Résumé

Adam JC Taylor

adamjctaylor@gmail.com
07882166643

SUMMARY

Final year software engineering undergraduate at Durham University. Two years experience of Perl LAMP development in a small production team at a top London-based digital agency. Two years of academic-based Java (J2SE & J2ME) experience. One year of freelance and open source development using CakePHP and Wordpress.

EDUCATION

Durham University

Currently in the final year of a three year Software Engineering degree at the University of Durham. Aiming for a minimum of a 2.1.

Took on a number of key roles in a complex group software engineering project with students from Newcastle University:

  • Project managed the requirements analysis task and co-authored the requirements document (awarded 76%).
  • Worked within a small team to design the software system and authored the design document (awarded 71%)
  • Responsible for developing Java (J2ME) code to interface and read data from a GPS device attached to a PDA and from the wifi card.

Progammed a variety of applications for university assignments in Java, including but not limited to:

  • A socket based Remote Method Invocation book store application using Java (awarded 71%)
  • A simple fair ground model utilising the Java3D API (awarded 70%).
  • An implementation of a genetic algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (awarded 75%).

Created a hypothetical database system for a school to facilitate the tracking of truancy and medical incidences using the following techniques:

  • UML class diagrams to model the data and classes.
  • MySQL to implement the database.
  • Relational algebra and SQL queries to project the data.