The car
The car featured in the video is a 1989 Vauxhall nova, as i have to drive 25 miles to work everyday i needed a fuel efficient car and unfortunately the old diesel golf wasn't as efficient as you would think. The car took 12 weeks to build from a bare shell as pictured
It had the whole engine bay sprayed with Zinc primer aswell as two new rear arches, then the whole car was sprayed Ferrari red. The engine that was put in was a 1.7 turbo diesel out of a Cavalier and a six speed gearbox that was taken from a Calibra turbo, which was all a feat in itself as i have only heard of one other nova that was built with this engine and gearbox, then 12 weeks later the car was looking like this:
Fabricating
My skills also extend to fabrication as i work as a Welder and Fabricator. It is not quite so easy getting examples of my work, but just by looking at google maps you can see some of the work i have accomplished. Pictured below is a shot from the video using "google streetview" it was taken on St Mary's way in Broughton near Chester. I was given the assignment of making the railings that surrounded the carpark, I made the railings from start to finish and even spray painted them, it took one week to complete this.
This was just one of the projects i have undertaken, in my employment i am requested to make gates, ladders, well pretty much anything that is requested of me. While at home i hobby weld, this includes welding cars for friends, MOT's or even other projects.
Software
Throughout the video I created there was an array of software I used to make the video with. Unfortunately i couldn't fit everything i have used on as it would make the video far too long. Throughout my use with Computer software i have gained knowledge of varying degrees of different software including
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7
- Linux Redhat, Fedora core and Suse
- Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash builder
- Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Publisher and Frontpage
Taken from the Video is also a speedtest to measure words per minute, obviously not having to work at a PC means my score isn't as good as it could be, but if someone was to come with me saying i could have an interview if i can produce 60WPM, then i would be back producing exactly that!
In the Video is an IQ test I completed just for the Video, obviously its sped up, and maybe years of welding rusty steel together has dulled my senses, I remember the time i could get a score of 115, but maybe a good nights sleep would cure that.
Here is the simple banner i made in Photoshop, I was going to use it as the Header banner, but decided not to as its it was a little too bright but boring.
Also taken from the Video is footage of web design, I don't think i need to insert a screenshot of this as this is the Website i created, which i then bought a domain name for and then hosted it on my own server at home.
Featured in the footage is me making the music for the Video, who knows? maybe theres a job out there for me there?
Hardware
From a young age i have always had a very keen interest in computer hardware, I have been working with computer hardware since our family got our first PC when i was 11 years old. I started working with hardware one day when i installed premiership manager 1998 after being asked not to put any games on our brand new PC, which promptly crashed the computers BIOS, of course being so young i didn't listen like most and wanted to fix it before anyone realised what i did! I then went on to delete any signs of the game being on the system by using delete and hidden folders.
At the age of 13 i was given my own PC, it was and old office computer running a 133MHZ processor and i started trying to get my PC faster anyway i could, whether this be taking parts off i didn't need, running less services getting parts friends we're no longer using and even buying second hand parts out of my paper round money!
By the time i was 14 the school Admin we're taking a keen interest in me after they caught me playing a game on one of thier pcs after i found a virtual CD-rom on thier main server, of course this game was supposedly inaccesible to anyone that wasn't sat on the main server PC, but from then on if they we're stuck i'd be asked what should be done, They'd never met a 14 year old that could hack thier entire system leaving no trace, unfortunately they upgraded the system to track everything as it was a security issue i could get into parts of the system even the teachers couldn't and i don't think they we're impressed i could log into any PC on the network as Admin.
After years of tinkering with peoples computers i got my first job, at this point i still had my old office PC which was now running the very first Athlon processor, 256MB Ram with a 40GB hard drive and at the time an impressive 32x CD-Rom, This quickly got upgraded as i had more money, The PC still had its old dated case which was only changed around 4 years ago to make space for a full size Motherboard, I still have that very rather different looking PC, its being used to build this website.
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