Recent Full Time Employment
DirekTek Ltd - Within DirekTek I am employed full time as a software engineer in C#, since starting a position here I have assumed responsibility over development and maintenance of internal order processing systems and automation along with the development
of integrations with retailers, with a heavy focus on integration the work at DirekTek is always expanding to meet retailers demands meaning our systems are constantly expanding and evolving over time. This has lead to me having to work with newly hired and junior developers to run them through the current system along with both training them on coding practices but also training on the languages used within the company.
The main technologies used at DirekTek are C#, .Net Core, JavaScript, Html, CSS, AutoFac, MSSQL, MySQL.
Southern Swords Ltd - Within Southern Swords I was employed as a front end developer, the company is a small but rapidly expanding specialist retailer focusing on Historical Re-Enactment. My work here was mostly development and maintenance of their 5 websites.
With these sites being based on Magento there was a heavy amount of PHP, Html, CSS and JavaScript work involved in both creating new functionality on the sites along with extending 3rd party modules and fixing compatability issues encountered.
Education History
Open University - Computer Science
Having decided to finish a degree (mostly for CV reasons) I am currently working on a part time course at the Open Uni, with a current grade average of approx 85% my predicted graduation grade is a 1st class honours degree.
On the course we are working with a mixture of Java, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript as the main languages.
Teesside University - Games programming
I Attended Teesside Univeristy originally on a Games Programming course, this was a high intensity course where I quickly realised that much of the work I was doing in my first year, was that of which other friends were doing in thei final year.
On the course we covered C++ as the main language and also delved into C#, Java and some LISP, we were exposed to development in OpenGL and DirectX and had a pretty heavy workload. Unfortunately I had to leave the course toward the end of the second year due to personal reasons,
I was set to return a year later however by that time I had secured a job as a full time developer and so passed on the opportunity. While attending in my two years at Teesside my average grade was pushing approx 75% and predicted grade was a 1st class honours.
Amersham & Wycombe College - Software Engineering BND
Prior to attending university I did a specialised BTEC in software engineering, the course worked mainly in VB.Net and during my time here I took to helping many of other students as I excelled at the work, I ended up graduating with a triple distriction grade.