester, Gloucestershire) College Work Experience Placement (BTEC Course)
A team web page production for the trust's first website in HTML 3 (not the current website), providing information
on the trust and its nature reserves.
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27 June 1994 -
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Evesham Micros
(Evesham, Worcestershire) School Work Experience Placement In Technical Support
Duties included: Building and testing Vale PCs, bulk formatting
floppy disks, testing latest Intel processors and I/O cards,
installation of hard disk drives into portable computers.
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1998 - 2002 |
University of Gloucestershire
(Park Campus, Cheltenham) Computing with Business Computer Systems Honours Degree (Major/Minor)
The final year dissertation on e-mail validation and verification
won the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) prize.
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1995 - 1997 |
Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology
(Gloucester, Gloucestershire) BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies
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1990 - 1995 |
Chosen Hill School
(Churchdown, Gloucestershire) 6 GCSEs grade C or above |
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| Maintaining my own websites (http://www.gyroscope.com, http://www.gyroscopes.org), computer programming for fun!, playing computer games, constructing and using radio controlled models, playing chess, keeping my two cats (Zip and Mork) happy. |