Christopher Beale

Concerned with all things software development related

United Kingdom

Past
  • Software Engineer at Keima
  • Programmer/Level Designer at Battlegrounds Mod
  • Lead Programmer/Owner at Kwigibo
  • Work experience placement at Rednock College
  • Writer at Techangel UK
  • Work experience placement at iTek
Education
  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
  • Rednock Sixth Form
Connections
24 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Christopher Beale’s Summary

Application developer interested in complex problem solving applications.

Christopher Beale’s Specialties:

Software development on the .NET Platform, including C# and C++, the Visual Studio environment, C/C++ development.


Christopher Beale’s Experience

  • Software Engineer

    Keima

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    June 2007January 2009 (1 year 8 months)

    Software development in .NET (C#/C++ CLR) for wireless network planning.

    Specific task include GIS applications, mapping vector and polygon data, polygon to raster conversion (including aliasing of data) and development of the Cadenza assembly plugin system.

  • Programmer/Level Designer

    Battlegrounds Mod

    (Computer Games industry)

    March 2004June 2008 (4 years 4 months)

    C++ programming for client/server modification of the Half-Life (GoldSRC) engine, feature addition, release management and distribution, advertising.

    Level development using the Valves Hammer 3D level creation tool, compilation and game engine specific map optimization.

  • Lead Programmer/Owner

    Kwigibo

    (Internet industry)

    March 2006June 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    Owner of a small business reselling VPS systems, website, email and SSH tunnel hosting.

    During this time I development the in-house billing system and server management software using the PHP language, allowing the entire server infrastructure to be managed from a single panel, including physical servers rented on to clients. This business grew to total four physical servers.

    Development of website for customers in PHP, from analysis of requirements, to implementation to reflective project analysis.

  • Work experience placement

    Rednock College

    (Computer Networking industry)

    July 2005September 2005 (3 months)

    Complete Installation of new Windows 2003 based network, upgrading existing Windows NT based infrastructure, active directory transfer and overall system security.

  • Writer

    Techangel UK

    (Online Media industry)

    February 2004December 2004 (11 months)

    Writing technical articles and reviews of hardware targeted at computer gaming/hardware enthusiasts.

  • Work experience placement

    iTek

    (Computer Hardware industry)

    April 2003April 2003 (1 month)

    Work experience placement removing sensitive data from bank computers and internal hardware servicing in preparation for resale.


Christopher Beale’s Education

  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

    Computation Chemistry , MSc Computing in the Physical Sciences , 20092010 (expected)

  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

    BSc , Computer Science , 20062009

    Activities and Societies:
    Treasurer and photographer for the Live Music Society, photographer for the newspaper and social magazine.
  • Rednock Sixth Form

    Computer Science, History, Physics 20042006


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Christopher Beale’s Interests:

live music photography, extreme sports photography, playing electric guitar


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