SUMMARY:

Family bereavement cut short Bachelor of Computer Science Studies. Forced into taking a 13 year break to look after my grandmother who would develop vascular dementia. With that now in the rearview I am looking for route into industry I studied and have a fondness for.

Qualifications:

HND Electronic Engineering @ Aberdeen College

3.5yr BSC Computer Science @ RGU Aberdeen

Operating Systems

• Ubuntu Linux
• Debian Linux
• Linux Mint
• Cent OS
• Fedora Core
• OpenBSD
• Sun Solaris
• Open Suse
• open BSD
• Gentoo Linux
• MAC OSX
• Windows 9x

Coding & Programming Languages

• J2EE
• JAVA
• JSP
• HTML
• CSS
• JAVASCRIPT
• PHP
• Python
• C++
• C#

Server Side

• Apache HTTPD
• Apache Netbeans
• Apache Tomcat
• oracle J2EE
• SMBD
• Samba
• Samba ADI DC
• proFTPD
• MySQL
• MDADM
• Oracle
• MMC

Desktop Apps

• Thunderbird
• libreOffice
• Mixxx
• ICDJ
• LMMS
• Audacity
• GIMP
• Virtualbox
• virt-mgr
• Wine
• windirstat
• VLC
• Audacity
• shutter
• snipping Tool
• RDP
• TigerVNC
• pulseAudio
• Compiz
• gnome 2
• gnome 3
• mate-desktop
• cinemon-desktop
• KDE-desktop
• synaptic package manager
• SNAP
• Norton Ghost
• Drive Rescue (no longer active)
• bitdefender Pre Subscription
• CLAMAV
• Microsoft Defender
• Malwarebytes
• Hijackthis, sadly no longer being updated

Hardware Experience

• Dvorak keyboard
• single and Dual KVM
• Swann, Hilook, Hikvision CCTV Systems
• VGA Splitter
• Network routers/Switches
• HP LASERJETS
• Software Raid Cards

Employment history

2023-present: The Chef Aberdeen same employer as Nosheen Tandoori Ellon

• Helped setup new business
• Made sure business is cooksafe HACCP compliant

2012-2023: takeaway delivery driver for Nosheen Tandoori, Ellon.

Whilst there I have been driver/ cleaner/ sous chef, DJ, barback and barman for the weekend run nightclub.

whilst here I adopted Geographical information systems (GIS mapping) to become a better delivery driver. the mobile version can be found here

Bought and installed a usb to 3.5mm jack adapter to keep restaurant laptop usable.

Supplied 100* surgical facemasks plus some n95/kn95 masks to help keep restaurant open during covid-19.

2008 – 2020:
live in carer for grandmother who has vascular dementia.

2006-2007:
1 yr work experience @ Macaulay Land Use Research institute as a J2EE developer building two intranet systems whilst in an IT Support setting

1998-2008
paperboy then a sales assistant @ Forbouys. I was trusted to open/close stores throughout the aberdeen/shire areas.

Examples using my expertise at work

Upgraded restaurant laptop from windows 7.0 to windows 10 whilst free upgrade was available using the ISO image created.

When 3.5mm jack was starting to fail on restaurant laptop installed a USB to 3.5mm jack adaptor, saving the boss money repairing laptop

side Projects

I webmastered and postmastered www.javavault.org until 2007.

I own and host skdj.co.uk using apache HTTPD and Tomcat.

before building the COSHH Project for macaulay land Research institute in Aberdeen (Caution of Substances hazardeous to Health) which I didn't really understand its purpose I used my HTML Javascript and CSS knowledge to build a letter Writing template app. I'm currently working to recreated this app which can be found letters template as I haven't been able to find original code.

To Explain what would happen, page would load with positioned DIV ELEMENTS for letter Body from and to Addresses, recipient and from names.

onclick they would transform into either inputfield or textArea depending on whether data field was multiline or singleline.

once focus was lost element would transform back into DIV Elements

Back in 2008 I setup a NAS with software raids card using mdadm and 5*1TB HDDs. It ran proftpd a FTP server, and samba providing nfs, cifs and smb. If i was building a similar system today I would add active directory domain controller capabilities using samba4 and samba-tools as outlined here: https://www.tecmint.com/install-samba4-active-directory-ubuntu/

Transferrable Skills

Thunderbird to Outlook

LibreOffice to 0365