Nationality: British
Email: mail at alexadranghi.com
Website: www.alexadranghi.com

Primary Education

June 2008 - Present, London School of Economics / External System, University of London, London, UK

BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Economics

• Studying part-time and by distance. Modules include Introduction to Economics, Mathematics and Statistics.

Sept 2003 - June 2007, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Year in Industry, Upper Second Class (68%)

• Awarded a first class result for the final year project, the creation of a location-based client-server mobile service. Project capable of retrieving data from a database or performing data acquisition and mediation on external network sources. Utilised Java ME with JSR 082, Python, ASN.1 PER, XML and Google Maps API.
• Achieved a first class result for industrial year at LogicaCMG through employer's feedback and written report
• Led a team of thirteen to a first class result for our second year major project, a chat server and client.
• The course covered software engineering (Java, Haskell, C), engineering tools (Z, UML), concurrency (Occam-π), HCI, security, cryptography, web technology, networking, operating systems, graphs, and neural networks.

Sept 2001 - June 2003, Peter Symonds College, Winchester, UK

A-Levels: Computing (B), Mathematics (C), Physics (C), Film Studies (C)

• Software development in Pascal/Delphi and PHP in Computing.

Sept 1996 - June 2001, Thornden Secondary School, Eastleigh, UK

9 GCSE's grade A-B including Mathematics and English

• Work experience at IBM's Hursley Laboratory tasked with writing documentation and developing with Java SE.
• Winning team member at the school's business enterprise day. Represented school at regional business activity competition and at the Science, Engineering and Technology 2000 event at IBM Hursley.

Industrial Experience

June 2006 - Sept 2006, Summer Student, Software Development - nCipher, Cambridge, UK

• Developed an OpenBSD 3.9 software build platform and ported a product to it.
• Profiling product with C and Python in the integration of Windows Vista's cryptographic API (CNG).

June 2005 - June 2006, Industrial Placement Student - LogicaCMG, Newbury, UK

• A client facing position at Vodafone's staging network run by LogicaCMG as an Assistant Technical Architect.
• Lead developer and full development cycle experience with the development of an X.25 management network, SIGTRAN network monitoring solution and inter-site network disruption emulation system.
• Authored system and network design, and resource provisioning for test programmes in the data centre.
• Devised and delivered performance analysis to the client to ensure confidence in the project.
• System administration on Solaris, Debian, IOS, HP-UX, Tru64, Windows NT/2000/2003 Server and Exceed on Demand server. Physical administration of servers, including Sun E6900, E10000, HP 9000 series, Cisco switches and routers and Raritan terminal servers.

Dec 2004 - June 2005, Consultant - Kent IT Clinic, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

• Consulting on client's site and within the clinic to local SME on IT infrastructure.
• Assisted clinic coordinator in overall project and resource management. Student representative of the Steering Committee and was involved in turning the Clinic into a University of Kent course module.
• Led the training programme, devising mock projects, monitoring and reviewing student progression.
• Successfully worked in a team to create the project laboratory.

April 2004 - April 2007, Technology Operations Director - Evendrive Systems Ltd, Canterbury, UK

• Responsible for overall management of the Skylis unit on a daily basis, bids and liaising with clients.
• Web development with LAMP (Python and PHP) and some experience with Java Enterprise.
• Website design, managing customer accounts, and technical support.
• Systems administration on Redhat Enterprise, SuSE and Debian, utilising Xen virtualisation technology and services such as web, mail, database and DNS.

March 2002 - Sept 2003, Marketing & Public Relations, Co-Founder and Partner - Ionic Hosting, Winchester, UK

• Successfully marketed web hosting products and forged corporate partnerships. Grew to power over 150 sites.
• Fluent HTML/CSS skills from web design and web programming with PHP. Developer of a fully-automated remote host monitoring service that integrated with Paypal.
• Handled technical and customer support as first line support officer.

Additional Experience & Education

July 2008, Standard Arabic Regular Course, Beginners - University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria

March 2008 - April 2008, Divemaster Trainee - Big Blue Diving Resort, Koh Tao, Thailand

• Developed the technical, logistical and customer skills to work as a lead diver and teaching assistant.

Sept 2006 - June 2007, Course, Department and Faculty Representative - Kent Union, Canterbury, UK

• Represented the academic views of over 5000 students and leading 78 representatives in the Faculty.

Sept 2006 - May 2007, Secretary - Archery Club, Kent Union, Canterbury, UK

Oct 2004 - June 2007, Committee Member, Officer, Treasurer - Computing Society, University of Kent, UK

Affiliations & Awards

• Professional Member (MBCS), British Computer Society (since 2008)
• Member, Professional Association of Diving Instructors (since 2008)
• Member, Fabian Society (since 2008)
• Kent Student Certificate for Volunteering Gold, Kent Union (2006-7)
• Most Committed Student Representative, Kent Union (2006-7)

Interests & Achievements

• I maintain a number of open source software projects in my spare time, using various languages including Python, C++/Boost and C#/GTK. I made contribution to the MoinMoin project in 2006.
• Post-university gap year travelling around the world between September 2007 and August 2008.
• I have current first aid and AED training.
• I play badminton and fence, and was a member of the University of Kent's clubs.
• Interest in current affairs, international relations, government. I am writing a novel and compose music.

References

On request.