On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Jason Marshall <j_k_marshall_2...@live.com> wrote:
> Hi > > > My name is Jason Marshall. I am writing in order to introduce myself to > the project in the first instance. I am aiming to contribute to the > project from a development point of view, but would be interested in > helping with testing and documentation. I am from Newcastle Upon Tyne in > the United Kingdom and originally trained to degree level in Software > Engineering in 2001. I then went on to work for the internal software > house in British telecom for five years, which included roles such as > developer, component designer and a little simple solution design. I > worked heavily with extract, transform and load aspects of data > warehousing, coding in PLSQL and Ab Initio. I would also inherently write > Unix shell scripts, which I particularly enjoyed. I subsequently moved to > some design and made us of the Unified Modelling Language. I have had some > experience of ‘hot house' development. I also have experience with Java > and C++, as well as the usual skills with HTML. I enjoy writing and > working to document complex ideas so that they are accessible to everyone, > hence my interest in documentation. > > > I left IT in 2006 in order to retrain in a social science role and > currently work in such a role for local government. However, I am aware > that currently demand for IT professionals is high and I would like to > re-enter the profession and so hope to be able to refresh my skills and > experience, as well as giving something back and serving this project. I > have been a long-time user of OpenOffice, having first installed it when I > was handed a free CD by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Consequently, I have > used OpenOffice for many years. > > > Away from IT, I enjoy rowing, swimming and playing underwater hockey. I > also love world cinema, as well as travelling in Europe. > > > I am working through the orientation modules as well as embarking on the > building process; due to having a day job and also looking to build on > Windows 7 platform, this may take some time. > > > Kind regards > > > Jason Welcome Jason and thank you for this nice introduction. I'm sure ou can find help with building on Windows 7 from this "dev" list. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo." -- David Letterman