Alex Adams BEng (Hons) MIET

My professional experience comprises nine years of engineering and four years of management.

My engineering experience has been gained from employment as a software and systems engineer in communications, digital audio and the defence industry.

My management experience has been gained as a project manager in the defence industry and as a production manager in the theatre and film industry.

I have been responsible for the development and delivery of new product, midlife technical upgrades, the organisation and delivery of technical demonstrations and the production of theatre and film projects.

I have been working with web technologies off and on since 1999 and in 2007 started running my own web design, development and management business, Juju Web Solutions.

Occasionally I work as the production manager for DayWalker Productions, a Suffolk based film and theatre production company.

In my business roles, I am the technical director for Closer to home, a start-up company specialising in online property advertising and I a director of Chocloate Juju, my wife's company, specialising in chocolate fountain hire, cakes for all occasions and hand made chocolates.

Credentials

I am a member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and I hold an upper second class bachaelor of engineering with honours gained at the University of Plymouth (Graduated 2000).

Vocational training

2006   West Suffolk College - Foundation Food Hygiene
Collin Associates - Internal Quality Systems Auditor Course
2003   Thales Université - Project Management (1-week course tailored to Thales Optronics Ltd)
 
2002   Thales Université - Project Management Foundation
I-Logix - Rhapsody C++ Tool Training
ERA Technology - The Art of Designing for EMC
 
2000   Microsoft Visual Basic - Mastering the Fundamentals
 
1993   City & Guilds 7261/2 Diploma in Computer Applications
 
1992   City & Guilds 7261/1 Certificate in Computer Applications
 
1988   EITB Certificate in Engineering
Alex Adams

Skills base

Web based development

  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL

Application development

Languages

  • Visual/C++
    • Microsoft
    • Borland
  • Visual Basic
  • LabView
  • ADA

Tools & enviornments

  • Rhapsody
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • Visual Studio 6
  • LDRA (static and dynamic testing)
  • Bounds Checker

Platforms

  • Windows
    • 98, NT, 2000, XP
  • Mac OS X
    • 10.4 Tiger
  • Linux
    • OpenSuse 10.2 Server

Administration

  • SVN
  • Apache 2 HTTP Server
  • VSFTP
  • MySQL 5