| Tel: 020 8050 8069 | Born: Watford General Hospital | Email: emailgarvin@gmail.com |
| D.o.B: 15.01.1979 | Nationality: British / German | Driving licence: Full licence (no points) |
| SMS only: 07341 838032 | Address: 16 Brackendene, Bricket Wood, St.Albans, Hertfordshire, AL2 3SX | |
Education and Qualifications: |
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| Schools and University's: | Qualifications: |
Edge Grove (1987-1992 8-13 years old)   |
Common Entrance (11 passes)
Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, English Language, English Literature, Latin, History, French, Art |
Aldenham / Berkhamsted (1993-1995 14-16 years old)   |
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results (10 passes) Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, English Language, English Literature, Business, History, French |
Brooke House College (1995-1997 16-18 years old)  |
Advanced Level (A-levels) (3 passes)
Pure Mathematics & Mechanics, Physics, Business Studies |
University of Sussex (1999 : foundation - 2003 20-24 years old)  |
Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS), researchers and students in artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience and philosophy. Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence with Management Studies Arun House, Hurst Rd , Horsham RH12 2DN, West Sussex + Crawley + Pevensey II, Science Park Rd, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ Foundation: Database and application development, C++ object-oriented programming and programming design, developing necessary mathematics and study skills, as well as basic programming skills in C. Foundation Autumn teaching: Communication and Learning Skills, Foundation Programming, Mathematics for Computing 1, Autumn and spring teaching: Computing Project. Spring teaching: Database and Application Development, Mathematics for Computing 2, Program Design. Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS) University of Sussex was Top 15 in the UK, Top 20 in Europe and Top 100 in the world by The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings |
Brighton University (2009-2011)  |
MBA -International Management - Masters Business Administration |
PR International, Unit 2, Aerial Park, Asheridge road, Chesham, HP5 2ZE
January 1995 -> Present (contact details: DALE HUNTER via tel: 020 8050 8069 / pr@printernational.co.uk / www.printernational.co.uk)
The company is engaged in manufacture and international distribution and my position is Business Manager/ Computer Scientist, working directly with the Managing Director. I worked both full & part-time on order processing, logistics, Accounting Clerk (Bookkeeper by spreadsheet), filing receipts and invoices, preparing financial statements, general office administration, internationally travelling meeting senior managment and production managers of factories across Europe and the Middle East, purchasing of materials/ components/ manufacturing equipment/ calculation materials/ stocked items/ rewinding/ slitting/ warehouse duties and booking keeping/ Accounting (VAT returns & EC Sales Lists) in multiple currencies and logistics (Letter of Credits/ Certificate of Origin/ A.TR, EUR 1's with Watford Chamber of Commerce). I personally developed their whole IT infrastructure (networks, website, spreadsheets and supply chain network through database powered online ordering). I attended trade exhibitions abroad to develop international contacts in manufacturing and frequently email, telephone and skype companies.
Mercury (Sitel Corp.), Moor Park, Rickmansworth, WD1 8GJ
February 1994 -> May 1994 (short term contract assignment contact: FERGAL CRAWLEY via fergalc@sitel.co.uk)
The job was making outbound calls to existing BT users, offering them the financial benefit of changing over to Mercury. It required thorough knowledge of the Mercury service as well as strong sales techniques. A prime requirement was to understand fully the company's program database and quick mathematical calculations to translate the customers phone bills into achievable savings. I had set a superior sales level for a 6 week period of which I was rewarded for.
Cable and Wireless, 21 Upton Road, Watford
July 1992 -> December 1993
Cable and Wireless required many different fields of knowledge. The job required transferring BT customers over onto the cable service. Our department was called Number Porting. The whole process of transporting a BT client over onto the cable service required a lot of contact with BT themselves and the customer, for porting numbers and installing cable lines into the house. Some of the tasks that I was trained for are as follows:
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Software: |
| Binary, Assembly Code, C, C++, Java | CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor , UNIX - Solaris | Flowjo Software (FlowJo v10.5) |
| Javascript, CSS, DTD | BBC BASIC for BBC Micro, Commodore BASIC 2.0 for Commodore 64, Sinclair BASIC on Spectrum ZX, AmigaDOS 1.34 on Commodore Amiga 500, PC-DOS 1.10, MS Dos 3.3 for Amstrad PPC640 + EPSON LX-800, Microsoft Windows 3 on a 386 DX2, 3.1,95,98,98SE, Mac OS (Macintosh System 7.5.3) | WordStar Express, VisiCalc, MS Office all versions + Lotus, Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Outlook |
| Java J2EE, JDK | 2000, NT, XP, XP Professional SP2, Vista,8,10 UEFI | Open/Libre Office, Star Office, AbiWord, Gnuneric, QuickOffice |
| HTML, JDBC | Linux types :SliTaz (.tazpkg), Puppy | Adobe Premier/Photoshop, OBS Studio, Flowblade, Kdenlive, Gimp |
| SQL, XML | Red Hat, Open SUSE, Fedora (.rpm) | Telnet. FTP, Putty, client/server networking, Smb4k, regexxer |
| Visual Basic | Mandrake 10.1, Mandriva | Window managers > Common Desktop Environment, Window-Maker, Openbox, LXDE, KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment, Unity, Gnome 1 & 2, LXQt |
| JSP, EJB, php, | Mac OS X, Debian (.deb + apt), Maemo for my mobile phone (Nokia N900), Ubuntu LTS 6.04 onwards with Xorgs Xubuntu / Lubuntu + Knoppix, Damn Small Linux + Crunchbang 10,11 (developed by Philip Newborough, based in Lincoln UK, 2011- 2013), Bunsenlabs, SparkyLinux LXQt and Ubuntu MATE for the GPD Pocket 3 on github, Ubuntu MATE for Dell 5424 Toughbook Rugged Laptop Core i7-8650u 32GB Ram 1TB SSD | SSH (rsa, dsa private keys), SFTP, Editing Registry, Kernal modifications/compiling, Terminal Server Client |
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