Glasgow Caledonian University Sept 1999 - Aug 2001
BSc Information Management Systems
Sept 2000 - Aug 2001: Work Placement with MINEit Software,Belfast
Subjects Feb 2000 - May 2000: Multimedia Software Development, Database Systems Development and Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems
Subjects Sept 1999 - Jan 2000: Corporate Information Systems (Access), Software Design Methods (Pascal) and Software Development Pinciples (SSADM)

Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education
Sept 1997 - June 1999
HND Business Information Technology
Distinction (6 subjs), Merit (6 subjs), Pass (5 subjs)
18 subjects were studied including: Internet Development (HTML, Frontpage), Human Computer Interface (Visual Basic), Project Management & Development and Databases in Business (Access)

Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education
Sept 1995 - June 1997
GNVQ Business Advanced Level 3 (Equivalent to 3 'A' Levels)
18 subjects were studied including: Advertising, Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate Image and Business Planning. Merit achieved overall

Newtownbreda High School, Belfast 1990 - 1995
GCSE (Grades A-C) Art, Accounts, Mathematics, English, History, Science

Northbrook Technology of Northern Ireland (NTNI)
July 2002 - August 2005
Software Developer (October 2004 - August 2005): Working in close contact with Allstate Canada and TIG (Technical Innovations Group). Redevoloping Allstate Insurance System using XML and Process Studio. Creating back end interfaces, rules and data mappings.

Software Tester (July 2002 - October 2004): Part of the Independent Agent Management team (IAM). Responsible for the thorough testing of AMS Insurance System using XML test cases. Heavily involved in testing Allstate Insurance Online quotation system. Duties include completing assigned test pieces within agreed time scales, providing required output data and reports. Also supplying regular feedback to internal customer outlining progress and highlighting issues regarding the Allstate website.
Defect Manager and Team Leader backup
Automated / Regression testing using WinRunner

MINEit Sofware Limited
September 2000 - December 2001
Web Developer / Research Assistant
My duties involved updating the company website, designing and developing Flash Walkthrough movies and the construction of a Javascript data collection product. I am competent in HTML, PHP, SQL, Photoshop and Flash with experience in Javascript, ASP, JSP, WML and Perl. Through extensive research, self-training and involvement in several company projects I have realised that I have the ability to learn languages quickly. I left MINEit Software due to redundancy.