I have enjoyed many opportunities to innovate with graphics and image manipulation. These range from a highly original solution for image composition on the web, to mathematically advanced VBA solutions for the manufacture of bespoke products.

June 2004 to August 2006 - Self employed, various contracts

As a self-employed web-developer I provided consultation, coding and implementation for new websites, as well as competitively priced overhauls of existing websites.

Summer 2002 - John Reilly Civil Engineering Ltd, Eastleigh

My main responsibility was the creation of the company website, from consultation and design to uploading the final product. I was also responsible for IT assistance to about 20 employees. In addition, I spent time on-site as an engineer's assistant, learning hands-on experience of his work; I applied this experience by programming his graphical calculator to automate a great deal of on-site calculation.

May 1997 - IBM, Hursley

This experience, in third level technical support, was extremely valuable since it introduced me to a team environment and emphasised the importance of learning to be versatile and to use many different tools. I subsequently used these new skills during my placement in order to help with the debugging of voice recognition software.

Education and Qualifications

2002-2004 University of Southampton
MMath mathematics degree

2000-2002 University of Bath
MPhys physics degree: changed course and university for personal reasons

1998-2000 Barton Peveril College
4 A-levels: Mathematics (B), Further Mathematics (C), Physics (B), Chemistry (B)

1993-1998 Swanmore Secondary School
11 GCSEs including A grades in: Mathematics (A*), English Literature (A*), Double Science (AA), Statistics (A)

Additional Information

At school I obtained gold awards four years running in the UK Maths Challenge. The third and fourth times, I was also invited to take part in the British Mathematical Olympiad.

Experienced with most popular operating systems, including Windows, MacOS and UNIX.
Some experience in Apache installation and administration, as required to enable various web-based projects.
I am a proficient user of AutoCAD.
I am an experienced user of: Various graphics packages including Adobe Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator, The GIMP and Corel Draw/Photopaint; OpenOffice.org and the Microsoft Office suite; various video and sound transcoding/editing/playback applications including Gordian Knot, VLC VideoLAN server, Goldwave and the K-Lite mega-codec pack.

I enjoy amateur astronomy, playing music (Grade 6 piano; self-taught guitar and drumming), and programming games. I have had programming as a hobby first and take a short time to become productive in any new language.