Listen, explore, investigate, learn, practise…

“As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.”
– Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

University

I was at Imperial College in London, studying Information Systems Engineering – a course taught jointly by the Department of Computing and the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.

I graduated from Imperial in July 2004 with a First Class Honours degree.

The course covered a wide range of material, including circuit analysis, communications systems, feedback control systems, digital electronics, software design (e.g. UML), programming (Turing, Haskell, C, Java), operating systems, computer architecture and compilers. Non-technical options are also of importance – I have completed the Management, Managerial Economics, Project Management, Introduction to Operational Research and Finance & Financial Management courses.
Results

The following are end-of-year averages, including exams, coursework and projects.

• 1st Year: 74% (First)
• 2nd Year: 78.8% (First)
• 3rd Year: 84.9% (First – Top Student in Year 3)
• 4th Year: 81.1% (First – Top Student in Year 4 and across the degree)

My projects

icISE – 1st Year Group Project
- Design and software implementation of a microcode-level architecture simulator
- Project undertaken with: Rob Dimond, Jonathan Mathai and Oliver Pell
- Supervisor: Dr Stuart Cox
- PRIZE WINNER – top 1st Year Group Project!

SURPRISE – 2nd Year Group Project
- SURveys and PREsentations in Information Systems Engineering
- Our theme: Software for NASA in 2050 – an impossible mission?
- Project undertaken with: Rob Dimond and Jonathan Mathai
- Supervisor: Dr Tom Clarke
- PRIZE WINNER – top 2nd Year Group Project!

3rd Year Group Project
- Robot Explorers – a distributed simulation using Java RMI technology
- Project undertaken with 40 other MEng ISE students
- Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Pitt

3rd Year Communications Systems Coursework
- Implementation of a digital PCM communications system in C++
- Project undertaken with: Jonathan Mathai and Oliver Pell
- Supervisor: Dr Athanassios Manikas

Final Year Individual Project
- Policy-driven Middleware for Personal Area Networks
- Supervisor: Dr Naranker Dulay
- Project Mark: 83%

My course choices

The following were my course choices for the 4th (and final) year of my degree!

Compulsory	Technical Options	Non-Technical Options
	Software Engineering: Environments	Introduction to Operational Research
	Advanced Databases	Finance & Financial Management
	Intelligent Data & Probabilistic Inference
	Synthesis of Digital Architectures
	Management of Telecoms Networks and Services
	Network Security

My Secondary School

I spent 7 years (1992 to 1999) at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet, where I obtained 8 A* and 2 A grades at GCSE, and 4 A grades at A Level in the following subjects:

* Mathematics (Pure, Mechanics & Statistics)
* Physics
* Economics
* German

Ryde College

I attended Northwood Computer Tutorial Centre (now Ryde College) between 1990 and 1992, where I completed a GCSE in Computing at the age of 10 and an A-Level in Computer Science at the age of 11.