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Travel

After attending Infant school in Long Buckby, nr Northampton we moved to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. A volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just below the equator. It is only 7 miles by 5 and home to around 1000 inhabitants. A whole new experience going to a new country so different to England. The temperature could be around 90 - 100 degrees most days. There was a very relaxed lifestyle and with extremely hot weather meant frequent visits to the beach.

A picture of Green Mountain taken from Sisters peak is shown above and the village of Two Boats where I lived for five years. The photo opposite shows a view from the top of Green Mountain showing the lush vegetation against the volcanic land where NASA tested their lunar lander. I have also travelled to Canada and Tenerife, USA, France, Belgium, Costa Del Sol - Spain, Gibralter and South Africa.

Education

The Nottingham Trent University: 1996-2000 Earned a 2:1 in BSc (Hons) Computing Studies. As part of my sandwich course, I completed an 11 month Industrial Placement at Lucent Technologies in Malmesbury, near Swindon. The title for my dissertation was the 'Design & Evaluation of an Accessible Multimedia Networking Application for the UK Voluntary Sector', primarily a research topic, although included building a website for TANC, a voluntary organisation based in Nottingham. See the website at: http://www.tanc.co.uk. Modules studied included Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analysis & Design, Distributed Systems, Formal Methods, Functional Programming, HCI, IT Management, Software Quality and many more!

Peter Symonds College, Winchester: 1994-1996 After completing my GCSE's at The Henry Beaufort school in Winchester, I decided to continue my education at Peter Symonds College where I completed A-Levels in Computing, Geography and Graphical Communication. Additionally I completed a IT GNVQ. The same college where comedian Jack Dee studied!

Henry Beaufort School, Winchester: 1989-1994

Two Boats School, Ascension Island: 1984-1989

Resume

View my latest Curriculum Vitae, updated on 22/07/98.

Current Work

Ongoing work includes maintaining the Official Salt Tank website at http://www.salttank.co.uk in my spare time. Some web design consultancy work for Volition Total Solutions is also keeping me busy before I start my full time job at Lucent Technologies, August 2000.

Sport I enjoy various sports, particularly Mountain Biking, Badminton and Football. I support Southampton FC and followed the Saints to the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in 1992, which we unfortunately lost 3-2 to Nottingham Forest despite a great comeback.

Music

I attended the Dance day at the Essential Music Festival in 1997, where I saw among others The Chemical Brothers, Spooky, The Propellerheads and The Aloof. Enjoyed the mayhem of the Big Beat Boutique. Among the bands I have seen are, Leftfield, Daft Punk, Tangerine Dream, Salt Tank, Massive Attack, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Lightening Seeds. Other great acts are Chicane, Groove Armada, David Holmes, Faithless, Gus Gus, Beth Orton, 4 Hero, St Germain and The Beatles.

I attended Creamfields in Winchester in May 98, the first of this years dance festivals where I saw an excellent DJ set from the Chemical Brothers. I'am also into acid jazz such as D*Note, Uriel, The Ballistic Brothers, Black Jazz Chronicles, Black Science Orchestra, and DJ Food. Great record labels are Ninja Tune, Mo Wax, and Internal Bass. I like various types of music depending on what mood I'am in, one of my favourite bands is Salt Tank who make trance and chill out melodic dance music. I run the Official Salt Tank website which resides here http://www.salttank.co.uk

My Top Ten Favourite Albums Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Circa) Leftfield - Leftism (Hard Hands) Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Junior Boys Own) Salt Tank - Science and Nature (Internal) The Chemical Brothers - Surrender (Virgin) David Holmes - Lets Get Killed (Go! Beat) Air - Moon Safari (Source) Super Discount (Solid) 4 Hero - Two Pages (Talkin Load) Future Sound Of London - Accelerator (Virgin)

My Top Ten Favourite Tracks Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Circa) The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Ginua (Jumpin & Pumpin) Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch 2 (Warp) Salt Tank - Eugina (Internal) Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (Expanded Music) The Ballistic Brothers - A Love Supreme (Soundboy) 808 State - Pacific (ZTT Records) Congress - 40 Miles The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (Hut) Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In America (Warner)

Films/TV

My favourite films are The Star Wars Trilogy, The Italian Job, Forest Gump, Bad Boys, Thomas Crown Affair, The Matrix, and Cocktail. TV programmes that I enjoy are The Simpsons, Friends, Black Adder and various other comedies.

Food

I am diagnosed as having the coeliac condition, this means that I'am alergic to gluten which is a protein contained in wheat flour.

Links

Web Design Companies	Web Design Software	Web Resources
AKQA	Adobe	Builder
Akimbo Design	Allaire	DHTML Zone
Amaze	Macromedia	High Five Web Site Design
Deepend	Micorsoft	Jackob Neilsen's Alterbox
Digital Arts	Netscape	JavaScript.com
The Hub Communications	Real Networks	JavaScript Source
Motion Pixels		WebLint - HTML Validator
3EV		WebMonkey
Subnet		The World Wide Web Consortium
Tomato		The Web Standards Project
Fashion	Search Engines	Telecomications
BoxFresh	Altavista	Lucent Technologies
GAP	Google - No Ads	Pulver
GQ	Lycos
Paul Smith	Mamma
REISS	Open Directory Project - No Ads
	Top Click - No Ads
	Yahoo
Misc	Computing	Emulators
British Rail Timetable Planning	Computing	Emuforce
Gateway 2000	Computer Weekly	Impact Arcade Emulator
Kona Mountain Bikes	NTU Computing Department	MAME
The Nottingam Trent University		Nemu N64 Emulator
Peter Symonds College		UltraHLE N64 Emulator
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E-Mail

My contact e-mail is: chris@salttank.co.uk