About Me James Cordon

Achievements

• Commissioned by Microsoft to create headline content for their 2021 Minecraft summer celebration sale, alongside colleagues. This project achieved several million sales in the first week.

• Received “Undergraduate Exceptional Achievement award 2017/18” for having fourth highest average grade in the first year.

• Awarded “Best Microsoft Azure Hack” prize at 2018 MLH Local Hack Day hackathon.

• Received “Computing & Media Faculty Award” in 2017, and Chair of Governors Award” in 2013.

Education

• Experience of using version control software (git, remote hosting on a GitLab server)
• Modules include Software Engineering, Functional Programming, Image Processing, Mobile Device Programming, Graphics, Compilers, and a Project-Based Dissertation

• 4 A Levels: Computer Science (A), Mathematics (A), Physics (B), and Further Mathematics (C)

• 10 GCSEs: 2 A*s, 3 As, 5 Bs
• Took on roles as a "Senior Student" and as Deputy Head Boy

Work Experience

• In my free time I am a member of RASA Studios, a Minecraft building and video production team
• Volunteering as a programmer (game logic and story sequences within our shows and maps)
• Volunteering as a video editor (editing vlogs, "let's play" videos and gameshow series)

• 24 hour hackathon hosted by the University of Nottingham's Hack Society
• Helping student hackers with debugging problems, checking attendees in, supervising throughout students during the event
• Also included the creation and open-sourcing of the event-wide display system (shows time remaining and messages from the organisers)

• 2020's event was held exclusively online, as gatherings were not allowed due to COVID-19
• Helping student hackers with debugging problems, ensuring attendees were polite and following chat rules
• Providing a welcoming atmosphere and helping others in the event's livestream chatroom

• Volunteer program to help first year students better understand the modules' content, and helping these students to settle into the university as a whole
• Assisting with "welcome week" activities within the School of Computer Science
• Collaborating with colleagues to run weekly and monthly "drop-in" sessions

Notable Projects

• Collaboration with colleagues at RASA Studios to create games based on those in the Noxsquad Gameshow, with the primary interaction between players being Discord chat commands
• Utilises Node.js, MongoDB (using Mongoose), and Discord.js
• More information available on the project page

• A collaborative video editing system conceived and developed during my final year studying Computer Science at the University of Nottingham
• Utilises Python, Flask, MongoDB, FFmpeg, and Bootstrap
• More information available on the project page

• A game project for the C++ module during my second year studying Computer Science at the University of Nottingham
• Utilises C++ and SDL, interacting with a custom framework created by the lecturer
• More information available on the project page

Skills