I have been a huge fan of technology from a young age and I'm always looking out for the latest gadgets on the market.
This site is mainly to showcase my work with local organisations and companies around the West Midlands, most of which are based in Coventry.
If you would like more information about my work or you would like me to work with you, feel free to contact me!
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07/2023 - Present
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Duke of Edinburgh Programme Lead
The Mercian Trust
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Responsible for coordinating and delivering the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award across the academy, including student enrolment, section tracking, expedition planning, and staff training. Promotes leadership, resilience, and outdoor education through structured, inclusive opportunities.
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01/2023 - Present
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Head of Computing
The Mercian Trust
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Led the department through a successful Computing Quality Mark application, making the academy the second secondary school in the West Midlands to achieve the award. Overhauled the Key Stage 3, 4, and 5 curriculum to embed academic rigour and high expectations across all year groups. Oversaw significant reform of assessment practices within the subject, ensuring alignment with national standards and improved tracking of student progress.
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02/2022 - 11/2022
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Duke of Edinburgh Centre Manager
Central Region Schools Trust
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Oversaw the strategic delivery of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at a certified centre. Managed compliance, staff coordination, safeguarding, and quality assurance across all award levels. Acted as the primary liaison with the DofE regional office, ensuring high standards of participation and achievement.
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09/2018 - 12/2022
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Teacher of Computer Science
Central Region Schools Trust
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Created, developed and delivered appropriate Computing National Curriculum for the school and wider trust. Taken a pastoral role as a form tutor to engage with year 10 students delivering several PSHCE sessions which they are given the chance to voice their opinions of everyday issues. Primary teacher of Key Stage 3 Computing, Year 11 Computer Science and Year 12 BTEC IT students.
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Previous Employment
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02/2016 - 07/2017
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Student Academic Partner
Birmingham City University
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Helped lecturers within research projects. The main project developed and delivered a student support pack for students with learning difficulties such as Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.
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02/2017 - 07/2017
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Data Entry Assistant
Birmingham City University
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Entered information that students have filled into their mid-module evaluations. Also linked these forms to the relevant modules and send the completed reports to the module coordinator.
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02/2016 - 06/2016
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Demonstrator
Birmingham City University
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Supported academic staff and fellow demonstrators with ensuring students were completing set work and assisting if they had questions. Provided in-depth support surrounding web design projects as part of their module including troubleshooting programming issues and errors encountered by students during lab sessions. Ensured electronic equipment was used correctly and completing basic troubleshooting if equipment did not work.
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06/2015 - 07/2016
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Services Support Assistant/Checkout Team Leader
WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC
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Supported customers requiring help on the checkouts, car park, cafe, dry cleaning and kiosk. Assisted Team Managers with the closedown, change runs and some of the administration work. Also dealt with personnel issues such as appraisals, disciplinary and general staffing issues.
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11/2014 - 11/2015
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Grocery Sales Assistant
WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC
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Restocked shelves, reduce damaged items and process goods not for resale. Helped customers locate items that they require.
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11/2013 - 11/2014
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Trolley Assistant
WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC
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Collected baskets and trolleys around the premises and ensures that they are both clean and safe for the next customer. Required to work to tight deadlines during the evening to ensure that the next team could continue the work in a safe and clean environment.
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Volunteering Experience
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07/2023 - Present
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Children’s Workforce Children and Youth Worker
The Parish of Keresley with Coundon
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Led groups with other members of the Church and previously helped lead the Sunday morning worship sessions. Within the week, helped plan and lead the main youth group for school years 7-11.
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Education
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10/2020 - 08/2023
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Masters in Education (Teaching & Learning)
The Open University
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Effectively used information technology and information literacy skills to search for, exchange, process and evaluate information, framed and addressing problems, questions and issues. Demonstrated logical thought and the ability to form a clearly structured argument using established ideas and techniques of critical analysis and enquiry in evaluating information, arguments and assumptions.
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09/2017 - 08/2018
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PGCE Secondary Computer Science & IT
Birmingham City University
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Vice-president of the Mental Health Awareness society in 2017-2018 planned and coordinated events across the university for students with a wide range of mental health and invisible illnesses.
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09/2014 - 08/2017
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Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science
Birmingham City University
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Regular member of the Christian Union and helped them design and maintain their website. Co-founding President of BCU Mental Health Awareness contacting organisations and planning events with a team of students. Units include: Data Analysis, Software Development, Computer and Network Fundamentals, IT Professionalism, Web Technologies and Open Source Systems.
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09/2006 - 08/2014
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Secondary & Further Education
Coundon Court School
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10 GCSEs (or equivalent) incl. English, Maths and Science 3 A Levels (or equivalent) in IT (QCF), Computing and Product Design
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CS:Box is an innovative educational tool designed to support the teaching of key concepts from the UK Computing Curriculum. Building on the foundations of Bit:Box, CS:Box expands its scope to cover a wider range of essential computing topics, providing an interactive and engaging experience for students.
Creates BCU Harvard web citations; built to replace RefME, Cite This For Me, and other broken tools.
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Inspiration
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RefME got bought out my Cite This For Me and CTFM is terrible as it doesn't have the BCU-customised Harvard Referencing System. Many of the other Referencing Managers aren't that good either. We decided to fix this problem once and for all.
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What It Does
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It takes your input and converts the information you provide into a correctly formatted BCU Harvard citation - provided it's a web source.
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How We Built It
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A little bit of JS, loads of HTML, loads of CSS, loads of PHP, sprinkles of tears, a ton of swearing and loads of pain.
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Challenges We Ran Into
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PHP. Indentation. Semi-colons. Enough said.
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Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
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It works a lot better than we could have ever predicted.
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What We Learned
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Don't use PHP.
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What's next for Citation Needed?
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Extend it to other Referencing Systems and correct some of the design issues that are present. Also, finish actually building it.
Fast-paced CS quiz game for GCSE+ that tests code and theory using logic, speed, skill, and bluffing
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Inspiration
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I need to help my students revise for their exams... How do I do this?! They need to revise how to code and revise the theory... Why make an app in the language they learn... They look at the source code and play the game.
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What It Does
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Play it and find out! Students can be so lazy at times...
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How We Built It
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With Visual Basic in Visual Studio using Visual Prompts using our eyes
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Challenges We Ran Into
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Not using CSV... Then trying to use CSV... Then realising the CSV works but the rest of the code doesn't...
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Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
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1) It is finished... 2) That is all.
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What We Learned
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CSV is always an option... Probably the best... Possibly the only option...
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What's next for Exam Buff or Exam Bluff?
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Create more questions to help them with their revision. Put it into my lessons and challenge higher ability students to try and create their own version of the game (some framework would be provided)
BCU campaign exploring mental health resources and real stories of depression, anxiety, and bipolar.
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I Am Aware is a campaign run by BCU Mental Health Awareness that looks into the resources available for those living with mental health issues. The campaign also looks into the lives of people affected by mental health issues such as depression, Schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and Bipolar.
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Project StatusCompletedClientBirmingham City University Mental Health AwarenessDateNovember 2016Products CreatedWebsite, Short Films
Platform for societies to manage sign-ups, send texts, and update info using PHP, SQL, and Nexmo API
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Inspiration
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Many students unions use a template for their websites which means that most of the time, these websites don't work. Society+ allows not only students to sign up to societies, but also allows the society's executive committee to manage membership, email and text society members and update information about the society.
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How We Built It
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Using our experience with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL, we worked within Atom to create the main interface and the online designs. We used an installation of PHPMyAdmin with a MySQL engine to create the database which would be linked to the website. We also used the Nexmo API to provide an SMS service for the website. This API uses PHP POSTs, curl scripts and JSON queries.
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Challenges We Ran Into
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We originally used the Twilio API for our SMS services, however due to issues with their documentation and credit concerns, we switched to Nexmo which provided us with a fully comprehensive SMS API service.
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Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
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The SMS sending page worked so well, I have started using the code for my own purposes.
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What We Learned
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Always read the API documentation beforehand!
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What's next for Society+?
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Continued development so we have a fully finished, working product that universities may take lead from.
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HackathonBrumHack 6.0Created & Submitted25-26 March 2017Products CreatedWeb ApplicationView Project on Gitea
AI file sorter using Google NLP in C#. Auto-categorises any file. Awarded 3rd place at BullHacks 1.0
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Inspiration
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Sort.AI is an Windows service concept that sorts your files automatically using the Google Natural Language API. While doing coursework, I noticed that my file system could be abit more organised. Thats when my friend and I thought about using AI to organise our systems so we don't have to. That's where Sort.AI comes, inspired from the winner of BrumHack 5.0 who used the Google Natural Language API.
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What It Does
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Sort.AI is told where your 'Sort Bin' is and opens each text document and places it into the correct location. For example a document about Dogs would go into the Animals folder.
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How We Built It
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Using our experience with C# and knowledge within the Google Cloud API, we worked within the Visual Studio 2017 IDE to create both the form interface and the Windows Service. Unfortunately due to many things out of our hands we were unable to complete the Windows service. However, parts of the implementation have been included already, for example, the notification tray icon appearing and the ability to minimize to tray. We also used the Google Cloud API libraries to create our code.
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Challenges We Ran Into
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Everything! Literally everything, whether it was the API not connecting or the Windows service not running we came across many challenges while creating Sort.AI. Each of us had some form of battle whether it was against Visual Studio, GitHub or even the Google API. We collectively made decisions on how to tackle these issues including at times even swapping jobs around.
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Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
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Being able to understand the Google API a bit better and design methods where we can utilise the API for the general market.
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What We Learned
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If in doubt, Google's about!
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What's Next For Sort.AI?
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We will possibly begin to develop on the idea after BullHacks however due to other commitments and projects this may be unlikely but we might regroup and focus on working on this product in the near future.
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HackathonBullHacks 1.0Created & Submitted11-12 March 2017Position in Competition3rd PlaceProducts CreatedMicrosoft Windows ApplicationView Entry on DevPostView Project on Gitea
Interactive poem entry for BCU Christian Union art competition displayed in binary format & QR code.
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Written in February 2017 for an art competition for BCU Christian Union's Missions Week "Where is Identity Found?". I created a QR code that would take the user to a website which will offer a selection of the poem in multiple formats including a binary format. In the gallery, the piece was displayed in the binary format with the QR code at the bottom of the piece.
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Project StatusCompletedClientBirmingham City Univeristy Christian UnionDate20-22 February 2016Products CreatedWebsite and PoemView Project WebsiteView Project on Gitea
Bit:Box is an evolution of the Binary Light Box concept, a device which used lightbulbs and an Arduino microcontroller to visually demonstrate how binary numbers work and the values assigned to each binary column. By interacting with the light switches, students could better understand the concepts of binary counting, place values, and logic.
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Bit:Box Vs Binary Light Box
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The Binary Light Box was created to teach SEND students how binary works using physical lightbulbs and switches. The device was comprised of an MDF body with a black vinyl layer on the top. Inside the box was a micro:bit and several breakout boards to allow the device to sense when a switch was toggled and update a seven segment display to show the user the output.
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Project StatusOngoing - in code maintenance phaseLaunchedOriginal Binary Light Box Code - June 2021 Bit:Box (Arduino) Code - January 2022 Bit:Box (Web) Code - October 2022Products CreatedPhysical Binary Light Box using micro:bit V1 Physical Binary Light Box using Arduino Mega Microsoft Windows Application using Visual Basic .NET Website using Bootstrap Studio and original JavaScript code. View Binary Light Box on Gitea View Bit:Box (Arduino) on Gitea View Bit:Box (Windows) on Gitea View Bit:Box (Web) on Gitea
CS:Box is an innovative educational tool designed to support the teaching of key concepts from the UK Computing Curriculum. Building on the foundations of Bit:Box, CS:Box expands its scope to cover a wider range of essential computing topics, providing an interactive and engaging experience for students.
CS:Box is more than a collection of interactive tools — it is a guided learning experience for students to understand complex computing concepts. By combining hands-on manipulation with visual feedback, it provides a scaffolded learning approach for students at different stages of their educational journey.
The current BCU mental health and wellbeing service requires a lot of steps which can discourage students from reuqesting assistance.
My Mind simplifies this process and allows staff to easily manage their appointments and give the efficient support that both the university and students need.
The cuts from BCU towards the student affairs department will directly affect the current system and make it harder for students to get support.
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InstitutionBirmingham City UniversityQualificationBachelor of Science with Honours in Computer ScienceGrade2:1 (66.5%)SubmittedMay 2017Products CreatediOS App View project on Gitea
A local naturalist wishes to log nature sightings during walks. The original project looks at developing a windows application that connects to an online database which will allow further deveopment of the project to allow other users to be able to view other peoples sightings. A future project would create a mobile application vserion of the project which will utilise mobile data on devices.
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InstitutionCoundon CourtQualificationA Level ComputingGradeD (47%)SubmittedApril 2013Products CreatedMicrosoft Windows Application View project on Gitea
The aim is to create a mobile version of Task Master, an online application that allowed businesses to create and manage projects and tasks. Task Master was originally created at BrumHack 5.0 and came 3rd in the competition. Users will be able to create, update and track tasks within a specified project. Users will also be able to delegate tasks to other users on the apps database
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InstitutionBirmingham City UniversityQualificationBachelor of Science with Honours in Computer ScienceGradePass (58%)SubmittedMay 2017Products CreatediOS App View project on Gitea
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