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Personal Details

Name Richard Rhodes
Email address contact@rhodso.com

GCSEs Passes
Maths
Computing
IT
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Music
English Language
English Literature
A-Levels
EPQ
IT
Computing
Physics
Degree
BSc Computer Science
First Class (Hons)

Technical Skills

Experienced with the following:
Languages: Python, C/C++, C#, Java, Shell
Familiar with the Unity Games Engine
Operating Systems: Arch Linux, Debian (and Debian based-distros, including Ubuntu), misc other Linux distros, Windows, Android
Game Engines: Unity, Godot
Office products: Microsoft Office and Google Suite
Hardware: PC hardware, Raspbery pi, Raspberry Pi GPIO, arduino
Familiar with the Valve Index and the HTC Vive VR headsets, in conjunction with SteamVR

Work experience

Current Employment:

PhD Student at Keele University
September 2020 - Present
I am not currently employed, as I am in the final stages of my PhD
If you would like to offer work, please contact using the above email address

Past Employment:

Demonstrator at Keele University
September 2020 - Febuary 2022
Including teaching, debugging, and communication expeicence

Employment Gap
March 2020 - September 2020
There was a pandemic that happend and I was finishing my degree
So that's why there's nothing here

Full stack developer at ICL Kidsgrove
August 2017 - March 2020
Including project management, planning, development, testing and installation experience.

Other positions:

Hack Keele Equipent Officer (2019-2021)
Elected equipment officer for hack Keele for 2 years running
My responsibilities include the acquisition, storage, and maintainance of society equipment.
I also organised and ran a 12 hour hackathon

Hack Keele President (2021-2023)
Elected president of Hack Keele for 2 years running
My responsibilities include the organisation of events, and the running of the society
I organised and ran several Hackathons during this time, including a 24 hour hackathon

Nerdkon Oranisational Committee (2022-2024)
I was a part of the organisational committee for Nerdkon 2022, a 2 day event held at Keele University
My responsibilities mainly included dealing with the technical aspects of the event

Other Experience

Hack Keele 2018 24 hour Hackathon Winner
As a part of a 2 person team, I won a 24 hour hackathon organised by Hack Keele
The project was to create a quiz for exam revision purposes that got harder the more
questions you got correct, and got easier if you got questions wrong

Interests

Programming, Gaming, Computer hardware
See my Github for projects I'm working on
Virtual Reality
IoT
Robotics
Video editing and production
Photography (I don't have a portfolio yet, but I may put one up in the future)

References

Available upon request