Name: Sebastian
Date of Birth: May 1984
Age: 22

Home Address:
The Coach House
Down Park
Turners Hill Road
Crawley Down
West Sussex
RH10 4HQ
ENGLAND

Email Contact: mrseb [at] mrseb.com
Website: http://www.mrseb.com

Higher Education:
University of Essex, October 2002-July 2005. BEng Computer Games & Internet Technology, first-class honours, IEE accredited.

A-Levels:
Computer Science AS & Chemistry AS (2000 – Aged 16)
Media Studies (2001 – Aged 17)
Double Award AVCE ICT & Photography AS (2002 – Aged 18)

GCSEs:
English, English Literature, Geography, Business Studies, Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Biology.

Previous Schools:
Greenfields School, Forest Row, East Sussex. May 1985-July 2001
Haywards Heath College, East Sussex. September 2000-July 2002

I have workable and professional knowledge in the following skills, subjects or areas:

Programming/Scripting/Query Languages:

C++, Java (and J2ME), PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, XML/XHTML/RDF, XSLT & CSS1/2, VB & VBA, ARM Assembler, Prolog, SQL.

Software Packages:

Visual Studio/.NET, Macromedia Studio FX (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash), ActiveState Komodo (Scripting language development), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Encore, Microsoft Office (Full Access, Excel & Word macro/form creation with VBA), Sage Line 50 & 100.

Operating Systems and Platforms:

GNU/Linux (RedHat, FC2, Slackware 9.1/10.0), Windows (all versions), Novell, Mobile Devices (J2ME/Symbian).

Artistic:

Complete skills to process either digital or film photography. 6 years experience with Photoshop and Quark DTP products.

Published Photographs & Articles
I have had a number of articles and photographs (http://photos.mrseb.com) published in recent years, including professional portrait photography work for the BBC in 2004. I have crafted professional modelling portfolios and photographed sporting events. Recently, I have photographed live music events and toured with bands as their official photographer. I have had work published in: East Grinstead Courier (www.courier.co.uk), University of Essex Students' Union Rabbit (www.essexstudent.com/main/student/studentmedia/news), Colchester Wyvern (www.essex.ac.uk/wyvern), BBC Antiques Roadshow Companion Book (www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/tv_and_radio/antiques_roadshow), The Riot – Midlands Gig Organisers (www.theriot.org.uk) and Numb Magazine (www.numbmagazine.net).

MrSeb.com Web Services & Photography (www.mrseb.com) – 2000 – present day
Currently self-employed as the owner of MrSeb.com Web Services (http://webservices.mrseb.com), a contract website and graphic-design company.

HHM (www.hhm.com) – August-September 2003
Website- and graphic-design, and ASP programming for HHM, one of the London’s largest web/graphic-design, marketing and PR companies.

G&G Food Supplies Ltd. (www.gandgvitamins.com / www.gandgcontract.com) – June-August 2003 & June-September 2004
Intranet design, with PHP scripting and mysql database integration to aid information flow within this large, multi-national vitamin and mineral food supplement manufacturer. I have also developed some standalone applications in VB and VC with Microsoft Jet and Sage Line 100 integration to help them manage new customers and customer surveys.

Mark Roberts Motion Control (www.mrmoco.com) – July-September 2002
Both hardware and software support: Website design, Perl and PHP scripting, and internal software and hardware support for a multi-national Oscar-winning camera-control company. My role encompassed both the software development and on-site support aspect of this company.

BIA Software (Formerly KeyMS) – November 2000
Perl scripting to merge a website form, a database and also email the results back to the website owner. This was my first paid, contract programming job, which then inspired me to launch my web services company.

• Programmed, launched and managed a successful online game for three years (www.p-universe.com), which has now been sold to a friend, and then again onto another individual. It was initially written in Perl and then ported over to PHP as a learning exercise. The game peaked in 2002 with several thousand players.

• Between the ages of 14 and 15 I wrote a networked MUD in Perl that ran solely on my school network – purely an exercise in learning about networking and also Perl. This became the game of choice on the school network instead of Doom 2 for a short period!

• I managed, upgraded the software and hardware and administered the school network between the ages of 14 and 17, which ran on a mix of Novell Netware and Windows NT 3.51 (with Windows 3.11, 95, 98 and 2000 workstations). The skills I obtained during this time enabled me to become the on-site software and hardware support engineer for two of my previous employers.

• In 1999, at the age of 15, I won a laptop as a prize for a competition open to all schools in the South East of England; the contest was to design a website about the year 3000. I designed the site in Macromedia Flash (the second website I had ever produced).

• In the past two years at university I have held the position of Member Representative and President of two societies at the University of Essex – The Multiplayer Games Society (MGS) and the Role Playing Games society. Both of these roles have required me to arrange and organise events for members of my societies. In June 2004, for the MGS, I helped organise a LAN party where over 100 people attended, for five days; five solid days of gaming!

• In the world of photography I have grown from doing AS-level photography at college to now taking photos professionally for the Antiques Roadshow, being a modelling photographer and having photos published in newspapers. I also have a website, http://photos.mrseb.co.uk that is receiving a larger number of hits each month.

• I have organised successful political campaigns, mainly focusing on the posters and newspaper artwork, for Students’ Union slates at the University of Essex; over two years, and three individual slates, I have had a 90% success rate with people I have represented.

• I am currently designing and creating a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon), written in Python (for cross-platform and mobile-device compatibility) that features a Natural Language fully-backtracking parser, which works with a subset of the English language. The skills I have required to parse text, grammar and XML have been invaluable.

• After three years of work with Java, and then discovering J2ME, I have developed small applications (mainly games) on primarily Symbian-based mobile devices.

• With a group of friends I developed a Java-based, multi-threaded and cluster-based meta search engine. I primarily worked on the data-retrieval functions of the engine, focusing on refining the regular expressions used to extract the data, and outputting the data in an XML stream so that the distributed Java master server could then process the data efficiently.

My hobbies and interests are fairly well distributed between the technical and artistic.

• Playing computer games
• Coding. Coding anything. Scripting, programming, compiling... I love it all.
• Photography
• ‘Photoshoping’, creating art from scratch or editing my own photos
• I generally love music as a medium; I also play guitar and piano
• Watching good films, and advertisements (I am strongly interested in how the editing and directing of a film can affect the viewer – thus why I did Media Studies)
• I have an interest in politics and the media and the interconnections between the two
• Eating good food

Dr John Foster – Lecturer at the University of Essex:
Email: jfoster [at] essex.ac.uk

Dr Richard Bartle – Lecturer at the University of Essex:
Email: richard [at] mud.co.uk

Assaff Rawner – Executive Director at Mark Roberts Motion Control:
Tel: 01342 334700
Email: assaff [at] mrmoco.com