Education

2010 - 2013

Aberystwyth University

Computer Science - Internet Computing

Bsc

2007 - 2009

Yale College, Wrexham

Interactive Media and Photography

BTEC National Diploma

Employment

March 2009

Yale Digital Story Workshop

Creative Mentor and Technical Support/Advisor

Yales' Digital Story Workshop was based in Holt, Wrexham. The idea behind the workshop was to get the local people of all ages to individualy produce a digital story based on their memories of Holt. My job was to mentor participants and to help other mentors/participants with techincal difficulties on the Macintosh laptops and also with Adobe Creative Suite.

November 2008

Concept For Living Magazine

Photographers Assistant

I had to assit the photographer for 'Concept For Living' magazine (Jazz Publishing’s) on location.

January – December 2008

Jan Miller Photography

Photographers Assistant

I assisted Jan Miller at her portrait studio for a year. My jobs ranged from making tea to taking some photographs, but mainly setting up the studio lights and other equipment such as reflectors and the backdrop.

March 2007

Design Reality

Work Experience

At Design Reality I was on work experience in the graphic design section. They gave me mock projects to work on and after a few days of mock projects they decided I was good enough for live work. I was working with Adobe Photoshop.

Freelance Clients

November 2009

Ice Age Media

Website Design

I worked freelance for Ice Age Media doing website desing work.

December 2008

Jan Miller Photography

Website Photographs

I was asked to photograph Jan Miller for her website.

Summer 2008

CycleLife (Raleigh/Diamondback)

Editorial Photographs

I photographed the Rhyl Cyclelife BMX and Skateboard competition. One of my photographs was chosen for a nationwide poster advert and other images chosen for CycleLifes company magazine.

Exhibitions

June 2008

"We'll Keep a Welcome"

Theatre Clwyd

I had to produce photographs for the exhibition based on the play "We'll Keep a Welcome", a play written by Michael Stevens.

Skills + Interests

Development Languages

HTML5 & CSS3
Javascript / jQuery
PHP
mySQL
Java
Perl

Applications

Adobe Suite
Aperture
Unix Terminal

Personal

I run a network of websites to expand my interests in the creative media industry. I also have lots of experiments;

Helvetihome :: A home for all your favourite links.
Bbmbarcode.net :: BBM Barcode (QR code) Generator.
My Laboratory :: This is the home of my experiments and personal projects.

Other Stuff! (Not all nerdy)

I played Inline Hockey for 10 years, playing for a number of teams; St Asaph Shadows, Celtic Pirates, Flintshire and I have represented Great Britain in Hong Kong. I am also a qualified Inline Hockey Referee for the North Wales and Flintshire Leagues and have refereed matches for under 12's, under 14's, under 16's, under 18's and under 21's age groups.