About Me

Career Goals:

I love going into "the zone" and focusing on the modelling/design/problem solving task I am working on. Completing such a task gives me a sense of achievement.

As such I am enrolled in a Graduate Diploma of Science in Applied Maths at the University of Queensland.

 

Biography:

Born 7th, September, 1990; in primary school I won awards in maths competitions. My primary school gave out awards on graduation night, and they created a new award just for me, the maths award.

In high school I did quite well, gaining an Overall Position of 2, an A on the Queensland Core Skills Test, and head of class in chemistry.

I attended 5 full-time semesters at Griffith-Uni, where I studied Bachelor of Electronic and Computer Engineering / Bachelor of Science (Applied Maths). Although my grades were excellent, I was forced to withdraw due to health problems.

In the next few years I worked a few different jobs that I was not well suited to and that exacerbated my health problems.

Since then I have completed a Bachelor of Mathematics at the University of Queensland and have been working as a courier for Menulog since November 2021. My health problems have improved dramatically. 

In semester 2, 2022 I completed three subjects towards a Graduate Diploma in Applied Mathematics.

 

Work Experience:

June 2024 - Abbey Medieval Festival - Volunteer

3 weeks part-time, worked on setup, admissions and packdown

April 2024 - FOSS Programmer

0A.D is a free and open source software game development project. The game engine is called Pyrogenesis. Pyrogenesis' scenario editor is called Atlas. Atlas is written in C++ with wxWidgets. I added a button to Atlas that allows the user to preview actors (units, buildings, etc.) in either an orthogonal or a perspective camera mode. PS I don't think this patch is going to be green lit.

September 2023 - Present: Uber
Taxi Driving
Skills: Practicing Safe Driving, Customer Service

November 2021 to September 2023: Menulog
Courier
Skills: Practicing Safe Driving

2008 to 2017 (occasional) - Unpaid Freelance Student Tutoring

2015 to Present (occasional): USC Honey Lab
Unpaid Field Assistant
Skills: Collecting nectar samples from Leptospermum trees for analysis with regard to Bioactive Manuka Honey.

November 2011 to April 2012: Asphar Survey, Port Headland, WA
Survey Assistant
Skills: Physical Endurance; 4WD proficiency; Use of GPS equipment; Performing Level Runs; JavaScript Programming (Dynamic Segmentation for Georeferencing of Geocentric Data); Recording Meetings; Data Entry.

August to November 2010: Bella Venezia, Authentic Italian, Mooloolaba, QLD
Delivery Driver
Skills: Food delivery; Place Setting; Cleaning; Cash Handling; Customer Service; Teamwork

August to November 2009: Dominoes Pizza, Sunnybank, QLD
Delivery Driver
Skills: Pizza delivery; Food preparation; Cold storage; Dishwashing; Cash handling; Customer service; Teamwork

Semester 1, 2010: Griffith University, QLD
Electronic Engineering Lab Demonstrator
Skills: Instructed students on the assembly of an in-car FM radio transmitter used to play songs from an IPod through a car sound-system.

9 August 2009: Griffith University, Open Day, QLD
Student Ambasador
Skills: Engineering department display setup (including robots and a wind-turbine); Promotion of the Electronic and Computer Engineering program.

Semester 1, 2009: Griffith University Residential Colleges, QLD
Volunteer Academic Advisor
Skills: Assisted students with difficult concepts in Maths, Physics and Computer Engineering.

October 2009: Queensland Multicultural Festival, Roma Street Parkland, QLD
Volunteer
Skills: Display and stall setup; Load/unload supplies; Asked passers-by to complete a survey; Communication; Data recording.

June 2007 and September 2008: Faculty of Science, Health and Education, USC, QLD
Unpaid Field Assistant
Skills: Collecting and storing lake water samples and beach flow samples on Fraser island.
(contact Dr Peter Brooks, 07 5430 2828)

 

Education and Qualifications:

Bachelor of Maths
University of Queensland, Completed 3 year degree.

Bachelor of Advanced Science with Honours (Maths)
University of Queensland, Completed 7 part-time semesters

Bachelor of Electronic and Computer Engineering / Bachelor of Science (Applied Maths)
Griffith University, Completed 5 full-time semesters

Inaugural member of Griffith Honours College
Leadership training and networking events

Mountain Creek State High School (Year 12, Graduated 2007, Overall-Position 2)
English, Chemistry (dux), Physics, Maths B, Maths C, Graphics (design and drafting)

 

Hobbies and Interests


Outdoor Activities
Climbing Mt Coolum, biking, fishing, hunting, medieval festivals, building catapults.

Online Learning
Watching YouTube clips ranging from light-hearted educational channels like SciShow, to serious lecture series on Computer Science, reading papers and textbooks.

Logic Games
Playing games that require the application of logic such as Minesweeper, FreeCell, Sudoku.

Et Cetera
Building furniture, video games (Age of Empires, Diablo, Halo), Experimenting with game design using Small Fast MultiMedia Library, board games, and barbecues with friends

 See my blog.

 

Book Collection:

 A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups - Springer

Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Erwin Kreyszig - Ninth Edition

Analysis of Ordinary Differential Equations, The University of Queensland

Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, The University of Queensland

A Portable Introduction to Data Analysis - Michael Bulmer - Fifth Edition

Applied Numerical Analysis Using MATLAB - Pearson - Second Edition

(Arduino) Starter Kit Specification, - Epalsite Electronics 

Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus - Allyn J. Washington - Eighth Edition

Beej's Guide to C Programming - Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall

Calculus Third Edition - Spivac 

Calculus and Linear Algebra II, The University of Queensland

C for Yourself - Oxford 

C Interfaces and Implementations - David R. Hanson (a good example of how C is actually used)

Chemistry, An Introduction to General, Organic and Biological Chemistry - Timberlake - Eighth Edition

Code Complete - Microsoft Press - Second Edition

Complex Variables and Applications - Churchill - Eighth Edition

Computer Organisation and Architecture, Designing for Performance - Stallings Eighth Edition

Control Systems Engineering - Nise - Sixth Edition

CUDA by Example - NVidia 

Devalopment and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games I & II - Nerds for Nerd Publishing

Digital Fundamentals - Floyd - Ninth Edition

Discrete Mathematics II: Theory and Applications - The University of Queensland

Discrete Mathematics with Applications - Susanna S. Epp - Fourth Edition 

Easy Thai - Jintana Rattanakhemakorn - Tuttle Publishing - 2015

Electronic Communication Systems - Blake - Second Edition 

Elements of Tensor Calculus - A. Lichnerowicz, J. W. Leech, and D. J. Newman

Essential Algorithms, A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms - Wiley

Essential Skills for Science and Technology - Oxford

Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets - Van Der Linde

FPGA Programming for Beginners - Frank Bruno - 2021

Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics - Pearson - Sixth Edition 

Game Engine Architecture - Jason Gregory - A.K. Peters / CRC Press

Game Programming Patterns - Bob Nystrom 

GLSL Essentials - Jacobo Rodriguez - Packt Publishing

How To Think Like A Mathematician - Kevin Houston 

Inside the Metal Detector - Third Edition - Carl Moreland - Geotech Press

Introduction to the Foundations of Applied Mathematics - Springer - 2009

Linux Kernel Development - Robert Love

Microelectronic Circuits - Sedra/Smith - Fifth Edition

Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Michael Nielsen 

Numerical Analysis - Timothy Sauer - Second Edition

Object Oriented Programming in C++ - Lafore - Fourth Edition 

Patterns in C - Adam Thornhill - Lean Piblishing

QBIO7001 Handbook -  Jan Engelstaedter & Andrew Letten

    (R, Python, Advanced Computer Skills with a focus on data)

R for Data Science - Hadley Wickham & Garret Grolemund

Relativity, the Special and General Theory - Albert Einstein 

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey

SFML Blueprints - Maxime Barbier - Packt Publishing 

SFML Game Development - Packt Publishing

Technology and Society - Cambridge

The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software and Networking, An Information Technology Approach - Wiley

The Joy of Sets - Springer

Theory and Practice in Science - Griffith University - Eighth Edition

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietsche

Understanding Bioinformatics - Marketa Zvelebil, Jeremy O. Baum

Using the GNU Compiler Collection 14.2.0 - Richard M Stallman, Et Al (the section on extensions to the C language family)

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