Michael
Pipe
| LOCATION: BEDFORD
| PHONE: +44 7960219451
| EMAIL: PADDY@MICHAELPPIPE.CO.UK
| PREFERRED NAME: PADDY PIPE
Recent graduate of the University of Kent achieving a First-class classification in Computer Science with a year in Industry. I am looking for an interesting start to my career in IT, ideally in development with a company that is focused on the progression of its employees.
Experience
Infrastructure Engineer
Wates Group
August 2016 - August 2017
As part of my degree I completed a year in industry at Wates as an Infrastructure Engineer. My main focal point was Line of Business application support which entailed dealing with issues, changes and problem tickets raised within the ITSM tool. My role also consisted of other duties such as;
- Technical support on projects
- Problem management and Major Incident Reporting
- Process automation
- Development of an Office365 Exchange Admin Tool (see produced)
Government Funded Cyber Security Research Intern
The University of Kent
July 2015 - September 2015
During the summer of my first year at Uni I had an 8-week research internship where I looked into Threat Analysis in Self-Adaptive Authorisation Systems. This internship was completed as 2 weeks’ remote work where I had daily meetings with my project leader and then 6 weeks based at the University of Kent. The internship consisted of researching and reading papers relevant to the topic as well as creating a simulation for anomaly detection using data collected from an online game that emulated insider attacks on a system.
Education
The University of Kent
Computer Science with a Year in Industry BSc (First-class honours)
September 2014 - June 2018
| Module Name | Achieved Percentage |
|---|---|
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Web Development
This module covered HTML, CSS, php and JavaScript as well as AJAX and frameworks such as CodeIgniter and JQuery.
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85% |
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Programming Language: Application and Design
...
This module came in two halves. The first half covering multiple languages such as Java, OCaml and Haskel to show how different language types (OO/Functional/Combination) can be better suited to different applications. The second half describing the conceptualisation of programming languages from a design aspect, touching on lambda calculus and language rules.(see produced)
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83% |
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Internet of Things
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In this module we took an ARM based microcontroller and using C++ we utilised different sensors in order to collect data from real sources, uploading sensor results to a dedicated server. We were then tasked with producing a dashboard where we used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap and pre-provided APIs for data aggregation of multiple sensor readings.(see produced)
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83% |
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Database Systems
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Data modelling, Normalisation, SQL, Relational databases, Temporal databases, noSQL, Object-Relational databases and Inheritance
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83% |
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Intelligent Systems
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We studied different search algorithms such as iterative deepening, depth-first, depth-limited, uniform-cost, best-first and A* and how these can be used in puzzle solving and problem realisation. We also covered game theory and related topics such as the minimax theorem and alpha-beta pruning. Finally we looked at neural networks, training perceptron’s with learning rules and backpropagation.(see produced)
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78% |
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Final Year Project
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My final year project was to take the conventional forum style website, looking at websites such as Reddit, and to improve on the issues we felt were present. Working in a group of 5 we decided that we would improve on the social aspects of the site and try to improve the voting system so that the score which a post could get wasn’t incorrectly or unfairly judged. The final outcome of the project was a hybrid social network planned, developed, tested and improved throughout the year. We had two front ends, one web based and the other native Android, both backing onto the same SQL backend. The web front end was developed using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APS.NET and used C# for the backend. The Android application was Java using http requests to php SQL query scripts as an API. (see produced)
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75% |
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Functional and Concurrent Programming
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Fundamental concepts of functional and concurrent programming using Erlang. How evaluation operates, side-effect-free programming, communication and synchronisation. Using the inherently recursive style of functional programming languages to solve regular problems assessing through typical problems such as the dining philosophers.
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75% |
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Computer Security and Cryptography
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This module covered a number of cryptographic algorithms used by different ciphers and the weaknesses they included. We were tasked to target these weaknesses by decrypting multiple different cipher texts. We covered authentication, both symetric and asymetric as well as security concepts.
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70% |
Wootton Upper School
A-Levels
September 2011 - June 2014
| A-Level | Achieved Grade |
|---|---|
| Techology | A |
| ICT | B |
| Geography | C |
Produced
gopagr - Final Year Project
gopagr was our final year group project. It was a combination of a social media platform and traditional internet forum. It had both web and android application front end and was developed using a number of different technologies;
- C#
- ASP.NET
- MySQL
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Java
- PHP
We used an agile development methodology as this best suited the inconsistent availability of the team. Sprints were an average of 3 weeks long and fully regression tested via a mixture of functional and acceptance requirements.
totalTool - Exchange Admin Tool
During my time at Wates I dealt with a lot of Office365 Exchange issues, In order to make my role easier and repeat issues quicker to deal with, I wrote a number of PowerShell scripts. I then developed a small application/tool using a XAML front end, pasing the XAML via a XML parser in the PowerShell code. From this I integrated all of the scripts I had previously writted and produced a tool I was able to pass onto the Service Desk in order to reduce the volume of work passed to the 2nd and 3rd line teams.
CanterburyGardens - IoT Assessment
The CanterburyGardens dashboard was a group module assessment in my final year of Uni. We had been provided a basic REST API for microprocessor sensor data that we were then tasked with creating a dashboard for data aggregation. The dashboard could be created using any technology we wanted however we opted for HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, AJAX and JavaScript. We also combined the Google Maps API for visual representation of where sensors were placed and used FLOT which is a JavaScript plotting library that enabled us to produce graphs to visualise sensor information.
Dependancy Solver - PLAD Assessment
The dependency solver was another University module assessment where I had to build an application that would mimic a package manager but with the prerequisite that the current state of the installed packages was always 'legal'. The program needed to take 3 JSON inputs describing the current state, the available packages (repository) and the end state. The packages had a standard uninstall cost, no matter its original size and an install cost of the size of the package.
I wrote the dependency solver in Java, converting the JSON inputs into arrays and running iterative graph algorithms to compute the shortest number of instructions that turned the initial state into the final state, making sure that every intermediary state was also legal.
Triangular Navigation - IS Assessment
Given an integer grid populated by triangles, find the shortest path for any given problem from coordinate A to coordinate B. Furthermore, the shortest path must be made from straight line segments only, a path is described as ‘short’ based on the number of lines used rather than their length and they must never overlap with the interior of any triangle.
The solution had to be written in Java, so I used arrays to describe the graph and triangles and built the path via an ArrayList of vertex’s calculating the solution with a simple Iterative Deepening and Depth First algorithm. This way I was sure to get the shortest path possible and performance increase could be improved by modifying the way valid moves were calculated.
Skills
Web Development
OO-Programming
Other
Interests
