Currently, I am employed at the Ministry of Justice as a Junior Software Developer on the Crime Apply and Review team, I initally joined the Ministry of Justice as a Digital Support Officer in the Digital Support team in May 2022.
Crime Apply is a service that allows Legal Aid Providers to make Criminal Legal Aid Applications on behalf of their clients.
Crime Review is a service that allows Legal Aid Agency Crime Caseworkers to review Criminal Legal Aid Applications before passing them into the Means Assessment Administration Tool, otherwise known as MAAT. MAAT is a web application used by caseworkers to process legal aid applications for criminal cases.
Caseworkers can also return Criminal Legal Aid Applications back to the Legal Aid Providers if they feel that further amendments are required.
Crime Apply and Review is a Ruby on Rails application hosted on Cloud Platform.
My earlist memory of video gaming was when my mum and dad bought my sisters and I, our first video games console the Nintendo 64, when I was around 4 years old.
My sisters and I would spend countless hours playing: Super Mario, Super Smash Bros and our favourite family competitve game Super Mario Kart đ
I remember being completely hooked and thinking that I wanted to make video games for a living đ
My passion for programming and web design began when mum and dad bought our first home computer when I was around 7 years old.
The first programming language I came across was CSS and HTML, I would visit webpages such as: AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Space Jam, Goosebumps in Internet Explorer and go into View > Source and copy, paste and modify the original source code of the web pages I visited -
I remember this instantly blew my mind!
whilst I didn't realise how this was remotely possible and what most of actual code meant and what it did, at the time it annoyed my sisters who thought I had "downloaded some kind of virus" onto the computer đ
I also continued my passion for video gaming on our home computer. I would spend countless hours playing video games such as: Atomic Bomberman, Crazy Taxi, Doom, Midtown Madness, Minesweeper, Road Rash and Pinball Space Cadet -
I was completely hooked to say the least!
This also annoyed my sisters as they felt that I was on the computer too much, and they felt that we should only be using the computer for school homework and learning through Microsoft Encarta which consisted of numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework toolsđ
My mum and dad then bought me an Xbox for my 9th birthday. I remember I got instantly hooked on playing video games such as: Burnout, Dead or Alive, Fifa, Halo, Project Gotham Racing, Forza Motorsport and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
This blew my mind and I couldn't believe the level of detail and graphics these games had at the time!đ˛
My love of gaming and programming continued into high school where I learned about programming frameworks and languages such as: ASP.Net, C#, CSS, DotNet, HTML, Windows Forms and Visual Basic -
I couldn't believe the endless possibilities they were to create any sort of application that came to my mind!đ˛
Having the freedom and possibility to create any sort of application that popped into my head. It was like a game, the choices and possibilities were endless. It was fun and that was all that mattered back then.
I continued to establish and further develop my programming skills and knowledge throughout college in the Computing Software Development Course, I learned about developing websites, object-oriented analysis, object-oriented programming, relational databases, data structures,
mobile application development, software design and development cycles etc. In addition, I also further developed and learned new programming frameworks and new programming languages such as: ASP.Net, C#, C++, DotNet, Java, Javascript, SQL, Visual Basic, XML.
After completing my Computing Software Development course at college, I was conflicted and unsure what degree I wanted to pursue at university. Ultimately, I fell away from programming and fell deeper into video games. Halo, Forza Motorport and Fifa series, to be more precise. This kickstarted a dream of designing and creating video games. A dream I carried with me as a young boy until I pursued it as an adult, at university.
I studied Computer Games Development from 2017-2022. During this time, I learned about the use of game engines such as: Unity and Unreal Engine to develop games, produce games for the web using HTML, Javascript and the Phaser game engine. I also focused on areas such as object-oriented programming techniques, development of mobile games, modelling and animation for games, games design, creating and using game assests and software development cycles.
I graduated with a
First Class BSc(Hons) Degree, and I then quickly fell back on my roots of software development and gained employment within the industry - Something, something, don't mix hobbies with workđ
In my free time, I like to focus on increasing my knowledge of programming. I am currently developing my programming skils using Python and Ruby. In addition, I now have the creative freedom of developing games in my spare time, whilst also getting my problem solving and programming fix at work.
If you would like to see some of my work, please head over to my
portfolio section.
If you would like to get in touch with me, please head over to the
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