I graduated from Sussex University in July 2001 with a BA (Hons)
in Artificial Intelligence. I hope to combine my skills and
interests in business, information technology and problem solving
to make a real contribution to the efficiency and profitability
of any future employer.
Development of notification solutions for the travel industry.
Porting a central component from VB6 to VB.NET including some key enhancements to dynamic content functionality.
Deliverability Consultancy - using a variety of content, software, white list and DNS methods to improve the rate of emails to reach the inbox.
Liasing with clients during the implementation and rollout of functionality.
WS Atkins Consultants Ltd. Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey
KT18 5BW. September 2003 - March 2005 Consultant (Analyst Programmer/Unix Analyst) April 2002 - September 2003 Graduate Consultant (Developer/Analyst Programmer) September 2001 - April 2002 Graduate Trainee Developer
Development of extranets and online collaborative systems.
Research into group awareness in collaborative virtual environments as part of the Atkins Research and Innovation department, including EU funded research.
Specifically responsible for developing a transport ordering B2B solution between a local County Council and Atkins.
Part of a team that developed central bespoke portals for the management of programmes of works for both Shell Oil and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
University of Sussex. Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1
9RD. October 2000 Lab Assistant (Technician Grade C)
Duties included helping new students familiarise themselves with the Unix
terminals and demonstrating the system to them.
WS Atkins Consultants Ltd. Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey
KT18 5BW. June - September 2000 Student Trainee (Developer) June - September 1999 Student Trainee (Developer) March - April 1999 Student Trainee (Service Support) July - September 1998 Student Trainee (Help Desk Agent / Service
Support)
Planning and responsibility for implementing and improving various projects involving an online collaborative system
Gave a sales presentation to client's project managers
Working in Service Support I compiling internal service operation manuals
Developed an Active Server Page (ASP) site for asset management in VBScript/SQL.
As Help Desk Agent and my duties included; first line support, configuring and installing new PCs, logging calls and updating the company e-mail alias table. Also involved in preparing templates for company standard correspondence such as faxes, memos and minutes.
Network Si Ltd.1 Demuth Way, Oldbury, West Midlands. On
site at Mitsubishi Finance International,
Broadgate, London. August 1995 Technical Support Duties included creating Microsoft Excel 5 spreadsheets with VBA code for data entry and asset management.
EDUCATION
2001 -Open
UniversityMilton Keynes Postgraduate Certificate in Computing
Taken so far: April 2004 M877 Advanced Database Technology - Passed July 2003 M878 Object-oriented Software Development - Passed July 2002 M873 Distributed
Applications and E-Commerce - Passed 1997 - 2001University of SussexFalmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH BA(Hons.) Artificial Intelligence - 2.1
An interdisciplinary course covering Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology courses. 3rd year project: "SCARGIL: Data Mining using the Genetic Methods" produced a system that took a dataset and after a period of induction using evolutionary computing output classification rules. The program was given a dataset of DNA to produce protein splice site predictions. 1995 - 1997Yorkshire Coast CollegeLady Edith's Drive, Scarborough, N.
Yorkshire City and Guilds Information Technology 7261/01 205 Visual
Basic 1 PASS
3 'A' Levels 1994 - 1995Lewes Tertiary CollegeMountfield Road, Lewes, East Sussex. BTEC National Level Module Physics MERIT 1989 - 1994Ringmer Community CollegeRingmer, East Sussex.
GCSEs 9 A-C including : Science - Double Award AA Mathematics A Information
Studies A English C English Literature C
Also won the School's Business Award for
Excellence in the leavers cemeramony of 1994. I was also
my year's representative on the Student Council between 1992 and
1994.
Professional Memberships
Member of the British Computer Society joined 2001 Member of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers joined
2001 Ordinary Member of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour joined 2004
SOFTWARE
I have had experience with the following software:
Operating Systems: BeOS 5 Personal Edition IBMOS/2
Warp3.0 Linux (Redhat 7.3/Suse/Mandrake 8.1) MicrosoftPocketPC2002 MicrosoftWindows3.11, 95,
98SE, ME MicrosoftWindows NT4.0
(Workstation/Server), 2000
(Professional/Server), XP
(Professional/Home) NovellNetWare3.12 SunSolaris2.6, 7, 8
(SPARC) SunSolaris7
(x86) yellowTABZeta1.x
Development Tools: BorlandC3.1 BorlandC++
Builder3.0 BorlandTurbo
Pascal6.0 Chami.comHTML-KitVersion 1.0 Build 290, Build 292 GNUgcc2.x (Solaris, Windows, Linux, BeOS and Zeta) MicrosoftApplication Center Test(Part of Visual Studio .NET 2003) MicrosofteMbedded Visual Basic3.0 MicrosoftVisual Basic Professional3.0, 6.0 MicrosoftVisual Studio .NET 2003, 2005 OrbWorksPocketC CE3.0 Perl5 Python1.5.2 SunJava1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.2 (Solaris &
Windows) University of SussexProlog3.2
Other: EnvirosBusiness Collaborator3.x and 4.x GMDBSCW4.x MicrosoftSQL Server2000, 2005 MySQL ABmySQL3.23.55, 4.0.11 Oracle8i PersoftSmarTerm Essential8.0 PHP3 Plone1.0.3(Linux), 1.0.5(Windows) WorkGroup SystemsQuetzal4.1
Academic Papers/Workshops
Contributions to two workpackages in a project partly funded through the EU IST programme
IST-10846 TOWER.
Attended Workspace Venezia 2003 Shaping the future workspace: essential tools for the future.
Chalk, N (2005) "Mining project information using storytelling" in Proceedings of the 23rd IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria. February 14-16, 2005.