Curriculum Vitae

• Telephone 0191 209 1646
• Mobile 07749 954789
• Email jason [at] hybd [dot] net
• Date of Birth 5th April 1985

An artistic and technically minded student, with a broad skill set and solid experience as a web developer looking for new challenging career in computer games development. I am a creative thinker who is able to learn new skills quickly and efficiently.

Skills

General

• Solid understanding of OO & UML concepts
• In depth understanding of computer hardware & repairs
• Good understanding of Subversion (Tortoise front end & Command Line)

Graphics & Games Specific

• Java & C++ Programming skills (2 years)
• Adobe Photoshop (2 years)
• Experience with Caligari TrueSpace (9 months)

Web Specific

• PHP – 3 years, v4.x-5.x
• Ruby / Rails, Almost 3 years
• XHTML 1.1 / CSS 2, 5 years
• JavaScript, mainly experienced with Prototype library.
• General SQL, 4 years
  • MySQL – versions 3.x-5.x
  • PostgreSQL – v8.x
  • SQLite – v3.x
• Linux – 5 years (Mainly Redhat & Ubuntu)
  • Web server knowledge covering:
    • Apache
    • Lighttpd
    • NginX
    • Mongrel

Employment History

SonicIQ – June 2004 to September 2005 – Full Time

Mainly developed client websites using sever and client side scripting technologies
Migrated development process to use subversion.

Heavily influenced company wide decision to migrate from ASP/PHP towards Ruby & Linux

Shared responsibility for new architecture and coded implementation for Martin & Co, our largest client. The website had to support statistical reporting tools and administration for over 110 offices / franchisee’s at the time of development.

Responsibilities generally included:

• PHP and Ruby programming
• Linux administration

Bournemouth School – Spring 2004 – Freelance

Consulted by school art department to budget, build and configure ten new bespoke state of the art machines for video editing and 3D modelling.

Dorset Adult Education – Summer 2004 – 2 week contract

Assisted with the county-wide deployment of 100+ Windows XP computers. Main tasks included hardware fault finding, OS & software installation, and Norton Ghost disk imaging.

Dorset Enterprise & Skills – Summer 2003 – Freelance

Hired by Dorset Enterprise & Skills to help deploy a small Windows based office network & website.

Education

Northumbria University – 2006 – Present

Currently in the 2nd year of studying ‘Computer Games Software Engineering’.

Newcastle University – 2005 – 2006

• Studied software engineering for one year.
• 73% end of year average grade.
• Switched to Northumbria CGSE course due to re-evaluation of personal goals

Bournemouth School – 1998 to 2003

A Level Grades

• Art – A
• Electronics – B
• Maths – D

GCSE Grades

• Art – A
• Business Studies – A
• Double Award Science – AA
• English Language – C
• English Literature – B
• French – C
• Geography – C
• Technology – B
• Religious Studies Short Course – B