Recourse Audit

Locations -

For software engineering you do not need to leave the house often if you have a computer as everything is software based its easy to simply email over to my employeer.
Recently i have learned how to drive also, so getting to places within cambridge will be easy to me, the building that i aspire to work at (world pay) is at the science park in cambridge and will only require a short drive to get to.

Skills -
I have a large amount of skills in media that include video and photo editing in adobe programs such as premiere, after effects and photoshop. i also have a set of software engineering skills in python with databases and other basic skills that i wish to grow upon in university.

Cons -
I have a lot to learn in the field of software currently, that will be resolved while i am studying at university and getting ready to leave. my father is also a software engineer and has been for the last 25 years and he is very good at what he does. i have him available for any questions i have with software and so im sure i will learn things very quickly and pick them up as i work on them. another thing i need to work on is time management, i often find myself getting distracted from things while i work on them if i find it boring or repetitive so i need to learn to have a much greater work ethic.

     Recourses -
A high spec computer: cost - around £500, can be between £300 and £2000 depending on what you want.
My home pc is very powerful with 12GB of ram and a high speed processor and graphics card, this makes it quick and easy for me to test my code and anything i create that is media related for example games or code with visual elements.

     A raspberry pie software kit - These are around £30 for the Mk2 and £15 for the Mk1
A raspberry pie is a starting hardware module that has different features including motors, speakers and other elements that is designed to be manipulated with software that i can use freely to practice my coding.

     Multiple computers on a network - Costs - same as the first, however it doesn't have to be as powerful as you will be coding on the first one and this can be just used as a database to access.

Having multiple computers in a network is handy for any software practice as it means i can practice using a database to span multiple computers that i would need to be able to do if i wanted to go into a full time career in programming as most software used in the real world is based on databases and knowing how to access them remotely is very important.


Contacts -

My father, a highly skilled long time software engineer.

Jon lister, a highly skilled software engineer, friends with my father and a long time family friend

Jon lindon, a freelance media recruiter, if i wanted to get into media related software development then he is who i could speak to. He is a family friend and has been for years.

Things that i still need

I lack some of the contacts i would need if i wanted to realistically go into the media industry. I can work on getting more contacts by talking to jon lindon, because he works in media recruiting i have a great source if i wanted to get more contacts.


It would be a lot better if when i was applying to job to have some work in a portfolio,  this will help build my software experience and help me learn new languages. evidence that i can show to an employer, this will help make a transition a lot smoother because most employers in software dont want someone that they have to train, they want someone who already has experience doing the job, be that in another job