I am committed, courteous and polite with a logical and organised approach to everything that I undertake. Being numerate and literate I am able to follow instruction, both written and verbal. I enjoy learning new skills, am flexible and self-motivated with the ability to listen and understand different points of view. My interests include electronics, computer programming, systems administration, hardware design and implementation.

I have built a variety of test equipment and projects, including a 300 baud modem with autodialler and an RTTY demodulator.

My computing experience has included writing an accounts suite and homeopathic remedy database.  I've built several personal computer systems and have fixed hardware and software problems, as well as maintaining my own network of more than 13 PCs, all running versions of Linux and Windows XP. I've recently developed an interest in embedded systems and have ported several applications to the Sharp Zaurus PDA device.

Education:

1979 - 1984:  Ilfracombe Community College

1984 - 1985: North Devon Microcentre/ITec, Barnstaple.

Qualifications:

'O' Level: Electronics, English Language, English Literature, Computer Studies

City & Guilds: 726 Electronics, 746 Business studies, word processing, programming

City & Guilds 726 and 746.

1985: Work placement - Lambda-Coutant Electronics, Ilfracombe. Work placement at Beran Instruments, Barnstaple.

Work experience in  publishing and residential care.

Additional Information:

Familiar with the following systems:

Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
BBC Microcomputer (model B)
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Commodore 64
IBM PC/XT
IBM PC/AT (to the present day)
Sun SPARCserver (4/330M)
Televideo 912 (a terminal - did hardware work on this)
Sharp Zaurus SL-C860
HP iPAQ hx4700

BBC BASIC
6502 assembly language
68000 assembly language
Z80 assembly language
PASCAL on the BBC Microcomputer
DBase-II programming language

Bash shell scripting
Perl
C

I have installed wired and wireless networks using a variety of networking technology including serial PPP links, Ethernet (several types) and wireless (802.11b and 802.11g).

I've done some web design and currently run a webserver on my intranet, as well as making content publicly available (Sharp Zaurus apps (http://brooknet.no-ip.com/~lex/public/zaurus/), Main website (http://brooknet.no-ip.com)).