Personal details

Personal details available on request.

Hobbies & Interests

I am a keen distance runner, having participated in various events over the past few years including the Basingstoke Half Marathon in 2012 and most recently the British 10k in Central London. I will be taking part in the Great South Run this October and I am in the ballot for the 2018 London Marathon. On Saturday mornings I take part in Southampton Parkrun, and occasionally volunteer to help with running the event.

I am a member of Southampton Travellers Cricket Club, playing cricket during the Summer months and managing the club website throughout the year. I am also currently learning Mandarin Chinese; My wife is Taiwanese, so my aim is to overcome the language barrier that can sometimes be an issue when visiting her family in Taipei.

Special Skills

I have been developing applications for Google’s Android operating system for seven years, from the release of 1.5 "Cupcake" onwards. Most recently I am currently developing a Snooker scoreboard application with the aim of keeping my skills fresh with Android’s more recent features such as Material Design, and to improve my focus on automated testing via JUnit and Espresso.

I have many years’ personal experience of working with Linux-based systems in both a desktop and server environment. I use a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian to perform various tasks on my home network such as DHCP, DNS and a Google Cloud print server. In my current role at 4Com I have used this experience to help determine hardware specifications and configure multiple linux-based build servers, resulting in an increased build capacity of 50% and reducing build times per server by 33%.

While Java is my primary language, I am also able to write smaller applications in C and C++. For example, in my current role I was able to provide additional networking functionality to AOSP 4.3 by creating small system-level services that are started up at boot time. I also have experience of cross-language communication between Java and C++ via the Java Native Interface (JNI).

High School

Devonport High School for Boys
Sept 2001 - January 2006

Advanced Subsidiary Level

• Media Studies - C

General Certificate of Secondary Education

• Information Communication Technology - A*
• Science (Double Award) - A* A*
• Mathematics - A
• German - A
• Systems Control - A
• English Language - A
• English Literature - B
• Music - B
• History - C