Details
Full Name: Shimon Marc Joseph YOUNG
Date of Birth:23/12/72
Status: Married
Address: London.
Email:shim@soi.city.ac.uk
URL:http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/homes/shim

Skills Summary
Languages:C++, C, JavaScript, Java, UNIX shell script, Pascal, SQL, prolog, ML.
Platforms:UNIX (IRIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux) Windows 95, Windows 3.11, MS-DOS
Graphics:X11, Motif, GL.
Subjects:Programming
Computer Vision
World Wide Web (HTML, CGI, graphics manipulation, design)

Work Experience

1996-1997

Freelance Web author/designer
JJ Hucke Guitars    http://www.jjhucke.com
Designed website for manufacturer of exclusive handbuilt electric guitars.
Designed advert in a top guitar magazine.
SmartData Solutions   http://www.smartdata.co.uk
Designed website for company specialising in object programming solutions on Web/Internet/Intranet.
City University
Web consultant for City University Computer Science and Journalism departments. Offered work on ITN election web site.

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.

Education

1994 -
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.
1988GCSE:Maths.
1989GCSE: Art, Geography,
Chemistry, Physics,
English language,
English literature,
French, Russian.
OA:Additional Maths.
1990A-level:MathsGrade A
1991A-level:Further MathsGrade C
PhysicsGrade B

Interests