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I'm a final year undergraduate student at Aberystwyth University studying for a B.Sc. (Hons) Internet Computing with an industrial year and I am interested in PHP and front-end web development. I have some experience in using agile software development methodologies, PHP and Java programming, client-side web development, database design and development and some experience working with Linux systems administration and UNIX-like operating systems such as Fedora/CentOS and Mac OS X.

 

Education

Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, Wales
BSc (Hons) Internet Computing (September 2008 – May 2012)

Gorseinon College (now ”Gower College Swansea”), Swansea, Wales (September 2006 – June 2008)

  • GCE A Level Computing (Grade B)
  • GCE A Level Welsh (Second Language) (Grade B)
  • GCE A Level Art & Design Photography (Grade B)
  • GCE AS Level History (Grade B)

Industry Experience

Web Assistant at Aberystwyth University: July 2010 - August 2011

  • Responsibilities:

    • PHP Web application development

    • CMS support to non-technical staff

    • Apache Redirect & Alias management

  • Interaction: Worked with a range of academic and non-academic departments to deliver new and ehance existing web applications and provide support to non-technical staff in maintaining websites through SiteManager v6.2 - 7.0 CMS.
  • Focus: Improve the University website and develop & maintain web applications.

Awards

Aberystwyth University

  • Evan Morgan Scholarship, 2008 - 2012

Royal Photographic Society

  • Licentiateship pending approval

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

  • Bronze Level Award, 2006

Programming & Software Skills

Computer Programming:

  • Java, PHP
  • (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • UNIX shell scripting (BASH)
  • Trasferable knowledge of Object Orientated Programming to other langauges

Version Control Systems:

  • Git
  • SVN

Information/Internet Technology:

  • Programming (PHP, XML, XSLT, JSON)
  • Services (Apache, SQL, Sendmail, Postfix, SSH, SFTP, SCP)
  • Systems Administration Tools (Cron, Regular Expressions, daemon, user & process management)
  • RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)

Web Services:

  • REST
  • APIs

Operating Systems:

  • Microsoft Windows OS family
  • Apple Mac OS X
  • UNIX-like (Open Solaris, Debian & RPM based GNU Linux distributions)
  • Transferable knowledge to other UNIX-like OS variants

Creative & People Skills

Photography & Image Processing

  • Event, Wedding & Landscape Photographer
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite
  • GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)

Interpersonal Skills

  • Aberystwyth Photography Society committee member for 3 years
  • Computer Science Staff-Student Consultative Committe (SSCC) member 2011

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