Jonathan Roscoe

Academic Interests

September '09 will be the start of my fourth year in a five-year software engineering course at the University of Aberystwyth. My modules of study for this year include:

• Computer vision
• Visualisation
• Interactive Computer Graphics
• Server-side software development
• Professional issues in software engineering

Professional Interests

The majority of my interest is in software design, code development and algorithms. Tertiary interests include data communication and security, user accessibility, requirements analysis and web based software solutions.

Professional Experience

I recently completed a 12 month placement with Gradwell as a part of my software engineering course.

• Web based control panels with PHP and MySQL including use of frameworks such as Symfony and WASP
• CMS development using Zope with Plone (python) and postgis
• AJAX enhanced website development including use of mootools and extjs libraries and openlayers
• Limited work involving development of Mailman and OpenSER

Technical Skills

• Full time linux user familiar with several distributions - Ubuntu, Slackware and CentOS
• Experience using and maintaning Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in development and production environments
• Knowledge of debugging and code profiling, particularly with PHP
• Proponent of revision control systyems, in particular subversioon

Additional Skills

• Willingness to learn and face new challenges
• Team working skills developed through experience of project work and recreational groups
• Written, visual and spoken communication skills developed through personal and academic essay writing, group and individual presentations and poster creation
• Time management skills developed over years to meet deadlines promptly and without rush
• Ability to operate under stress through experience in reinstating/repairing mission critical systems
• Analytical and problem solving skills developed through academic experience as a software engineering student

Career Ideals

I would like to work as part of a team, but with a degree of independence and the freedom to implement my own ideas. I think it is important to continue learning and feel the opportunity for professional development as well as training in new areas of computer science is essential.

I would welcome the chance to travel for work, but it is not essential to my career. I would also be interested in short term relocation (less than 3 years) to coastal North America.

Although I am currently focused on expanding my technical ability and experience, in later years I would hope to increase professional responsibility and gain experience in management and business strategy.

My ideal job should be challenging, provide opportunities to develop new products as well as old ones and will pay very highly.