Louise Champ CV

Last updated: 17/07/17

Conscientious self-starting mature student at King's College London with an interest in Linux and FOSS seeking a development graduate or internship role where I can utilise my communicative, problem solving, and team working skills honed by my previous work experience.

Education

UCAS Points: 420

2013 - 2017

King's College London - MSci Computer Science

Classification: First Class Honours

Additional activates:

• Student rep representing MSci programme cohort
• Selection for and recipient of King's Leadership & Professional Skills Award

Specialisations (third and fourth years):

• Information Security:
• Cryptography and Information Security (69%)
• Security Engineering (90%)
• Network Security (87%)
• Computer Forensics & Cybercrime (84%)
• Software Engineering:
• Software Architecture and Design (74%)
• Software Measurement & Testing (67%)
• Software Engineering of Internet Applications (84%)
• Networking:
• Telecommunication Networks (38%)
• Internet Systems (86%)
• Algorithms:
• Optimisation Methods (71%)
• Parallel & Distributed Algorithms (53%)
• Theory:
• Computational Models (78%)

Dissertations:

• Wireless network manager for OpenBSD (83%)
• Common Lisp implementation in Java 8 (75%)

Software Group Projects (second year):

• Chat program in Java (using no external libraries or APIs)
• Data visualisation Android app, "Compair"
• Street art tour guide Android app, "Dulwich Outdoor Gallery"

2011 - 2013

Carshalton College - BTEC Extended Diploma

• IT - Software Development (3 x Distinction*)

1997 - 2002

Overton Grange School - GCSEs

• Maths (B)
• English (B, B)
• Science (B, B)
• History (B)
• Art (C)
• German (C)
• RE (A* half award)

Skills

• Programming:
  • Proficiency with C and Unix systems programming after working on third year major project.
  • Proficiency with Java and experience of producing both desktop applications using Swing, and Android apps, in University projects.
  • Proficiency with HTML and CSS after working on numerous personal websites since the age of 11.
  • Also lightly experienced with Ruby, Python, and C++.
• Using Unix-like operating systems: Full time Ubuntu user on my laptops, in addition to the VPS that hosts my personal website. Also experience with OpenBSD after working on third year major project.
• Communication: Worked with Asda customers to satisfy requests about product availability and vegan/allergen concerns, and assisted with complaints. In a separated job also provided telephone customer service to corporate and high-worth clients. Also presented Dulwich Outdoor Gallery app as a presentation and product demonstration to Credit Suisse delegation at their Canary Wharf office.
• Teamwork and leadership: Was class representative in my BTEC course. The responsibilities for this included attendance at committee meetings, providing class representation in meeting with OFSTED, and organising class events. In my final group project at University, I also liaised between my group and the real-life client assigned to us and facilitated the flow of updates on our work and her feedback and requested changes.
• Agile development: Studied in various University modules. Used as a development methodology in my group projects, and in my third year major project.
• Version control and Git: Was used in all group projects to manage and consolidate the work produced by all team members. Also used in my third year major project to back up and track the progress of my work throughout the year.
• Problem solving: Devising solutions to wireless network daemon's inability to directly access user's X Window session and direct user's web browser to wifi login page, fulfilling full project requirements. Also bug fixing Compair app for Android to prevent it from changing orientation while downloading and processing data from the World Bank API.
• Time management: Managing workload of dissertation coding, and report writing, and studying for exams in third year, achieving very good results.

Achievements

• Credit Suisse Prize finalist, was invited to present Dulwich Outdoor Gallery app to a delegation of their technology team at their Canary Wharf location.
• Received best student award in both years of BTEC course; In first year this included a then-newly released iPad 3.

Work History

2012 - 2014

Asda - Instore Bakery Assistant

• Role involved merchandising freshly baked goods and assisting customers with queries and complaints. This role required a lot of time management and planning skills to ensure that brought in goods (which required adequate defrosting) and freshly baked goods were merchandised to ensure that merchandise was available to purchase on the store shelves as quickly as possible each day. I also honed my team working and leadership skills, as I was always aware of the merchandise that was still outstanding from the store shelves, and always offered or requested assistance when certain sections required more attention than others.

2010 - 2011

• Was seeking entry level employment in IT support at this time; I also got a Microsoft desktop support technician certification in this period to boost my CV. As I was unsuccessful, I went back to college to pursue a development career.

2008 - 2009

Blue Ocean Contact Centres - Reservation Co-ordinator

• Role involved booking car rides for corporate and high-worth clients based in the USA, and querying the status of their pick-up with the local dispatch that was handling the ride. As a customer service role, this helped me to hone my persuasion and negotiation skills and taught me how to present myself with confidence when speaking to clients over the phone.

2007

Barclays Bank - Payment Processor

• Role involving processing cheque payments received from customers made to the collections department. The current account number each cheque paid towards was verified, and then cashed in batches. This role required numeracy skills as the monetary total for each batch had to be verified twice to ensure that Barclay’s accounting was correct when the cheques were debited.

2006

Thus - Telephone Provisioning Agent

• Role was based in the provisioning team of telco that sold telephone lines and services provided by BT Openreach. My role was to input services a client had purchased onto the firm’s billing system once the services had been activated by BT Openreach.

2005

Bishopsford Community School - IT Technician Intern

• Role consisted of assisting the main IT support team in maintenance of the desktops used by pupils and the laptops issued to teaching members of staff. I was in charge of a programme of reimaging and adding additional RAM to all laptops and for the start of the new school year.

Volunteering

2016

Tesco Neighbourhood Food Collection - Donation Facilitator

• Participated in annual Christmas drive for food bank donations for the Trussell Trust and FareShare. Approached shoppers with requests for donations, and served as a point at which donations could be provided.

2011

Cancer Research UK - Shop Assistant

• Assisted the manager in the cleaning and presentation of the shop front, and cycling out items that had been merchandised for a couple of weeks with new items. I also cleaned and prepared clothes and other items to go on sale. When there wasn't a volunteer that had come in to specifically on the till, I covered this responsibility.

Interests

• In my spare time, I like to keep up with politics and current affairs. I am also a season ticket holder for my local non-league football team.