My Distant Past

Education

• Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) (1986)
• General Certificate of Education (GCE) 'O' Level (1986)
  
• Youth Training Scheme (YTS) Certificate and Paraphernalia (1987)
  
• Engineering Industry Training Board (EITB) Certificate (1987)
  
• City and Guilds (C&G) Certificate (1987)
  
• Business and Technology Council (BTEC) Ordinary National Certificate (ONC) and Paraphernalia (1989)
  
• GEC Work Placement (University) Reports in 1991 and 1992
  
• University Final Year Project Report (1993)
  
• Engineering Degree Final Year Exam Papers: Maths, Materials Science, Robotics, Computer-Aided Design, Electrical Engineering, Control for Manufacture, Systems Engineering and Computer-Aided Manufacture​ (1993)
  
• Bachelor of Engineering Degree Certificate and Paraphernalia (1993)
  

Awards and Articles

• ​Awards for Outstanding University Project Work and Presenting (1993)
  
• ​Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Presenting Awards (1993)
  
• Newspaper Wizard Article on Presentation Skills Competition (1993)
  
• ​Graduate Trainee Newsletter Article at GEC (1994)
  
• ​Today Newspaper Comments on the UK Chancellor's Budget (1994)
  

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My Recent Past
Information Technology Security

• ​Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Certificate (1997)
  
• Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer (Hardware) Certificate (1999)
• ​Windows Deployment and Roll-out the Barrel Magazine Articles Published (2000)
  
• ​RealSecure Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Certificate (2002)
• British Computer Society (BCS) Membership Certificate (2005)
  
• ​PKI Training Certificates I Gave to Muppets (2006)
  
• Smart Card Management Systems (ActivIdentity / HIDGlobal) Certificate (2006)
  
• nCipher nShield Certified Systems Engineer (nCSE) Certificate (2006)
  
• Press Release when Joining Oxford Computer Group (2007)
  
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certificate (2015)
  
• PKI Training Certificate I Received from a Muppet (2018)
  

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My Present and Future
​Volunteering

• Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) Newspaper Article (2017)
  
• International Trauma Care Conference Presenting Certificate and Paraphernalia (2018)
  
• NHS / University Research (ROWTATE) Trauma Survivors Returning to Work (2019)
  
• Brain Trauma Patient Discharge Advice Note I Wrote for the NHS (2019)
  
• Beth Johnson Foundation Tech Buddy (2020)
  
• Trauma Case Study Participation with AfterTrauma, BrainLine, Headway and the Centre for Trauma Sciences (2020)
  
• Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC) Shop Warehouse Sorting and Tribute (2020)​
  
• During the pandemic I was unable to directly support people in my tech buddy role, so I devised other approaches to help people manage their passwords (2021)
  

​Quotations

• From what we get we can make a living, from what we give we can make a life           (Arthur Ashe)
  
• Volunteers don't get paid - not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless (Sherry Anderson)
  
• Altruism rocks (Me :-)