My CV Personal Details Name: Allan Craig Clements Date of birth: 1979.09.07 Telephone: Available on request E-mail address: aclements@exploding-planet.com Career Objective As far as my career goes I would ideally like to get into website design and development. Profile I am hard working and am constantly seeking to expand my abilities. I can work effectively both on my own and as part of a team. I can think logically and can adapt my ideas to the situation at hand. I can program in many languages, including C++ and PHP. I have produced many web sites, both on my own and as part of a team including a complex web based strategy game using PHP, JavaScript, HTML and MySQL. Education / Qualifications September 1999 - June 2002 BSc (Hons) Computer Science Graduate at University of Bath I have studied technical subjects such as Programming (C, C++, Scheme, Low-level / Assembler), Computer Architecture and Principles Of Computer Operation, mathematical subjects such as logic and set theory and business studies subjects including Information Management and Financial Accounting. My final year project was a simple 2d game but with the focus being on HCI (Human Computer Interaction) such as a good user interface. April 1994 - June 1998 Prince Henrys High School, Worcs A-Levels (Summer 1998) Mathematics B Further Maths C Business Studies B Computer Science A Mathematics B Further Maths C GCSEs (Summer 1996) Mathematics A Science (Dual Award) AA Geography C English C Design and Technology D English Literature B IT Experience Opera Software (August 2004 - Now) Position: QA Developer Working as part of the QA Systems and Processes team developing systems for internal testing. Bath University Network Computing Society (September 1999 - June 2004) Position: Web Master/Committee/Founding member Helped to start the society in 1999, and my responsibilities as a committee member involved helping to set up and run networks at society LAN meetings, troubleshooting hardware, software and configuration problems on other members' computers and writing articles and helping maintain the society's web page (http://www.bath.ac.uk/~su8buncs/). VoidWars (2002-2004) I have experience developing and running an online strategy game with two other friends, for up to 100 players at a time. I have participated in the design, development and testing of the software written in PHP, JavaScript, HTML and MySQL. It is a space based strategy game; the aim of the game is to control the largest portion of the map once the game ends. The only requirements are a web browser and JavaScript enabled. I not only had to deal with typical software bugs but also with more gaming orientated bugs such as balance issues and deal with user complaints (http://www.voidwars.com/). MPC Data (September 2000 - September 2001) Position: Student Engineer As part of my Computer Science degree at the University of Bath, I spent a year working in industry for a small system software company based in Bradford-on-Avon. My role included updating existing software, mostly in C/C++, designing and implementing new software, and also writing testing documentation and implementing the test plans. Exploding-Planet.com The website you are viewing now, is entirely developed by myself, using PHP and MySQL, it includes weblogging system, and an Anime database system including episode, actor, character and series details all generated from MySQL using PHP. This website is also standards compliant, and is capable of outputing as HTML and XHTML, depending on whether the browser being used supports it (e.g. sends XHTML to Mozilla and HTML to IE) Other Experience Worcs County Council, Social Services Department, Evesham (September 2003 - December 2003) Position: Data Entry / Admin Clerk The website you are viewing now, is entirely developed by myself, using PHP and MySQL, it includes weblogging system, and an Anime database system including episode, actor, character and series details all generated from MySQL using PHP. This website is also standards compliant, and is capable of outputing as HTML and XHTML, depending on whether the browser being used supports it (e.g. sends XHTML to Mozilla and HTML to IE) Programming Skills PHP (4 years) Standards CompliantHTML 4 / XHTML 1.1 (4 years) XML (2 year) SQL (4 years, Mostly MySQL) JavaScript (3 years) CSS (3 years) Visual Basic (2 years) C/C++ (1 year) DirectX using C++ (6 months) OpenGL using C++ (1 year) Operating Systems UNIX / Linux / X-Windows MS-DOS Windows 3.x/9x/NT/2k/XP Applications Apache Web Server Microsoft Visual Studio MySQL Paint Shop Pro 7 Microsoft Office 2000 Photoshop Macromedia Flash Interests Web design is my main interest, and is why I am involved in making a web based game. I have thoroughly enjoyed programming and designing the game and it certainly is an interesting experience dealing with user feedback. Much of my time during 2003 was spent developing and maintaining Voidwars and improving my PHP and MySQL skills. I often help with hardware and software problems of friends and family, such as installing new hardware or reinstalling their system. I have also built my own computer from components several times since I prefer it to be customised to my needs. Outside of computers I'm a keen reader of mostly fantasy books, such as books by David Eddings and Ian Irvine.