Andrew Price

A bit about me (Pseudo-CV)

The basics

• From: Cardiff
• Graduated: Computer Science BSc (hons), Swansea University

Interests

• Coding
• Free/Open source software
  
• Swansea University Computer Society
• Playing guitar
• Art
• Literature
• Philosophy
• The world of technology and business
• Cycling
• Many other things

Work experience

• UKFSN Sponsorship

  • Contributing to free software for the UK Free Software Network as part of their Profits programme (covered on Linux.com)

• Sports Council Wales

  • One year working as an admin assistant in the finance department
  • Two years as a grants officer in the grants department
  • Two months (Summer work while at university) system testing and data migration
  • Attended training courses:
    • Report writing for the Sun Accounts system (London, 3 days)
    • Plain Language (one day course)
    • Assertiveness (one day course)

• Swansea University Computer Society

  • President, 2005
  • Treasurer, 2006
  • Systems administrator, 2005 - (ongoing)

• Misc

  • Voluntary Bug triage for Ubuntu
  • Various package fixing, merging and sync'ing for Ubuntu
  • Became an Ubuntu Member in September 2006
  • Four hours tutoring Computer Science students in Java programming (Yes, they passed)

Computer skills

• Knowledge of several computer programming/markup languages including:

  From school/University:

  • Java
  • Prolog
  • VB
  • ASP (VBscript)
  • Pascal
  • C
  • Haskell

  Self-taught:

  • Java (Started learning 2 years before university)
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • Javascript
  • C++
  • Python
  • Common Lisp
  • Smalltalk
  • Bash
  • HTML (from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.1,)
  • CSS
  • RSS 2.0
• A good knowledge of the GNU/Linux operating systems, esp. Ubuntu and Fedora, proficient at the commandline.
• Experience in group development using version control systems (CVS, Subversion, Git, Bazaar, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of assembly language.
• A good knowledge of Windows use and administration

Key

My GPG public key can be found here.