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During my time at Foster Gearing I used a variety of design software, this included SketchUp, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Cinema 4D. The job involved a wide variety of projects; from designing interiors and exteriors of buildings with appropriate specifications and servicing plans, to creating exploded views of blood and drug temperature control packaging for transportation. I also designed a number of leaflets, banners, posters, cards and labels. Clients that we worked with during my employment included Past Times, Saga, WCR, The Creative Foundation and DGP. Other areas of the job included client and site meetings, large format printing, mounting, laminating and photography.

Whilst working for Anders Roberts and Associates Ltd I was trained to use AutoCAD LT. I used this software to draw up floor plans of flats, houses and even caravan parks. These plans would then be used to produce elevations of the buildings. The biggest achievement from this job was designing a three-bedroom house in Southampton from scratch as well as communicating with clients either through email or in person by holding meetings.

I progressed from a Junior Web Developer to a Web Developer within the first 6 months of my employment at RSTO due to my success in creating quality websites within strict timeframes and my ability to self-teach new platforms quickly. My responsibilities in this job have also extended to training new staff, producing internal training material and quality control checking websites for the department. On a daily basis I design and develop E-commerce and CMS websites, working with Amazon and Joomla platforms. Through this job alone I have worked on more than 100 websites with clients including Darren Clarke’s Golf School. The websites have been created on behalf of major telecommunications and E-commerce channels.

The main duty of this job is calling pre-selected or random members of the public and companies to carry out market research over the phone for a variety of clients including the NHS, the Crown Prosecution Service, the UK Exit Poll and Sport England. The job requires a lot of patience and accuracy with a need to be very outgoing and approachable. I typically worked a 30 hour week at Ipsos Mori whilst completing my Masters full time at Edinburgh Napier University.

During my time at Whitespace I worked on websites and Facebook campaigns for the Scottish Government, RBS, Innis & Gunn, Tennent’s, Aegon Tennis, Kames Capital and Highland Spring to name but a few. I also built the website for the Whitespace Tweet Train which won the Chairman's Award for Design at the 2013 Scottish Design Awards as well as the Item of Self Promotion Award. The work involved XHTML, CSS3, PHP, XSLT, jQuery, Prototype JS, MySQL and PSQL, working with Expression Engine and Drupal and using SVN and Git.

Activities and Societies: Modules Included: * Quality Engineering - 88% * Ergonomics - 80% * Mathematics - 80% * Industrial Design - 70% * Market Analysis - 68% * Innovation Management - 68%

Dissertation Title: Comparative Study for Targeting Individualised Learner Needs in a Language e-Learning Environment. An e-learning application where teachers create courses and lessons online or select from a pool of pre-prepared lessons. The students join the courses, submit their assessments and the application marks the work and generates feedback to the learner, suggesting lessons for the student to study and for the teacher to cover in the classroom. Activities and Societies: Modules: * Group Project - Mobile application using Google Android - D1 75-79% * Programming for the Web - XML, XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Ajax - D1 75-79% * Software Development - Java - D1 75-79% * Software Development 2 - Java - P5 70-74% * Computer Systems - Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Networking - P4 65-69% * E-Security - Encryption, Authentication, Intrusion Detection Systems - P4 65-69% * Database Systems - XFDM, SQL, Oracle - P3 60-64%