Languages:	C++, C, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, SQL
Platforms:	Linux, Windows 2000, NT4, 98
Packages:	Adobe Photoshop, Apache, Corel Draw, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, MS IIS, MS SQL Server

2001-	Part-time Freelance Work Various small jobs to help cover costs while studying in talmudic college in Jerusalem. Most notable work was the creation of the London JLE website. www.jle.org.uk Complete implementation included everything from all graphical work and design, to full PHP and mySQL backend. The site was designed so that it was as automated as possible and could be kept up to date by non-technical staff at the JLE through using a passworded online user interface. Also amused myself by designing posters for engagement parties.
1998 - Aug 2000	h2g2 - Software Engineer & Web Developer Occupied senior technical position at sci-fi author Douglas Adams' company, h2g2 Ltd (formally The Digital Village) Designed and implemented an XML content production system in Perl as the backend to the company website and DouglasAdams.com. Worked in a small highly competent team of developers to produce the official HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy website - h2g2.com, an online collaborative guide and community site. Other responsibilities included maintaining and setting up the Linux servers.
1996-1998	Bluefish Graphics - Self Employed Graphic & Web Designer Worked on a wide variety of commissions involving complete design and layout from conception to finished print. Despite having no formal training, I gained substantial graphic design and lithographic print experience. Several large educational organisations regularly employed me to produce all their major publicity material including posters, brochures, membership packs and web sites. Other work included business cards, magazines, logo design and even the cover art for a internationally distributed book.
July-Oct 1994	Leeds University Driving Simulator Employed to add audio to Driving Simulator. Simulator was an adapted Rover 216 GTi in front of a projector screen. Graphics were generated from a high-end Silicon Graphics platform and sound was generated by a Roland MIDI sampler. Job involved complete installation of audio for simulator including programming object-oriented API into the system as well as finding, recording and sampling sounds. Followed on from final year project to restructure the underlying road map data structure to an object-oriented paradigm and giving the virtual cars more realistic behaviour.
July-Sept 1993	Worked on project funded by the Central European Council. Designed and coded a system for aiding decision making as part of European wide project to planning a response to a nuclear accident. Written in C++ with Motif/X11.
1989-1992	Private (part-time): Wrote and distributed my own programs for Sinclair Spectrum and Disciple/Plus D disk interface. The programs were a disk-to-tape transfer utility, snapshot compressor DOS patch and a file copier with a user-friendly front end.The programs received highly favourable reviews in FORMAT magazine and COMPUTER SHOPPER.
1989	NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY: Work Experience programme. General office work including computer input, filing, telephone.

1994 - 1997	City University, London PhD student researching automatic analysis of images of rodent brain MRI scans. Delivered paper at international conference in Singapore (December 1996).
1991 - 1994	University of Leeds 2.1 BSc(Hons) degree in Computer Science with Software Engineering. Subjects studied included object-oriented programming, neural networks, computer vision, databases, computer graphics, functional programming, data structures and used a variety of languages including C, C++, Pascal, prolog, ML & SQL. Daily use of Silicon Graphic UNIX Workstations. Wrote graphics project written on Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo. Came top in year and project is still being used on a regular basis as demonstration software by the Computer Science department. Received grade of 96% for group project which I lead. Project required to write and document a student database using Object-Oriented techniques with C++. My group also added a graphical user interface written in GL.
1985 - 1991	Westcliff High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. 1988 GCSE: Maths. 1989 GCSE: Art, Geography, Chemistry, Physics, English language, English literature, French, Russian. OA: Additional Maths. 1990 A-level: Maths Grade A 1991 A-level: Further Maths Grade C Physics Grade B

• Graphic Design
• Electric Guitar
• Programming
• Theology
• Being slapped with fish in front of three hundred strangers