Nick Young's Resume (Last updated April 26th 2009)

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Dr Nick Young



Thatcham, Berkshire UK
www.nickbits.co.uk

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WORK EXPERIENCE:
DevZen, Developer, Tharcham, Berkshire
Website Developer using XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Drupal, WordPress, Moodle, etc. Also includes C/C++ programming, Computer build and repair.

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Newbury College, Lecturer, Monks Lane, Newbury (2003 - 2008)
Lecturer / Teacher in Computing and Engineering.

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University of Bath, Programmer, Claverton Down, Bath (2003 - 2003)
Development and documentation of an image and video viewer for Windows. Integrate with existing code.

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XiWave, Programmer, Bath (2001 - 2001)
* Development and documentation of an emergency video telemetry system for Windows. Work in a team to develop and test required application.

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University of Bath, Demonstrator, Claverton Down, Bath (2000 - 2002)
Open day lab demonstrator of Digital Image and Video Processing.

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University of Bath, Demonstrator, Claverton Down, Bath (1999 - 2001)
Laboratory demonstrator using Matlab.

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Newbury Electronics, PCB Production Operator, Faraday Road, Newbury, Berkshire (1993 - 1998)
CNC operator, goods in, electro-less plating, gold plating, HASL, black oxidising, rough cut, screen printing, developing & inspection, etc.

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EDUCATION:

  • PhD, Electronic and Communications Engineering, University of Bath (1999 - 2003)

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  • Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Post-Compulsory Education), Teacher Training, Newbury College (2005 - 2006)

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  • City & Guilds 7407 Stage II, Teacher Training, Newbury College (2005 - 2005)

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  • City & Guilds 7407 Stage I, Teacher Training, Newbury College (2004 - 2004)

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  • Master of Engineering, Electronic and Communications Engineering, University of Bath (1995 - 1999)

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  • National Diploma, Electronic and Communications Engineering, Newbury College (1993 - 1995)

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PUBLICATIONS:
N.Young, 'The Mega-ITX project', CustomPC Magazine, December 2005, pp. 118-121

N.Young and A.N. Evans, 'Psychovisually tuned attribute operators for pre-processing digital video', in IEE Journal of Vision and Image Signal Processing (VISP), 150(5), October 2003, pp. 277 -286.

N.Young and A.N. Evans, 'Spatio-temporal attribute morphology filters for noise reduction in image sequences', in Proceedings International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, September 2003.

N.Young and A.N. Evans, 'Digital video preprocessing with multi-dimensional attribute morphology', in Proceedings IEE Visual Information Engineering (VIE) Conference, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 7th ' 9th July 2003, pp. 89 - 92.

N.Young and A.N. Evans, 'Image Noise Reduction using Attribute Morphology Filters', in Proceedings IEEE EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Grado, Italy, June 2003.

N.Young and A.N. Evans, 'Psycho-visually tuned area-morphology tools for improved image compression', in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM), Manly, Sydney, Australia, pp. 185-195, April 2002.

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SKILLS:
* Operating System's:
o Windows (all versions, including server, to date)
o Mac OS X
o Linux (mostly Redhat and Fedora)
* Application Software:
o Microsoft Office (word, excel, powerpoint, outlook, publisher)
o AutoCAD
o Photoshop - Lightroom, Elements
o Smartdraw
* Programming languages:
o CSS, HTML and XHTML
o JavaScript
o PHP
o MySQL
o C and C++ including MFC
o Matlab

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CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS:
Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
Member of Institute for Learning (MIfL).

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