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About

About me

Welcome to the design blog and portfolio of James Wilson. Currently I am working on improving my skills in web design/development and photography.

Employment

Employer	Position	Responsibilities
Bluecube Solutions	Web Designer	Developing & designing websites.
Misco.co.uk -Systemax Europe Ltd	Web Designer	Eshots, landing pages, banners and micro site creation. For the UK, France and Spain.
Northampton Council	IT Technician/Web Designer & Developer	Develop Web Sites, Create Graphical Content, Video Podcasts, Software support for staff and students. Hardware support for 500+ PC’s. Server back up and active directory maintenance. Networking and cabling. Software training and teaching.

Skills

Adobe Design Premium CS3, Photoshop CS3,  Microsoft Visual Web Developer, Dreamweaver, Illustrator CS3, Flash 8, InDesign, After Effect 7, Adobe Audition 2.0, Premiere Pro 2.0 (Including Chroma Keying), Encore DVD, C++, OpenGL, OpenAL, Blender, 3dsMAX, XHTML, PHP, MYSQL, CSS, XML, Google Maps API, JavaScript and Lyris. PC/Server maintenance and building. Networking and cabling.

DRIVING: Full Clean UK driving license plus own transport. 

Training

• Dreamweaver MX 2004 Introduction - Nov 2006
• Dreamweaver MX 2004 Advanced - Nov 2006
• Photoshop CS2 Advanced - Nov 2006

University

Institute	Course	Grade
University of East Anglia (UEA)	Computer Science - Specialising in Computer Graphics BSc	2:1

Modules covered at University:

• Computer Graphics I – C++/OpenGL
• Computer Graphics II – C++/OpenGL
• Internet Technologies – XML, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, SQL
• Animation & Virtual Environments – 3ds MAX, C++/OpenGL
• Computational Geometry – C++/OpenGL
• Object Modelling & Rendering – C++/OpenGL
• Computational Modelling – Maple 9.5
• Human Factors/Human Computer Interfaces – Interface Analysis
• Data Structures and Techniques – Java, C/C++
• Software Development Techniques – Javacc, Java, Perl
• Quantitative Methods – Excel, SPSS
• Professional Practice & Project – Teamwork, Communication, Presentation
• 3rd Year Project – ‘Realistic Atmospheric and Weather Effects’ Creating multiple realistic weather effects in a basic 3D Game environment. C++/OpenGL/OpenAL

Hobbies & Interest

Digital Photography

Please view my portfolio of digital photography on the Fotolia site. I love the challenges that photography brings and exploring the outside wilderness.

I am now developing my photography skills further with a digital SLR camera.

 

Music/Guitar

I taught myself to play the guitar and have played in a few bands. Below you can listen to tracks from one of the bands i've played in - Captain Skalet. My music interest vary from Rock/Indie/Ska/Country - Pixies, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Ash, Ben Folds, Pavement, Frank Black.

 Captain Skalet demos

© Captian Skalet 2003