Christopher Beale

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

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Education

• Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
• Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
• Rednock Sixth Form

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

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 2007 — January 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 2004 — June 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 2006 — June 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 2005 — September 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 2004 — December 2004 (11 months)

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

• Work experience placement

  iTek

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2003 — April 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 , 2009 — 2010 (expected)

• Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

  BSc , Computer Science , 2006 — 2009

  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 2004 — 2006

Additional Information

Christopher Beale’s Websites:

• My Blog

Christopher Beale’s Interests:

live music photography, extreme sports photography, playing electric guitar

Christopher Beale’s Contact Settings

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