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Aberystwyth University - Department of Information Studies

As part of my degree I have completed an industrial year working for the Department of Information Studies as a Database Developer. During the year I mainly worked with MS-SQL server backend and an MS Access frontend. My task for the year was to convert a large section of the "Buisness Logic" in the frontend to stored procedures in the backend.

I also did a large amount of work with the Moodle open source VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). This included re-writing the mail module to be more suitable for 1000s of users. I also did a large amount of intergration work between the two systems (database and moodle), to enable automatic enrolment of students, etc. For more details see my CV or e-mail me for a copy of my industrial year report.

Coreware LTD:

I started working at Coreware part time during my lower sixth year, my responsibilities at that time mainly involved hardware work. I maintained our office desktop as well as our server bank.
This involved problem diagnosis, upgrade, OS installation, YUM development, etc.

My current responsibilites are in more of a research and development area as well as software development, I have written several modules which are in active use.

My latest research projects have been:

Infrared remote control of Stereo using AJAX and PERL
SMS plugin for Nagios monitoring system
Virtulization of Fedora core linux

My latest Software development projects have been:

Reuters F1 mobile templates - WML and XHTML
Reuters football UK - Site re-launch
Video component for Coreware CMS system

Coreware continue to sponsor me though university, for more information regarding any of my projects see my CV at the top of the page or e-mail me.

Glebelands School:

I have worked for Glebelands school during my university vacation as a IT technican.
This involved a real diverse mix of tasks everything from first line support for staff and students laptop and computers, to developing bespoke software solutions. I have done a fair amount of network administration work for Glebelands including most recently a remote "push out" of a software upgrade to all staff laptops.

The software I have written for Glebelands is to assist with network administration functions. These are as follows:

Laptop Control Console - This uses a combination of Fastpush, UltraVNC and a custom written PHP front end to aid the completion of simple administrative functions remotely without technicans having to trek across the site!
SIMS Auto Installer - This Visual Basic program is installed on staff laptops and together with AUTO-IT which updates their machines with the latest version of SIMS (Schools Infrastructure Management System) when it is made avaliable via the server.
MSI Deployer - This is a custom script for PSEXEC which deploys any MSI file silently to a list of target computers

I have also made MSI installer files for the RM CC3 network during my time at Glebelands. I continue to work for Glebelands during the school holidays.

Aberystwyth University - Department of Computer Science

During Semester 1 of 2006. I worked for AU as a demonstrator for the module CS10110 (Introduction to Computer Science). This involved helping first year students with their practical work on the UNIX command line.

I work for AU in an ongoing capacity as tour guide for the Department of Computer Science on open days.