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I'm Tom

Machinist to coder.

  • I'm a graduate with 10 years of work experience
  • I show dedication to everything I undertake
  • I'm personable and have great working relationships
  • I'm adaptable - I am happy to be flexible and I welcome feedback
  • I'm a keen learner - I am excited by learning new skills and really engrain new learning
  • I'm responsible and prompt and have always had high levels of attendance
  • I enjoy a challenge and I love problem solving

Skills & Interests

Machinist & Fabricator

TIG welding, turning, milling, CNC operator & programmer. For the last 10 years I have gained a wealth of workshop experience and practical skills. Be. . . more

The poster from the West end Theatre production of Stranegr Things: The First Shadow.

Film & TV

I've watched most horror films available in the UK. I love Sci-fi, and really appreciate hard sci-fi. Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse are persona. . . more

A still image from the openeing of the 1995 Ghost In the Shell film.

Books

Sci-fi and Fantasy, Sanderson, Rothfuss, P.F. Hamilton and Pierce Brown. The world building of Pandora's Star by P.F. Hamilton is unmatched. Sanderso. . . more

A stack books from the Red Rising series

Board Games

I have a core group of friend with whome I play board games with regularly. One of which has an encyclopedic knowledge of them, and who's colleciton . . . more

A photo of one of my weekend board game sessions, featuring Twilight Imperium

Coding Journey

Udemy

When deciding to change career paths, I chose to complete the highly rated course titled 'The Complete Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp' hosted by Angela Yu. Keen to learn a range of skills that would open up web development oportunities, I built confidence with the course and feel that it has helped to prepare me to join the insustry at a graduate level.


This course was run by Dr. Angela Yu from The App Brewery. Each chapter of learning ended in a capstone project which challenged you to put everything you had learned into practice. Examples of these projects can been seen here, under "Sample Projects".


Course contents

This course covered:

  • HTML
  • CSS
    • Flexbox
    • Grid
    • Bootstrap
  • Javascript ES6
  • DOM
  • jQuery
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Postman
  • EJS
  • Git
  • Github
  • Version control
  • API
  • Databases
    • SQL vs NoSQL
    • PostgreSQL
  • Authentication & Security
  • React.js