I am a considerate, motivated and imaginative individual with over five years of industrial IT experience after having achieved First Class Honours at University. I have demonstrated to be adaptive, hard working and able to work in a team environment as well as alone using my own initiative.

I have a flexible range of computer programming and creative skills. I have excellent knowledge of most major software packages and find it easy to adapt to new software environments.

My communication skills have been developed through project leader roles adopted in, employment, freelancing, University activities and volunteering experiences. I have an eye for detail and enjoy the prospect of a challenge. I am keen to learn new skills and do so through a variety of ongoing hobbies and interests.

Sheffield Hallam University, 2002 to 2006

BSc (Hons) Computing (Visualisation): First Class with Honours

Games Programming

99%

Visualisation and Virtual Reality

82%

Intelligent Systems

78%

Visualisation Case Studies

74%

Advanced Graphics and Animation

76%

Derby College : Pride Parkway, 2000 to 2002

B-Tec National Diploma in Computing: Overall Grade: Distinction
This is equivalent to 3 A's at A-level standard
A Level: AS Music Technology, B

› National Computer Game Competition - Gold Award Certificate
› Hallam Award (for volunteering in Team Leader roles)
› TEFL Diploma (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
› TEFL Chinese Culture Awareness Certificate
› Music (Grade 3+)

Self-Employed, November 2007 to Present
Past client requirments have included Flash animation, websites, web-applications, desktop application and research writing. Being self-employed has allowed me to handle clients and manage projects at first hand. This has involved a wide range of interpersonal and technical skills and I've found the work to be a both challenging and enjoyable. Please see my portfolio section for samples of my work.

Dig For Fire, August 2007 to November 2007 Freelance
Working to tight deadlines on a full variety of projects such as promotional games and internet advertisements. Using Flash and Photoshop to develop game-play and graphics.

Roscom Ltd. February 2007 to August 2007 Freelance
A global company specialising in telecommunications quality of service and revenue assurance with clients such as O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, etc. Developed critical billing verification systems using C++, PHP, VB, MySQL and Unix as part of a team.

Scapa UK Ltd. July 2004 to July 2005
Developing Web-based Applications for their European-wide intranet; using ASP.NET, MS SQL 2000 and Visual Studio.NET Supporting local and European IT users, face-to-face and on the phone. Maintaining and administrating various business critical IT systems.

Ex-D Software Development, 1999 to 2006 Part-time
Self developed e-business company; developed and marketed home-grown software. This involved using Visual Basic 6, Borland C++, Visual C++ 6, QBasic, ASP, DarkBasic, HTML and JavaScript. One product inparticular was reviewed by some IT magazines; MouseWrap is still an ongoing project and can be downloaded from QDwares.com.

Datapath, July 1999
Software and hardware house, produces real-time visualisation systems, graphics cards and monitors. I was involved with product research, user manual maintenance and hardware testing.

Spectrum Components, early 1997 to 1999; sales assistance & computer construction.

Though-out University life I participated in numerous extra-curricular activities. For example I was a team leader in a volunteering project that involved teaching college students how to make short three-dimensional computer animations. I have always been inspired by music, and during University I also learnt to play the piano.

In my final year of University I started to learn a second language via a scheme set up by the University; through this scheme I met a range of people from around the world. I helped them to learn English in return for their teaching of Chinese; this is one example of how I have strived to improve my communication skills and cultural understandings. Also, it should be noted that taking part in additional outside activities within my final year of study required excellent forward planning and organisational skills.

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