My 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)
  
• ​University Work Placement Reports at GEC (1991 and 1992)
  
• Mechanical Engineering Degree Final Year Exam Papers in: Maths, Materials Science, Robotics, Computer-Aided Design, Electrical Engineering, Control for Manufacture, Systems Engineering and Computer-Aided Manufacture​ (1993)
  
• Degree Final Year Project Report (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)
  
• Presentation Skills Competition - Newspaper Wizard Article (1993)
  
• ​GEC Graduate Trainee Newsletter Article (1994)
  
• ​Today Newspaper Budget Article (1994)
  

My Present
Information Technology Security

• ​Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Certificate (1997)
  
• Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer (Hardware) Certificate (1999)
• ​Magazine Articles Published: Windows Deployment and Roll-out the Barrel (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 (Thales) 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)
  

My Future
Volunteering

• Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) Newspaper Article (2017)
• International Trauma Care Conference Presenting Certificate and Paraphernalia (2018)
  
• NHS / University Research Program (ROWTATE) - Helping Trauma Survivors Return 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 and BrainLine and Headway (2020)​

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 :-)