After attending Gourock High School for 6 years, I then worked in Uganda for 1 year setting up and running an internet café, and teaching brief introductory courses in computing. I studied computer science (Bachelor of Science) at Glasgow University, and obtained my degree there in 2010, while working in IT at Kip Marina.

• Experience in maintaining a number of local home and networked machines for individuals and businesses and currently do so on an ongoing basis.
• Interest in web-site development, having designed many web sites in the past.
• Competent in a wide range of authoring software packages including Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc.
• Knowledge of ASP.NET, PHP, Javascript, Java, HTML 5, MySQL, Flash, DBMS's and CMS.
• Experience in maintaining server-based operating systems.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Friendly, enthusiastic and highly committed.

Education:

January 2009 - present
Kip Marina:
During my time at Kip Marina, I arranged the start-up of an online ecommerce website selling marine clothing and general chandlery items to customers. Working in partnership with a design company in Glasgow we organized a marketing campaign and continue to maintain this online store at present. I also provided a wide range of IT services, looking after their in-house servers and marina management software systems.

July 2006 – January 2009
Devol Engineering:
I began working in Devol with a team developing various projects to streamline existing processes, from planning stages through to implementation. Latterly, I ran and maintained some of these systems, and worked with the IT administrator to provide general IT support for colleagues.

September 2004 – August 2005
MicroCare (UG) Insurance, Systems administrator & computing teacher

2002 – Present
Richard Robb Architects, Systems administrator / IT support

I am very interested in sports such as sailing, mountain biking, bike trials. I enjoy camping & travelling on a regular basis, and take part in many yacht racing regattas and musters around the west coast of Scotland.