Dave Parker

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Dave Parker

• Skills and experiences

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History

• Started programming from an early age
• Graduated this year from Salford University with
  22 in BSc Computer Science

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Programming Background

• C64 BASIC
• AMOS
• QBasic
• Visual Basic
• Pascal
• C and C
• C/C Windows Programming
• Java

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Visual Basic Skill

• Experience with Visual Basic 3.0 to 6.0
• Written DLLs in C to be called from VB
• Used Win32 API and call-back functions
• Developed ActiveX controls and DLLs
• BrainBench score of 4.6

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Additional computer skills

• Active Server Pages (VBScript)
• Internet Information Server
• MS Office
• Basic networking
• Building / fixing PCs

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Transferable Skills

• Problem solving, research and optimisation
  Media Player visualization
• Adaptable use of several different languages
  simultaneously
• Organisation / Planning use of Gantt charts

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Previous Projects
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Work Placement Mancos

• Project involved updating existing server-side
  software written in C with embedded SQL
• The primary task was to add XML support to
  various modules

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Final Year Project Media Player

• Developed in Visual C with MFC
• Plays video and audio files using DirectShow
• Visualization plug-in written in C using Win32
  API and GDI
• Multithreaded

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Firestorm

• 3D engine developed in C with DirectGraphics
• Easy to use object oriented framework

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PhileSplitter

• File splitting and assembling utility
• Developed using Visual Basic and C
• Sold over the Internet as shareware