During my studies, I have had a number of part-time jobs to gain experience and finance, Now however, I have entered full-time employment:

Web Designer
21st Century Internet provides solutions for any Internet development project, from the smallest to the largest. From classical elegance to multimedia high technology - offering the most advanced electronic designs, and always ensure that these complement your corporate image. I have carried out many tasks during my career with 21st century, such as Flash work, Photoshop work, Perl & Scripting, and a lot more.

Old Common,
Cross-In-Hand,
Heathfield,
TN21 0LT

Web: http://www.web21st.net

General Assistant
St. Dunstans is a registered charity for the blind injured in the services. I was employed within this company to help them catch up on some work, which had become overdue. Firstly this meant helping out within the central stores of the building which handles all the stocks and deliveries. This also included the construction of an entire new database system created in Microsoft’s Access. I then went on to further my work in the transport department, which needed a complete office restructure and system redesign. I had to produce several graphical documents during the employment within this company.

General Operations Assistant
For 4 years, I had part time employment with Marks and Spencer’s as a General Operations Assistant. This involves carrying out regular activities such as handling deliveries and sorting out the warehouse behind the scenes of the Shop floor. I am in charge of the correct temperature control with in the fridges, via an online monitor system. Also, tasks involve daily opening or closing of the store, training new members of staff, as well as present employees for the fire party. Being a key holder for the store, I am also responsible for locking and unlocking the store, and being called out for various reasons. Occasionally I help with the new till system, which is basically an enormous NT network.

Office Moves
For this part time work, I helped in the area of office moving, which involved re-organising plans and arrangements for a variety of offices and rooms. This meant also the regular occurrence of setting up P.C’s and other peripherals, as well as general office furniture.
A lot of the jobs we carried out were for Cable and Wireless Telecommunications LTD.

General Assistant
This was a textile rental company, which involves the collection, cleaning, and distribution garments throughout the UK. I participated during holidays and breaks from school, mostly contributing help with the computerisation of their bar-coding system. Occasionally I had to participate on the actually delivery of garments

I have now finished my HND in computing, after realising that Accountancy was not for me last year. Due to the success of this course to date, I have realised that this is the area I would like to progress into, especially as the participation of computers in our everyday lives is increasing daily. I am able to progress to the degree level after I have finished my HND, but I am uncertain which route to take as I would prefer a more ‘hands-on’ approach of training with an actual company.

For the second semester of this course, a group project has been decided to setup a server with two client machines, one ‘based’ on an intranet with the other being an external client on the WWW. For this project, we aim to create the server with two network cards, one supplying the intranet, one supplying the Internet as a web server. However, security will need to be high, therefore we need to allow the internal client access to the Internet, without the external client being able to see in.

I enjoy web design, (having several of my own), anything graphically related for example creating presentations, and also technical support and networking. Perl, however is a strong language that I enjoy, especially when used in conjunction with CGI and the Internet.

I have a large and substantial portfolio of work, which I have undergone, which can be provided on request.