JOHN PAUL WILKINSON


Address:		45 Montague Court, Montague Hill South, Bristol  BS2 8HT
Tel No:			07931-964-255
E-mail:			wilkinso@cs.bris.ac.uk
Homepage:		www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~wilkinso
Date of Birth:		9th September 1972

PERSONAL PROFILE

I am a motivated science graduate studying for a Masters Degree in Computer Science at the University of Bristol.
I have a proven academic record and experience of working within both a scientific and an engineering role.
In addition to this solid foundation is my determination to undertake continued training as a central part of 
pursuing a long term career in the IT industry.

EDUCATION

· 1998 - 1999 :  University of Bristol.

	MSc Computer Sc.: 	75% average at present (1st Class).  Finishes 30th September.
	
	Masters Dissertation:  Calibration of Multiple Sensors in a Decentralised Data Fusion System.
	I am currently working at the Sowerby Research Centre at British Aerospace on my dissertation 
	involving Java applet programming, data-fusion, sensor calibration, wireless networking and image
	processing.  
  
	
· 1994 - 1997 :  University of Sheffield
		
	BSc Zoology:		Upper Second Class with Honours (2.1).
		
· 1992 - 1994 :  Canterbury College, Canterbury, Kent.
	
	A-Levels:			Physics (B), Chemistry (B), Biology (B).	

· 1984 - 1989 :  Astor School, Dover, Kent.

	GCSEs:  		Maths (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A), Biology (A), Geography (A)	
				Computer Science (B), English Lang. (B), English Lit. (B).

IT SKILLS SUMMARY 

Hardware:		PC, Sun Workstation, Silicon graphics, Apple Macintosh.
Operating Systems:	MS-DOS, Windows 95/NT, Unix, Solaris, MacOS.  
Programming Lang.:	C, Java (inc. AWT/JDBC/Network).
Development Tools:	CodeWarrior, MS Visual C++/J++ , J Builder.
Databases:		Oracle:  SQL (PL/SQL) including anonymous blocks and stored procedures.
Methodology:		SSADM, UML.
Internet:		Webpage development using HTML e.g.: www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~wilkinso

IT EXPERIENCE

· 22/3/99 - 26/3/99:  San Paolo IMI Bank, Wren House, Carter Lane, London EC4.
 	IT Department:  	 General user support, software design using Visual C++, archiving, server installation 
 				 and network virus control.

· 29/3/99 - 2/4/99:  Societe Generale Bank, Richmond House, Catherine Wharf, London EC1.
	Network Administration:  Implementation of TCP/IP and netBEUI protocols, Bloomberg and Reuters user support,
				 hardware/storage device installation, Archiving and webpage design.

IT at the University of Bristol

The masters degree at Bristol has been designed and approved in close collaboration with the IT industry.  The aim 
of this intensive course is to produce quality computer professionals who have an overall understanding of computer 
science, advanced knowledge of both C and JAVA and proficiency in the principles of software engineering.

IT at the University of Sheffield

My degree at Sheffield involved a three year parallel course in biological computation.  This involved principles of
data interpretation, data manipulation and techniques in both written and graphical presentation.  I was also given
the responsibility of using statistical software to process all field data during a two week visit to a research
station in Portugal.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

· Jan. 1998 - Sept. 1998:  Wyeth Laboratories UK Ltd, New Lane, Havant, Hampshire.
	
	Microbiological Analyst:  responsible for method development, antibiotic assays, reservative efficacy, 
				  environmental monitoring, computational analysis and the production of
			          analytical reports.  I was also responsible for attending monthly departmental
				  meetings and then communicating this information by formally briefing the ten
				  staff in my laboratory.  

· April 1990 - July 1992:  Balfour Beatty Power, Channel Tunnel Contractors, Dover, Kent.
	
	Junior Planning Engineer: responsible for the production of detailed instructions for the co-ordination of
				  electrical installation.  The job required use of dedicated planning software, 
				  construction drawings and the ability to work as part of a dynamic engineering
				  team.

ACHIEVEMENTS 

· Position of representative student for A-Level sciences at Canterbury College 1994.
· Astor Award for Senior Chemistry - 1989.
· Astor Award for Attainment - 1989.
· Full clean driving licence - held since May 1992.

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES 

· Member of the Air Training Corps (RAF cadet organisation) from 1986 - 1990.	
	- NCO responsible for Expedition and First Aid training.
	- Duke of Edinburgh Award - Silver.
 
· During my degree at Sheffield I became involved in the following organisations;
   	- Sub-Aqua club, reaching BSAC Novice II Diver. 
      	- Taekwondo club.
 
· At present I am training for a 100km endurance event (Dodentocht) in Belgium next summer.
· I play 5-a-side weekly with a team from the MSc group and regularly attend the University gym.  

REFERENCES

Available on request.