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A creative, qualified mathematician with strong problem solving abilities who has developed a wide range of web development skills via post-university employment. Now looking for a new challenge that blends creativity with technology and has opportunities to develop user facing and project leadership skills.

Employment History

University of Bath: Web Systems Developer (2005 to present)

• Developed university contact system (‘Person Finder’) for finding information on the 20000 university members
  • Gathered requirements from stakeholders
  • Implemented system (using PHP, javascript, html, css, LDAP querying)
  • Wrote user documentation and provided post rollout support
• Developed other web services using various languages and web technologies including
  • java, ruby, xslt, coldfusion
  • RSS, atom, REST, SOAP, microformats
• Development with internal system such as LDAP, Oracle calendar
• System administration using apache, tomcat, openfire, confluence, solaris
• Developed internal team procedures
  • Proactive investigation into alternative approaches to software developmen
  • Analysed and simplified processes for maintaining internal systems

University of Bath Computing Services: IT Support (2004 - 05)

• Helpdesk problem solving
• Responsible for maintenance of public access computers
• Developed procedures for working with large numbers of students during freshers’ week
• Developed communication between helpdesk and system administration teams

Unilever UK (summer 2002, summer 2003, vacation work)

• Project team member of remote factory computer systems overhaul
• Data analysis

Work Experience

• Blue Logic (JWT London, 2001)
• Bestfoods UK (IT department, Esher, 2000)

University Radio Bath (URB) Experience

Roles

• Chief Engineer (2004 - 05)
• Systems Administrator (2004 to present)
• Head of Advertising (2003 – 04)
• Regular Presenter (2001 - 2005)

Specific Achievements

• Co-presented weekly radio show for 4 years (nominated for National Student Radio Award)
• Writer on National Student Radio Award winning show 'Because Fish Are Funny' (2003)
• Designed and implemented an internal computer network to encompass playout, logging, storage, backup
• Linux servers (DHCP, DNS, apache, samba, nfs, icecast)
• Windows desktops for users
• Software development (internal systems in perl, remote streaming machines)
• Co-author of academic paper on logging audio (published in 2005 - 'Recording all Output from a Student Radio Station' John ffitch and Tom Natt)

Education

• University of Bath (2001 - 04)
  • BSc Mathematical Sciences, 2.1
• Reigate Grammar School (1999 - 2001):
  • A Levels: Maths (A), Further Maths (A), Physics (A), General Studies (A), Chemistry (B)
• Leicester Grammar School (1994 - 99)
  • GCSE: 7 at grade A* (incl Maths, English), 4 at grade A

Also

• Introduction to Team Leadership management course (2007)
• Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award (2001)
• Expert user of Windows and associated applications (Office, etc)
• Proficient with GIMP

Other Interests

• Learning spoken Chinese (Mandarin)
• Applied to join Special Constabulary
• Music
• Cinema
• Badminton / Swimming / Walking / Martial Arts
• Open source programming

CV last updated 8th March 2008