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.