Education

Institutional Education

My degree was based at Bangor University in North Wales, taken between 1996 and 1999. My A Levels were taken at The Chase, in Malvern. This section outlines some of the key aspects of my education.

My degree was a single honours degree in Computer Systems With Business Studies. The degree was based wholly within the University Of Wales.

Taken from the balcony at Bangor University in North Wales. Bangor City itself, mostly resides in the valley below. Looking Easterly in the distance is Llandudno. Great views!

This part of the course included the development of software development skills (C, Java, VB, 68000 assembly, Occam), within the development cycle skills such as UML were taught. AI and Neural Networks were also prominent in the course.

A large element of mathematics was taken in the course (including Operational Research), to support the technical elements.

Hardware and computer architecture parts of the course covered everything from Data Networking to Processor Architecture.

Business Element:This part of the course provided an essential understanding of how modern business works and gave good crossover into the use of technical skills to produce saleable and innovative products.

Key elements included Accounting, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Economics, Business Process Reengineering, Business French, Quality Management.

Projects:

Software Hut (2nd Year, Team): Develop a software package that would fit on to a 16Kb 68000 MP. Using a board that could simulate the actions of a washing machine (LED's, Motors etc.) controlled by the 68000, the teams had to develop the software using all of the processes and methodologies learnt to date and then demonstrate the product to the supervisors. Finally the project and its development was presented to other course piers. Our team won best product.

Enterprise Project: (2nd Year, Team): With other people from different courses, teams had to invent a health related product, teams were given a small amount of money to create a mock small business. Deliverables included a product prototype, business plan, marketing materials and a final presentation to a board of judges and other department students. Our team won best presentation.

Dissertation: (3rd Year, Individual): My project involved taking aerial photographs of towns which had been digitised in to and AutoCad format (DXF) and firstly developing a tool that would allow the addition of items into that data so as to alleviate the need for new flyovers. The second element of the involved the design of a piece of software that could represent the 2D DXF data in Virtual Universe (Using Java3D). The work was primarily developed for DERA.

Professional Courses